Concise Encyclopaedia of World History (Hardbound - 2007)

The Concise Encyclopedia of World History offers the global reading public, students, and professors a handy, complete, and accurate guide to all political formations since the beginning of history. It reaches into pre-history through the inclusion of the important families of languages spoken today. It also tracks ethnic groups, especially nomadic, which have been influential in the creation of civilizations and states. The entries on existing independent states include up-to-date political facts and statistics. They mention each country’s World Heritage Sites. To complement the individual entries in this encyclopedia, there is an extensive, commentated world-historical chronology. A special feature in this work is the inclusion of individual political chronologies for ancient civilizations and important countries and regions the world over. To round out this easy-to-consult and thoroughly researched work, there is a cross-referenced index especially designed for provinces, cities, and other entities which have no entries of their own but appear in the entries, sometimes prominently, as, for example, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates or Amritsar in India.

Carlos Ramirez-Faria has accomplished extensive and intensive investigations on economic and social issues. He obtained his doctoral degree from the London School of Economics (LSE) of the University of London. He is the author of various important works on the history of Venezuela, his native land, and of The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A Critique of Western Theories on Development and Underdevelopment, A Historical Dictionary of World Political Geography, and The Downsizing of America. He is presently based in New Delhi, where he has lectured on Latin America at Delhi University. He has also taught at Zulia University in Venezuela; at the LSE and the Casa Miranda in London; and at Hunter College in New York. His forthcoming works are The Lions of Chauvet: Terror and Progress in World History and Essays in Practical Philosophy.