India in the World Economy. From Antiquity to the Present, Paperback - ***

In a journey spanning 2, 000 years, this book describes the ties of trade, migration and investment between India and the rest of the world, showin...

Reducere. Treats the Pantheon from the unique perspective of its construction history, survival, and reception through history.

Explores Jewish women's lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. The volume focus...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Women Artists in History from Antiquity to the Present introduces students to the many ways in which women have participated in the visual cultures...

Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this comprehensive book surveys Korean history from Neo...

Reducere. Hermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society - from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, for...

Reducere. Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater dest...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and pra...

Reducere. This unprecedented work is the first one-volume study of the history of Christianity in Africa. Written by Elizabeth Isichei, a leading scholar in ...

Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.

Ranging from ancient to contemporary sculpture, this book is the first study of the history of sculpture to present such an original and comprehens...

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be s...

aeo Highly original and innovative account of the history of humour through the ages from Antiquity to the present day. aeo Includes accounts of jo...

Reducere. A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today. From the development of internat...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 392Collection: Modern South AsiaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 242 x 162 x 28Cover type: ...

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

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Johanna DruckerIllustration(s): 100 halftonesNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. For thousands of years pirates, privateers, and seafaring raiders have terrorized the ocean voyager and coastal inhabitant, plundering ship and sho...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): Jessica RichardsonIllustration(s): 240 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 380Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?

Reducere. Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle's works comprise a ver...

Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. This wide-ranging work...

The Economy of Modern India: From 1860 to the Twenty-First Century - B. R. Tomlinson

Reducere. DescriptionIn the three decades since New York City's Stonewall rebellion, gay literature has exploded as a distinctive form of cultural expression...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 21Cover type: Pap...

The first textbook covering the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution. Providing students of all backgrounds with the...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksAuthor(s): Eleonora RohlandNumber of pages: 252Collection: Environment in History: International PerspectivesPublication d...

This book offers a general introduction to historical sources in the history of psychiatry, delving into the range of sources that can be used to i...

The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...

Reducere. China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship...

DescriptionA history of female combatants, from those who joined the military disguised as men to the current role of women in the armed forces.In ...

This work explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battegrounds between forces of good and evil. ...

Reducere. This readable survey on the history of missions tells the story of pivotal turning points in the expansion of Christianity, enabling readers to gra...

Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-...

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

Rapid economic growth has put India at the centre of current debates about the future of the global economy. In this fully revised and updated text...

Reducere. DescriptionThis engrossing anthology gathers together a remarkable collection of writings on the use of strategy in war. G rard Chaliand has ranged...

Explores how ancient and late antique Christianity traveled through Asia by examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antiq...

From an author who has spent four decades in the quest for lost ships, this lavishly illustrated history of naval warfare presents the latest archa...