World History 91

Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Bu……続きを見る

From “an eye for an eye” to debates over capital punishment, humanity has a long and controversial relationship with doling out justice for criminal acts. Today, crime and punishment remain signific……続きを見る

Sajarah Saben negara sak donya ing Jawa kang goal iku kanggo isi pikiran karo prasaja kawruh sajarah karo ebook . Ing ebook gampang digunakake, sumilir lan dijamin dadi macem ! Sampeyan bisa maca ik……続きを見る

Histórie v každej krajine po celom svete v Slovenčine si kladie za cieľ vyplniť svoju myseľ s jednoduchým historického poznania s týmto ebook . Ebook je ľahko ovládateľný , osviežujúci a je zaručené……続きを見る

Everything Explained That Is Explainable is the audacious, utterly improbable story of the publication of the Eleventh Edition of the legendary Encyclopædia Britannica. It is the tale of a young Ame……続きを見る

Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome is an investigation of Renaissance diplomacy in practice. Presenting the first book-length study of this subject for sixty years, Catherine Fletcher substantially enhan……続きを見る

This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars, where countless future leaders of Third World countries spent formative stints. E……続きを見る

O entendimento da história mundial se transforma à medida que novas descobertas são feitas em todos os continentes e velhos preconceitos são desafiados. Nessa jornada verdadeiramente global, Andrew ……続きを見る

A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption, from the nineteenth century to today, through the……続きを見る

Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation ……続きを見る

British imperial encounters with indigenous cultures created perceptions and stereotypes that still persist today. The initial creation of racial images in relation to violence had particular conseq……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la Résistance durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale en moins d’une heure ! Le 1er septembre 1939, l’Allemagne envahit la Pologne, déclenchant la Seconde Gue……続きを見る

When we hear the term “child soldiers,” most Americans imagine innocent victims roped into bloody conflicts in distant war-torn lands like Sudan and Sierra Leone. Yet our own history is filled with ……続きを見る

The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twen……続きを見る

Did Marco Polo reach China? This richly illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell as……続きを見る

In Aging in World History, David G. Troyansky presents the first global history of aging. At a time when demographic aging has become a source of worldwide concern, and more people are reaching an a……続きを見る

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This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world ……続きを見る

In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern worl……続きを見る

Der beliebte Geschichtsklassiker mit wunderbaren farbigen Illustrationen von Kat Menschik So fesselnd wie ein Roman, so kenntnisreich wie eine Enzyklopädie: Ernst H. Gombrich, einem der herausragend……続きを見る

Is the West in Decline? is a collection of ten essays by prominent scholars of international relations and current history, many of them associated with the European Studies program of the Johns Hop……続きを見る

Les portraits de six icones hollywoodiennes, par la plume ciselée de Frédéric Martinez Six actrices. Six stars hollywoodiennes. Six idoles du XXe siècle. L'histoire d'Ava Gardner, de Grace Kelly, de……続きを見る

Les coulisses du concile qui a changé l'Eglise. Janvier 1959. Moins de cent jours après son élection, le pape Jean XXIII convoque un concile afin de procéder à un grand aggiornamento de l'Église cat……続きを見る

This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern per……続きを見る

Tzoref-Ashkenazi presents a detailed study of two German regiments which served in India under the British between 1782 and 1791. He asks if the Germans identified with the goals of the British colo……続きを見る

Merchant activity across Europe, America and China during the long eighteenth century is explored in this collection of essays. Using a unique data set from accounts and correspondence, contributors……続きを見る

Loades explores England's religious cultures during the reign of Mary Tudor. He investigates how conflicting traditions of conformity and dissent negotiated the new spiritual, political and legal la……続きを見る

This is a study of the 'secret history', a polemical form of historiography which flourished in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. 続きを見る

History and International Relations examines, from a historian's perspective, the evolution of international relations as a discipline and charts its engagement with the history of war, peace, and f……続きを見る

The industrial revolution was and is a huge development and one of the fundamental changes in human experience in the modern world. In Debating the Industrial Revolution, Peter N. Stearns, a leading……続きを見る