Globalization in World History, Paperback

King's frequent subject of the rise of the East and declining market confidence of the West is pitched in relation to globalization in this timely ...

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The second edition of this concise survey offers a comparative and comprehensive study of culinary cultures and food politics throughout the world,...

Reducere. From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its future Globalization has profoundly shaped t...

"Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soo...

Globalization is speeding up our world, extending our relationships globally and bringing us closer together in positive and not-so-positive ways. ...

The story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today's globally integrated economy possible.Th...

In this definitive study of the African diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and i...

Trump. Brexit. The alt-right. It's increasingly apparent that old political notions--believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history--are now re...

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In A History of Diplomacy Black shows how a form of courtly negotiation and information-gathering developed through increasing globalization into a...

CATCH THE EXPRESS TO SUCCESS WITH FAST TRACK: WORLD HISTORY Covering the most important global material taught in high school history class, Fast T...

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DescriptionThis book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern ...

Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes ...

Contributor(s): Author: Sebastian ConradUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globa...

Now in its fifth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors...

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Reducere. Responding to the need to take a fresh look at world history, hitherto dominated by Eurocentric ideologues and historians in their attempt to justi...

DescriptionHow competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalismDuring and after the Second World War, pub...

This innovative textbook demystifies the subject of world history through a diverse range of case studies. Each chapter looks at an event, person, ...

Globalization affects every aspect of our lives, from what we buy to what we eat to what we study-and the study of design history is no exception. ...

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Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, Europe and the People Without History deftl...

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Reducere. In Near a Thousand Tables, acclaimed food historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary hi...

In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant ...

From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the protesters in the "Battle of Seattle" and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have long been ...

Reducere. Indigenous societies throughout Latin America are facing difficult choices. After centuries of colonization, the ongoing struggle to preserve commu...

The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-li...

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DescriptionThis is a short and trenchant history of the organizations--the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and Group of Seven--that have promoted economic gl...

A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad e...

Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is essential reading for anyone interested in film. Providing accessible coverage of a comprehensive range of genr...

Description'This is essential reading for anybody interested in global history.' --Professor Ugo Panizza, The Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzer...

The conquest of the Americas inaugurated the slow accumulation of resources and the imperceptible structural transformations that culminated in the...

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International Relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century, but its philosophic foundations draw on centuries...

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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...

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Reducere. Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it...

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions...

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Migration is a politically sensitive topic and an important aspect of contentious debates about social and cultural diversity, economic stability, ...

Reducere. During the second half of the Twentieth Century, the ideas of leading anarchist thinkers such as Proudhon, Bakunin, and Kropotkin seemed destined t...

DescriptionElaborate costumes, intricate patterns, and striking figural forms fill the work of Yinka Shonibare, a world-renowned artist who has roo...

The Taste of Conquest offers up a riveting, globe-trotting tale of unquenchable desire, fanatical religion, raw greed, fickle fashion, and mouthwat...

Reducere. The interfaith movement, which began with the 1893 Worlds Parliament of Religions in Chicago, has grown worldwide. Although this movement has been ...

Reducere. In a world of increasing globalization, we live amidst a clash of cultures, religions, and worldviews - each battling for the human heart and mind....

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Crossing social, cultural, and religious barriers and making disciples of all nations has probably never been without some level of controversy. Th...

Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a...

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Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingl...