Concise History of World Population, Paperback - Massimo Livi Bacci

The latest edition of this classic text has been updated to reflect current trends and implications for future demographic developments. The areas ...

The arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought with it a demographic catastrophe of vast proportions for the native populations. In this book Liv...

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The new Concise edition of A History of World Societies offers an accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to so...

The new Concise edition of A History of World Societies offers an accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to so...

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This lively synthesis of global history since the end of World War II offers a gripping account of an interdependent world and the challenges facin...

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A Concise History of Bolivia - Herbert S. Klein

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Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal ...

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A Concise History of Australia - Professor Stuart Macintyre

The latest from Massimo Vitali, master portraitist of the beach and the discoThis large-format volume, collecting images from 2009 to 2018, is the ...

This concise volume reviews the literature on population history, and explains the different population trends evident in parts of Britain and Irel...

Now in an updated edition, The Human Journey offers a truly concise yet satisfyingly full history of the world from 1450 to today. Presenting world...

In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human fac...

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A Concise History of Switzerland - Clive H. Church, Randolph C. Head

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A challenge to the hegemony of perspective: investigations into other forms of representation used by different cultures over the last two thousand...

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"Published in collaboration with the Ca nada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies, London School of Economics"--Verso title page.

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