Civilization

An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected. The early first millennium BCE marks one of the most culturally diverse periods in the history of the eastern...

This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our...

In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of...

Sheba, or Saba, is a region of high mountains and vast deserts situated in the southwest of the Arabian peninsula, in what is known today as Yemen. The mysteries and riches of Sheba and its people enticed the likes of Alexander the Great, the Emperor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812988277Author Martin PuchnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism provides an international, intersectional, and interdisciplinary overview of, and approach to, Pan-Africanism, making an invaluable contribution to the ongoing evolution of Pan-Africanism and demonstrating its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982114749Author Roland EnnosFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143132516Author John Lewis GaddisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806521893Author John G JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 337g

Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker's highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike. In this provocative volume, a...

A compelling evolutionary narrative that reveals how human civilization follows the same ecological rules that shape all life on Earth Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark...

From the third century A.D. until the 1920s, the ancient city of Dura, which the Greeks called Europos, lay covered by the sands of time. Today, hardly a book that touches on the ancient Eastern Mediterranean or on the development of art and religion in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062868053Author Dan CarlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 249g

Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War. By isolating one factor among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983710271Author Simha SerayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Manakael MasterworksPublisher Manakael MasterworksWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm)...

The Mesopotamians invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean Bottero attempts to go back to the moment which marks the very beginning of history. To give the reader some sense of...

Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the...

For much of the twentieth century, Americans saw their nation as part of a shared Western civilization rooted in European Enlightenment ideals of liberty and self-government and the heritage of classical Greece and Rome. And for much of the century, a...

Explorers from Marco Polo to Captain John Smith viewed their travels and discoveries in the light of attitudes they absorbed from the literature of medieval knighthood. Their own accounts, and contemporary narratives [reinforced by the interest of early...

Interweaving media theory and historical analysis, this book explores the effect new digital-telecommunication technologies, which Deibert calls hypermedia, will have on the distribution of political power in the next century. Deibert tracks the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250787354Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 137g

Esarhaddon, King of Assyria continues Josette Elayi's narrative journey through the lives of the kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Using both archaeological and textual evidence, Elayi examines the contentious circumstances surrounding Esarhaddon's...

How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780593534342Author Ed ConwayFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint...

European history is deeply embedded in the global civilization that has emerged in the 21st century. More than two thirds of today's nations were once European colonies or protectorates. Europe's legacy is evident in the trajectory of the United States...

The civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia flourished between 3300 BC and 2000 BC in the southern half of the lands between and to either side of the Tigris and Euphrates, where a vast grain harvest (about equal to Canada's today) supported a large and...

Western civilization fashioned a capitalism that created a worldwide economic cornucopia and higher standards of living than any other system, yet its legitimacy is often questioned by its beneficiaries. Boston University Emeritus Professor Angelo M...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122067Author Niall FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm...

The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth...

Debating the development of civilization in Egypt and Greece, this collection of essays explores European misconceptions of African history. Featuring contributions from some of the top scholars in African American studies, this book analyzes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679766698Author David FromkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617590023Author Leo WienerFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint EworldPublisher EworldWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm * 20mm

Trouble in the West provides the first full and continuous account of the Persian-Egyptian War, a conflict that continued for nearly the two-hundred-year duration of the Persian Empire. Despite its status as the largest of all ancient Persian military...

When Julius Caesar first brought the giraffe to Europe, the stunned Romans called it "camelopardalis," as a cross between a camel and a leopard? That the Medici organized hunts with cheetahs and staged animal combats in the Roman style? That Josephine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761353799Author Martha E.H. RustardFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Lerner BooksPublisher Lerner Publishing Group

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593734223Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 819g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978771317Author Claire NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 347g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983186649Author Andrew StromFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint The-Revolution.NetPublisher The-Revolution.NetWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983051770Author Ralph Herman AbrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Epigraph PublishingPublisher Epigraph PublishingWeight(grams) 222g