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The Moche civilization was created by the people who lived in the arid coastal regions of Northern Peru from around AD 100 to AD 700. This civilization had long been known for the great mud-brick pyramids that tower over the river valleys, for the...

The collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors, representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the international community, reacted to colonialism during the...

Race, Nation, and Capital in the Modern World is a comprehensive yet concise survey that traces the history of racism, nationalism and capitalism from their combined origins at the end of the 15th century to the present. This book describes the...

This book takes a global historical perspective to trace the rise of human rights and their global impact from the 18th century to the present. This fully updated volume examines the complex relationships between Western concepts of human rights and...

Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce. Commerce as a keyword encompasses a wide range of documented and...

Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial relations at different points in time and around the globe. ...

The 1870s is a key decade in the evolution of British thinking about the nature, purpose, and future of empire. Increasing economic competition began to disturb the complacent assumption about Britain's leadership in technology and in the world economy...

This book is a comprehensive, thematic survey of the history of education throughout the world, from ancient times to the present day. Education in World History analyzes patterns of religious and cultural influence in classical societies, as well as the...

Modern Travel in World History uses three themes - technology, mass movements, and travellers - to examine the history of the modern world from the fifteenth-century transatlantic explorations to the impact of the global COVID pandemic of the 21st...

Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and...

Based on extensive research in several international contexts, this volume provides a nuanced assessment of the historical evolution of private security and its fluid, contested and mutually constitutive relationship with state agencies, public policing...

Some events more than others have changed the pace and determined the direction that history has taken along its rugged path. Inconsistencies that are not always clearly evident occur much more frequently when the events of humanity speed up. Such was...

Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market before 1700. Each chapter analyses the unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569022948Author Mana Saeed Al-OtaibaFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 443g

Threatened Knowledge discusses the practices of knowing, not-knowing, and not wanting to know from the middle ages to the twentieth century. In times of 'fake news', processes of forgetting and practices of non-knowledge have sparked the interest...

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has...

Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism provides a comprehensive history of the Comite mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (CMF), an international women's organisation concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and...

People use concepts such as time and date to structure their lives on a daily basis. They often measure their travel by marking points arranged along great circles on the globe. Yet most do not understand the origin and history of these terms and the...

"This is a tour de force of sophisticated global erudition." -Filippo de Vivo, University of Oxford, UK"In its wide global range and rich variety of studies, this expertly edited volume provides an unprecedented view into the scribal practices of...

Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "The King is Listening" offers, through the contribution of thirteen original chapters, a sustained analysis of judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French overseas...

This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern period. Cosmopolitanism is not only a philosophical ideal: for many centuries it has also been an everyday...

What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of colonial rule? How does secularism comport with local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353976491Author E H DavenportFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989743089Author R H TawneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Binker NorthPublisher Binker NorthWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241599522Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241038694Author William NuttallFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241222017Author Benjamin Ward RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240920990Author Frederick William HackwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

"...a highly readable and structured discussion about utopian thinking at the beginning of the 21st century ...It is indeed fortunate that political scientists, historians, philosophers, art critics, and literary theorists have come together to...

Learn about the origins of our species and all things revolution in The History Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about History in this overview guide to...

A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption, from the nineteenth century to today, through the fascinating story of one commodity. Divides the...

This book breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It reconfigures the Indian Ocean as a space for conceptual and theoretical relationality based on social science and humanities...

Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387301171Author Henry FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241446659Author Thomas Kelly CheyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

In addition to a clear, engaging survey of the Christian crusades to the Holy Lands, this book offers an overview of the many contemporary campaigns against non-Christians throughout Europe and the Middle East. Seventeen biographical sketches of key...

The object of this book is explain the relation between the Jews and the nations around them in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. The author addresses problems and challenges of mutual life in mixed communities as well as cultural differences...

There is a myth-easily shattered-that Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between individuals and groups, and another-too readily accepted-that before the rise of secularism in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603646Author Roderick BeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books