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Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
The Indian Ocean has served as the world's greatest trading highway for millennia not merely because of cultural imperatives, but because the regular ...
Civilizations is a radical cultural history of mankind's relationship with natue, which advances a new understanding of what it means to be civilised....
The Man Who Gave His Name to America
In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The nam...
A History of Food
"In Near a Thousand Tables, Oxford historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history - ec...
A Brief History
The World: A Brief World History, Volume II....
"Authoritative, Compelling, provocative: internationally respected historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto introduces you to the key historical and philoso...
A History and a Guide for the Perplexed
Written by a renowned Oxford historian, this fascinating volume presents a global history of truth. Sharp and authoritative, Truth manages to touch ev...
The Year Our World Began
The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the...
Exploration and Colonisation from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492
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"The discoverer of America ranks among the world's greatest explorers. Columbus was a brilliant intuitive navigator with bold and challenging ideas, y...
A Hemispheric History
From food to the spread of political ideas, the landmass from northern Canada to the southern tip of Argentina is complexly bound together, yet these ...
The World interweaves two stories—of our interactions with nature and with each other. The environment-centered story is about humans distancing the...
A Brief History of Humankind
An enlightening journey through the history of humankind, revealing the challenges to our most fundamental belief, that we are, and always have been, ...
What We Think and How We Came to Think It
‘Immensely learned and ambitious…seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio… This is by any standards a significant book and its author deser...
A History : Combined Volume
The World interweaves two stories--of our interactions with nature and with each other. The environment-centered story is about humans distancing them...
Intended as an antidote to potted biographies and piecemeal reconstructions of his voyages, this volume draws on judicious selections from Christopher...
“A rich and moving chronicle for our very present.” —Julio Ortega, New York Times Book Review The United States is still typically conceived of ...
Why Our Lives Change — and the Limits of Evolution
We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-tr...
Volume Two: Since 1300
This is the world history book that gives students the whole story. The World is the first world history textbook that shows, through a holistic, trul...
A Global History of Exploration
This book is about encounters between cultures and the outreach of ambitions, imaginations, efforts, and innovations that made them possible....
Volume A: To 1200
The Experience of War in 1588
The Spanish Armada challenges that view. On the 400th anniversary of the famous sea battle, it offers a more balanced account of the confrontation bet...
The History of a Hemisphere
A groundbreaking biography of the man who gave his name to America, "Amerigo" is delivered by one of the worlds most exciting historians who spins a g...
Beyond the Myth of Magellan
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human br...
A Thousand Years of the City's Past
Barcelona, like Spain itself, has in recent years attracted the gaze and fascination of the world. Chosen as the host city for the 1992 Summer Olympic...
Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Volume I: Cádiz to Panamá
Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific in...
V. 1.. The turn of the tide -- v. 2. Constantine and the Christian Empire -- v. 3. The revival and collapse of paganism -- v. 4. The end of the Wester...
A Brief History - To 1500
The World: A Brief History gives students the whole story. Prentice Hall is proud to offer The World: A Brief History the new brief version of The Wor...
A 400 Year History
The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Azte...
These 15 articles follow on from those in The Global Opportunity in that they examine how and why the Europeans expanded worldwide. Part one explores ...
A History of the Last Thousand Years
Presents an unprecedented vision of genuinely global history....
Drawing on works of art and literature, anecdotes and ephemera as well as conventional sources, this is an original and thought-provoking account of 5...
A Radical Interpretation of Christianity and the World, 1500-2000
This unprecedented collaboration between two world-renowned historians--one Catholic, the other Protestant--offers a dazzling work of history which ex...
History Combined
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