Mexico in World History, Paperback - William H. Beezley

Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley provides a dr...

Featuring a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porf...

Reducere. After Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, it began the work of forging its identity as an independent nation, a process that would e...

Reducere. Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosi...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Paul (Professor of History, Professor of History, Clark University) RoppIllustration(s): 20 black ...

A second view holds that globalisation has a long history that can be traced back to the nineteenth century, if not earlier. First, it offers a cat...

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Now in its second edition, Agriculture in World History presents a unique exploration of farmers and farming, and their relationships to non-farmer...

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

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Modern Travel in World History uses three themes - technology, mass movements, and travellers - to examine the history of the modern world from the...

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Empires--vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition--have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. E...

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

Reducere. DescriptionIn the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negativel...

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Reducere. This book explores how world historical processes, from changes in environment to the movement of peoples and ideas, have shaped and continue to sh...

During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of ...

DescriptionWhy was religion so important for rulers in the pre-modern world? And how did the world come to be dominated by just a handful of religi...

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Reducere. Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History provides a wide-ranging examination of war in human history, from the beginning of t...

In 1868, samurai radicals overthrew the last shogun in the name of ancient Japanese ways. Then they took an opposite course, building a modern Japa...

In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both side...

Contributor(s): Author: Tonio AndradeThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries befo...

Reducere. New Mexico has the 4th highest bird diversity of any state in the U.S. with nearly 550 species documented within its borders including over 300 spe...

Reducere. In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney t...

Reducere. Could something as simple and seemingly natural as falling into step have marked us for evolutionary success? In Keeping Together in Time one of th...

The answer is a tale of operatic proportions, sweeping across continents from the 1848 European revolutions to the civil wars in Mexico and the USA...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul HorganWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1954)Winner of the Bancroft Prize in History (1954) Winner of both the...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Choi (California State University, Los Angeles, USA) ChatterjeeIllustration(s): 11 bw illu...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Choi (California State University, Los Angeles, USA) ChatterjeeIllustration(s): 11 bw illu...

Reducere. DescriptionPaula Morton provides a fun, concise introduction to jai alai, a fast-paced ball game with ancient roots that is admired by fans for the...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Peter N. (George Mason University) StearnsNumber of pages: 220Collection: Themes in World HistoryPublicat...