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Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution...

The term "soft power" was coined in 1990 to foreground a capacity in statecraft analogous to military might and economic coercion: getting others to want what you want. Emphasizing the magnetism of values, culture, and communication, this...

Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront...

Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences...

Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia,...

Richard W. Bulliet has long been a leading figure in the study of human-animal relations, and in his newest work, Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, he offers a sweeping and engaging perspective on this dynamic relationship from prehistory to the present...

In the parade of highlights with which many have tried to sum up the twentieth century, the overarching patterns and fundamental transformations often fail to come into focus. The Columbia History of the 20th Century, however, is much more than a...

This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born...

Between 1880 and 1914, tens of thousands of men and women left France for distant religious missions, driven by the desire to spread the word of Jesus Christ, combat Satan, and convert the world's pagans to Catholicism. But they were not the only ones...

Current debates on Turkish foreign policy flamed by Turkey's purchase of S-400 air defense systems from Russia throws into question Turkey-US relations and poses a challenge to Turkey's membership in NATO, which has been regarded as the most important...

Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's place of birth or naturalization determines where he or she can and cannot be and what he or she can and cannot do. Although this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312622978Author Rudolph BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Bedford BooksPublisher Bedford BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062944788Author Dan CarlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Newbury House Publishers,U.S.Publisher Newbury House Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 318g

The explosion of new themes and working areas in social sciences in the aftermath of the Cold-War stimulated the 'cultural turn' of the previous decades and strengthened the position of the notion of 'civilisation' as a unit of analysis and locus of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933823461Author Willem FloorFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 774g

The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outer world. Yet there is a...

A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of...

Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and an analysis of how debates have changed in light of recent key events such as the Black Lives Matter movement.Primarily focused on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541704510Author Goalhanger PodcastsFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 599g

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, thousands of pupils attended boarding schools in various places across the globe. Their experiences were vastly different, yet they all had in common that they were separated from their families and childhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062938343Author Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603080Author Dr Kit HeyamFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Seal Press (CA)Publisher Seal Press (CA)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780968580370Author Michael B. DavieFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Manor House Publishing IncPublisher Manor House Publishing IncWeight(grams) 142g

In this first detailed comparison of the workings and effects of slavery in two New World colonies, Herbert Klein dramatically confirms formerly untested theories about institutional differences in Latin American and North American slavery. He explains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247571Author Kevin CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Medievalists have long considered topics of cultural contact such as antagonism or exchange between western Europe and the Islamic world, the west's debts to Byzantium, European expansion during the Crusades, and Mediterranean trade. Medieval Cultures in...

Medievalists have long considered topics of cultural contact such as antagonism or exchange between western Europe and the Islamic world, the west's debts to Byzantium, European expansion during the Crusades, and Mediterranean trade. Medieval Cultures in...

For the English speaking reader of today, Ranke is surprisingly inaccessible; indeed, he has become something of a patron saint, more praised than read. Now all his major works have been translated, while almost none of his letters, notes, or essays, so...

In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and...

Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the...

Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the history of revolutions during the interwar period and of the fundamental conflict between Trotsky and Stalin. James, who was a leading Trotskyist...

Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries. While scholars have long recognized the importance of...

Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: for example,...

The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the...

Covering early societies, the classical, postclassical, and modern periods, and the 20th century, and blending the great advances in historical research over the past quarter century, Experiencing World History represents an important addition to the...

An intensive introduction to global social history themes, covering early societies to the 20th century Covering early societies, the classical, postclassical, and modern periods, and the 20th century, and blending the great advances in historical...

A comparative, post-colonial exploration of how the collectivities of the New World became nationsBook InformationISBN 9780773532137Author Gerard BouchardFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's...

The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. As United States imperialism becomes a popular focus of debate, we must understand how empire, the nineteenth century's dominant form...

In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings...

Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World examines the wide variety of social and cultural networks that emerged from the global exchanges of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emily Rosenberg shows how transnational connections were being...