Dynamics of World History, Paperback

Reducere. Harvard professor Dawson (1889-1970) was a major Catholic historian. His 1958 tome has fallen out of favor among historians at least partly because...

This book-ideal for African and world history classes, as well as for potential travelers to the continent-takes readers on a journey through the d...

DescriptionThis book proposes a new way of understanding events throughout the world that are usually interpreted as democratization, rising author...

Reducere. William F. Milliken's handling research is fundamental to modern automobile design, and his definitive books on vehicle dynamics provide engineers ...

Have Western intelligence experts fundamentally failed to understand the dynamics, leaders and culture of the Middle East? Using the most recently ...

Vickers present previously unpublished essays that offer new perspectives on the underlying nature of pan-Albanianism, its aspirations and the post...

Contributor(s): Author: Carl Von ClausewitzTranslator: Michael Eliot HowardTranslator: Peter ParetOn War is the most significant attempt in Western...

The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking o...

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

DescriptionThe history of coffee is much more than the tale of one luxury good--it is a lens through which to consider various strands of world his...

Healer and clairvoyant Zorah Cholmondeley seeks to revolutionize the way we view our gardens and the natural world. Introducing the fairy realms, s...

Reducere. War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambr...

Reducere. The Oral tradition has been maintained since time immemorial. In this age of science and technology, they are now being preserved for posterity. Ib...

The phrase ``silk road`` evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental...

Reducere. Combining history, archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics, Bantu Africa: 3500 BCE to Present, synthesizes current scholarship on one of the mos...

Reducere. In The Principal Contradiction, Torkil Lauesen introduces readers to the philosophy of dialectical materialism as a tool for changing the world. Di...

Contributor(s): Author: Norman M. NaimarkGenocide occurs in every time period and on every continent. Using the 1948 U.N. definition of genocide as...

This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matt...

Reducere. ..". remarkable... " Foreign Affairs..". illuminates the workings of institutionalized racism through the correspondence of three South African wom...

DescriptionA classic book on the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg's work with essays of political analysis by leading scholars As an advocate of social dem...

Description Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world autho...

Just like the Gutenberg revolution in the fifteenth century, which led to the emergence of non-conventional religious authority in the Christian wo...

For a time, it seemed that a great storehouse of women's treasure had been forever lost; the stories of heroines who had awoken to the call to adve...

Reducere. In this book, theologian Letty Russell redefines the commonly held notion of hospitality as she challenges her readers to consider what it means to...

DescriptionIt is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world--a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. B...

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Reducere. Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of par...

States routinely and readily exploit the grey area between sentiments of national affinity and hegemonic emotions geared to nationalist aggression....

Reducere. Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analy...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frederick EarlsteinDementia is one of the most prevalent syndromes prevalent today, and yet scientific and medical knowledg...

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Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the poli...

DescriptionCapitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history...

Reducere. How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade sp...

Reducere. This book starts with an overlap of the period from 1963 to 1975, described in final chapters of the "Inside History of the USAF Lightweight Fighte...

Reducere. How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thaila...

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In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the b...

If now in decline since the tumultuous events of 1989, communism was without doubt the great political movement of the twentieth century--at its pe...

Reducere. Reluctant Reformers explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major demo...

Reducere. From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously rese...

Contributor(s): Author: Philippe BourgoisPhilippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical accla...

Reducere. DescriptionBuilding the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedr...

Reducere. DescriptionOn February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia....

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