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  • The Industrial Turn in World History

    de Peter Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural societies to industrial societies over the past two centuries. Putting the implications for individuals and societies in global context while simultaneously considering the limits of generalization across cultures, Stearns’s text explores the nature of ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Time in World History

    de Peter Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    In this book, Peter Stearns presents the fascinating concept of time through a global historical lens. Covering both calendrical time and clock time, the volume shows how significant changes in conceptions of time are in world history, as they translate many key historical developments from religion to industrialization, into daily experience.The book explores why and how early societies became ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Peace in World History

    de Peter Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    In Peace in World History, Peter N. Stearns examines the ideas of peace that have existed throughout history, and how societies have sought to put them into practice. Beginning with the status of peace in early hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies, and continuing through the present day, the narrative gives students a clear view of the ways people across the world have understood and striven ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Tolerance in World History

    de Peter Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    This volume draws together the many discrete studies of tolerance to create a global and comprehensive synthesis. In a concise text, author Peter Stearns makes connections across time periods and key regions, to help clarify the record and the relationship between current tolerance patterns and those of the past. The work is timely in light of the obvious tensions around tolerance in the world ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Premodern Travel in World History

    de Stephen Gosch, Peter Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    This book features some of the greatest travellers in human history – people who undertook long journeys to places they knew little or nothing about. From Roman tourists, to the establishment of the Silk Road; an epic trek round China and India in the seventh century, to Marco Polo and through to the first speculations on space travel, Premodern Travel in World History provides an overview of long ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • Mesoamerica's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Maya and Aztec

    de Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes over 25 pictures of both civilizations' art, ruins, architecture, and more. *Describes everyday life for the Maya and Aztecs, from language to religion. *Comprehensively covers the civilizations' most famous characteristics, including Mayan astronomy and the Aztecs' infamous human sacrifice rituals.*Includes a Table of Contents When the Spanish arrived in the New World, men like Columbus ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • The Normans

    From Raiders to Kings

    de Lars Brownworth ...
    There is much more to the Norman story than the Battle of Hastings. These descendants of the Vikings who settled in France, England, and Italy - but were not strictly French, English, or Italian - played a large role in creating the modern world. They were the success story of the Middle Ages; a footloose band of individual adventurers who transformed the face of medieval Europe. During the course ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Atlantic

    Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

    de Simon Winchester ...
    "Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Trojan War

    The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid

    de Homer, Virgil ...
    Series series Texts from Ancient Greece
    Presented in this book are three of the greatest literary works of the Ancient World: 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer, and 'The Aeneid' by Virgil.'The Iliad' tells the tale of the ten year siege of Troy by the Greeks, the exploits of King Agamemnon and the legendary Achilles, and the infamous wooden horse invented by Odysseus.In 'The Odyssey' the cunning Odysseus is cursed by Poseidon to ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD

  • The Mongols: From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane

    From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane

    de W.B. Bartlett ...
    In the space of 200 hundred years, the Mongols built the greatest empire that the world had ever known and then lost it again. At its greatest extent, the lands they held dwarfed those under the control of Rome at its prime whilst the conquests of its founder, Genghis Khan, outshone those of even Alexander the Great. There were few parts of the known world that were not touched by the Mongols in ... Leer más

    $10.59 USD

  • The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    de Iain McGilchrist ...
    Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this or that function, but two whole, coherent, but incompatible ways of experiencing the world. The left ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Great Divide

    The Story of New Zealand, and its Treaty

    de Ian Wishart ...
    New Zealand to many is 'Middle Earth', home of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it was also the last major land mass on the planet to be settled by humans.The country was catapulted kicking and screaming from the stone age to the space age within 200 years of Captain Cook setting foot there...Who really got to New Zealand first? Which version of the Treaty of Waitangi is the most accurate? What ... Leer más

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