Global History of History, Paperback - Daniel Woolf

A global history of historical writing and thought from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, u...

DescriptionThis short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject as part of courses on the historian's ...

This short history of history is an ideal introduction for courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. It s...

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of "historic" events have become world rituals which, according to Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz...

A new global history of slavery from ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present day.

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Alex WoolfNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 234 x 278 x 27Cover type: Paperback / ...

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Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extr...

Reducere. The growth of the modern world urban system is the greatest episode of urban growth there has ever been, but it is not the first. Three thousand ye...

DescriptionIn our architectural pursuits, we often seem to be in search of something newer, grander, or more efficient--and this phenomenon is not ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the summer of 1864, Georgia was the scene of one of the most important campaigns of the Civil War. William Tecumseh Sherman's push so...

DescriptionCompassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human hist...

The American Revolution is universally seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from th...

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensu...

DescriptionThe final book in the trilogy of exciting historical thrillers, The Shakespeare Plot The year is 1605. Alice and Richard Fletcher, and t...

DescriptionMany people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their mod...

Reducere. DescriptionThe studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using li...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...

Reducere. Richard Davenport-Hines examines how licit medicines developed into a huge illegal business. Drawing on evidence from different continents and cult...

DescriptionThe long siege of Troy, the battles fought over it, and the city's eventual capitulation and incineration are events which have often be...

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The first global study of the distinctive Korean soju beverage. Tracing the history of soju from the premodern world to the twenty-first century, H...

Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the presen...

Reducere. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of contempo...

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Reducere. As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco...

Reducere. This book provides evidence which makes it clear that most religious history is not what we think it is. It lets you see the true heritage that has...

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Reducere. DescriptionMost Dangerous is the award-winning nonfiction account of an ordinary man who wielded the most dangerous weapon: the truth. In 1964, Dan...

DescriptionA global history of restaurants beyond white tablecloths and ma tre d's, Dining Out presents restaurants both as businesses and as venue...