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Publisher
DK Publishing ; Smithsonian
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
More than 140 detailed maps tell the story of pivotal episodes in world history, from the first human migrations out of Africa to the space race. Custom regional and global maps present the history of the world in action, charting how events traced patterns on land and ocean--patterns of exploration, discovery, or conquest that created empires, colonies, or theaters of war. Thoughtful organization of information will help you follow the story of...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Geography plays one of the most important roles in a civilization's development, and this holds true for the ancient Greeks. But it is the Greek experiments in government that drove much of their success. Tour the ancient Greek city-states of Athens, Sparta, and more to find out how they were governed, and how they dealt with conflicts.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
We can envision scenarios for the year 2100, but what about 2600? Or 3100? Reflect on the possibilities, drawing from the imaginative work of futurists and science fiction writers. See where human civilization might go - and what might happen to us along the way - on this planet, or in the universe, as Homo sapiens, or even as some future species.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism,...
Author
Publisher
BarCharts, Inc.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The perfect study tool for students in a World History course or for any history buff's collection. A timeline covering the utmost critical points, events, figures, cultural migrations and destructions that led to the formation of the world of today. Part 1 of a series, this guide covers the earliest humans through establishing links of a globalized world. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This book illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system is the prevalence of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins, which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers. In this way, Arabian...
Author
Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This is the history of the world, from the origins of the Cosmos to the present day, seen through three major narratives: work, sex and power - the forces that have done more than any other to shape the world as we see it now. ↵ ↵ It expertly explores the foundations of our developing society by showing how these grand themes have recurred throughout the various phases of global history. From communities of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, through...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sub-Saharan Africa has often been overlooked by outside historians who are considering the rise of human civilization, yet nations such as Mali and Ghana and the Bantu and Swahili civilizations all have a rich and fascinating history. Survey the story of Africa with a special focus on sub-Saharan geography, people, and civilizations.
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Series
Publisher
Stock
Pub. Date
1990
Language
Français
Description
An eccentiric, playfully skewed, surprisingly comprehensive chronicle of life on planet Earth. A novel whose threads of coincidence and hidden connection are woven into a narrative tapestry brilliant with wit, intelligence, and emotion.
13) World History 2
Author
Publisher
BarCharts, Inc.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The perfect study tool for students in a World History course or for any history buff's collection. A timeline covering the utmost critical points, events, figures, cultural migrations and destructions that led to the formation of the world of today. Part 2 of a series, this guide covers the foundations of European empires through the modern multipolar world. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
'History as you've never seen it before.' Dan Snow'A wonderful, eclectic and entertaining history of everything, full of fascinating, surprising stories.' Suzannah LipscombDid you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And who knew that Heinrich Himmler, Tutankhamun and the history of needlework are...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field. The forty-four articles in this book take stock of the history, evolving literature, and current trajectories of new world history. These essays, together with the editors' introductions to thematic chapters, encourage educators and students to reflect critically on the development of the field and to...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This authoritative work provides an essential perspective on terrorism by offering a rare opportunity for analysis and reflection at a time of ongoing violence, threats, and reprisals. Some of the best international specialists on the subject examine terrorism's complex history from antiquity to the present day and find that terror, long the weapon of the weak against the strong, is a tactic as old as warfare itself. Beginning with the Zealots of...
Author
Publisher
My Ebook Publishing House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Atlantis - Legend or History? reveals our the theories as never before! Have you ever wondered if the Atlantis was about a real thing?This short book, looks at many facts, assumptions and theories and looks to draw a correlation between what is known, what is logical and what may be the truth that so many want to deny. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern and modern world history: population...
Author
Publisher
Leiden University Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This volume charts the history of the discipline through twenty-five in-depth conversations with historians whose work has shaped the field of world history in fundamental ways. These conversations, which took place over a period of twenty years for the world history journal Itinerario, cover these historians' lives, work, and views of the academy in general and the field of world history in particular. An extensive introduction distills the most...
20) 1968
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
1968 was the year when humans first glimpsed the far side of the Moon, but also the year the world was shocked by assassination, by the crushing of hope for reform and by wars that showed no sign of ever ending. To the old there seemed too much change, too quickly, with youth in revolt, though against what no one was entirely sure . . . 'Hey Jude', sang the Beatles, with a refrain that lingered long into the summer night, 'Don't make it bad, take...
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