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  • Migration in World History

    by Patrick Manning, Tiffany Trimmer ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    In this third edition of Migration in World History, Patrick Manning presents an expanded and newly coherent view of migratory processes, conveying new research and interpretation. The engaging narrative shows the continuity of migratory processes from the time of foragers who settled the earth to farmers opening new fields and merchants linking purchasers everywhere. In the last thousand years, ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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  • A Short History of Progress

    by Ronald Wright ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water -- the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Natural Experiments of History

    by Jared Diamond ...
    In eight case studies by leading scholars in history, archaeology, business, economics, geography, and political science, the authors showcase the “natural experiment” or “comparative method”—well-known in any science concerned with the past—on the discipline of human history. That means, according to the editors, “comparing, preferably quantitatively and aided by statistical analyses, different ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Borders

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives. Highlighting the historical development and continued relevance of borders, Alexander Diener and Joshua Hagen offer a powerful counterpoint to the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Why Geography Matters

    Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism

    by Harm de Blij ...
    Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a superpower; and Islamic terrorism and insurgency will threaten vital American interests. How can we understand these and other global challenges? ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • An Environmental History of the World

    Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life

    by J. Donald Hughes ...
    This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. Throughout their evolutionary history, humans have affected the natural environment, sometimes with a promise of sustainable balance, but ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Conflict and Harmony

    by Syed Husin Ali ...
    With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of the masses. In articles spanning more than three decades, collected for the first time here, he ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The African Diaspora

    A History Through Culture

    by Patrick Manning ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories together, Manning shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Colonizer's Model of the World

    Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

    by J. M. Blaut ...
    This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European civilization. J. M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Questioning Collapse

    Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire

    Edited by Patricia A. McAnany, Norman Yoffee ...
    Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible and closely argued essays, a team of internationally recognized scholars bring history and context to bear in their radically different analyses of ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Culture and the Question of Rights

    Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia

    by Marina Roseman, Stephanie Gorson Fried, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental justice, nature conservation, cultural performance, and the politics of making and interpreting ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • How Societies Change

    by Daniel Chirot ...
    Series series Sociology for a New Century Series
    How have societies changed over the past 5,000 years? Welcome to the brief, manageable macro-sociology text that takes your students on a journey to answer this question.This book, the only brief and affordable macro-sociology text available for undergraduates, describes how societies have changed over the past five thousand years. The discussion focuses on the idea that industrial societies, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD