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Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great...

Visions of Victory, first published in 2005, explores the views of eight leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt. He compares their visions of the future in the...

This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319048785Author Laurent DuboisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan LearningDimensions(mm) 210mm * 141mm * 36mm

A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and...

Here is an intellectual extravaganza, a dazzling history of the key institutions that have shaped and channeled knowledge in the West from the classical period to the present. Fashioned with elegance and wit, this exhilarating survey carries us through...

The first book of its kind, this richly informative and comprehensive guide to the world of late antiquity offers the latest scholarship to the researcher along with great reading pleasure to the browser. In eleven comprehensive essays and in over 500...

This innovative and user-friendly workbook, now combined into a single volume organized chronologically, guides students and instructors through the ideas and methods of world history. Designed to be used either as a stand-alone text or as a companion to...

The first half of the twentieth century was of one of the most turbulent periods in Europe's history. While social theorists challenged orthodox ways of thinking about the establishment of a "good society," scientists offered up new visions of the...

Explaining how nations and narratives have been the products of transnational, cross-border forces of migration and cultural exchange, this open access volume presents a global history of the basic ideas that govern our understanding of the modern world...

Shifts the conversation from abstract “global warming” to the deeply human impacts of heat—and how our efforts to keep cool have made the problem worse. Despite the flames of record-breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully...

Across Colonial Lines takes a multi-perspective approach to the study of empire and commodities, and encourages readers to look at commodity histories in alternative spatial and temporal contexts. It offers a comparative understanding of commodities in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888528653Author Geoffrey C GunnFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889421573Author James JohonnotFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 408g

“Cornwall has for centuries been the source of migrants to all parts of the world. This has generated a broad literature on Cornish emigration and the Cornish abroad, much of it concentrated on the better-known destinations of the USA, Australia, and...

The World Cup as World History uses football's premier event to analyze modern sports and world history. William D. Bowman traces the history of a tournament that has become a global phenomenon that generates intense political, economic, and cultural...

In 1716, the French diplomat and author Francois de CalliEres published the treatise "De la Maniere de negocier avec les souverainsoan outstandingly successful manual of advice for diplomats, perhaps the best of its kind ever written. It has become the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888303191Author John Dos PassosFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 200g

A unique peak into the lives of women authors like Abigail Adams, Aphra Behn, and Mary Wollstonecraft.Book InformationISBN 9780847675562Author Janet ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786466870Author Brian BonhommeFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197762271Author Eli RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 499g

Volume 22, Diversity, is a special volume in the new series of Medievalia et Humanistica, focusing on the diversity of voices in medieval and early Renaissance literature. Six original articles explore themes of law, art, and piety at all levels of...

Instructors have made Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the #1-selling collegiate survey because its global-by-design narrative builds each chapter around big themes in world history that allow most of the regions to be discussed in each chapter while...

The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and locality, whose lives collectively span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their stories...

How History Was Used in the Wars of the Twentieth Century: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace looks at how historical thinking shaped decisions for war and peace in Germany and the United States during the twentieth century. It examines the writing and...

First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. Now largely taken for granted, the exchange resonates in multiple ways even today. Offering a "metageography"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889421566Author James JohonnotFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 245g

This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Miller argue that people, rather than markets,...

Instructors have made Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the #1-selling collegiate survey because its global-by-design narrative builds each chapter around big themes in world history that allow most of the regions to be discussed in each chapter while...

Instructors have made Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the #1-selling collegiate survey because its global-by-design narrative builds each chapter around big themes in world history that allow most of the regions to be discussed in each chapter while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083441Author Ian GoldinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 22mm

A documentary history of modern Europe.Book InformationISBN 9780819108470Author John BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of AmericaWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666944990Author Sheila FitzpatrickFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958890615Author William T BeranFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Booklocker.comPublisher Booklocker.comWeight(grams) 277g

A truly definitive work, this magisterial study draws on the latest evidence from across Europe to show in exhaustive detail the nature of the disease, its origin, spread, mortality, and its profound impact on history. The Black Death was a disaster of...

Pindar's victory songs teem with divinity. By exploring them within the lived religious landscapes of the fifth century BCE, Hanne Eisenfeld demonstrates that they are in fact engaged in theological work. Focusing on a set of mythical figures whose...

Lena Kolberg was just one of the two million German civilians who fled from East Prussia at the end of the Second World War. She and her family left Memelland, the farthest province of East Prussia, in the bitterly cold winter of 1945. Letters from Lena...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319049034Author Lynn HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Bedford BooksPublisher Bedford BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960326409Author Ken BoutwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Parson's PorchPublisher Parson's PorchWeight(grams) 395g