Search results for “[Subject: history-surveys-modern]”

• Author(s): Angela Ki Che Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis groundbreaking volume captures and analyzes the exhilarating and at times disorienting experience whe...

• Author(s): Alan White • Publisher: Pearson Education Limited • Publisher Imprint: Pearson Education Limited

• Author(s): Alison Gundy • Publisher: Pearson Education Limited • Publisher Imprint: Pearson Education Limited

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCA Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers a span of 2500 years, tracing how ...

• Author(s): Derrick Murphy • Publisher: Pearson Education Limited • Publisher Imprint: Pearson Education Limited

• Author(s): Rosemary Rees • Publisher: Pearson Education Limited • Publisher Imprint: Pearson Education Limited

• Author(s): Geoffrey C. Gunn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAstride the historical maritime silk routes linking India to China, premodern East and Southeast Asia can be ...

• Author(s): Marcel Van Der Linden • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceDivided into two volumes, The Cambridge History of Socialism offers an up-to-date critical sur...

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWhat role has war played in the historical and contemporary formation of societies across the globe? How have different classes and communities been impacted, a...

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCA Cultural History of Leisure presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of t...

• Author(s): Martin Collier • Publisher: Pearson Education Limited • Publisher Imprint: Pearson Education Limited

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWhat has driven humanity to expand across the globe? How was it achieved? And what has it meant to be on the receiving end - not the explorer but the explored? ...

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCA Cultural History of Youth presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the...

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCHow has human response to genocide evolved over time? What effect has it had on our understanding of the cause and consequences of genocide? Spanning 2,800 year...

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWhat role has love played in social, political and cultural life over the centuries? How have normative values and beliefs about love affected different social ...

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCHow have ideas of the tragic influenced Western culture? How has tragedy been shaped by its social and cultural conditions? In a work that spans 2,500 years, th...

• Author(s): Isabelle Duyvesteyn • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Military - GeneralThe Cambridge History of Strategy presents a global history exploring of how leaders of social gro...

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCFrom antiquity to today, human culture has always been obsessed with fame, infamy, and celebrity. Fame is essential to history itself, distilling what a culture...

• Author(s): Marius (EDT) Turda • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Social HistoryHow have definitions of race varied and changed over time? What impact have religion, science and politics had...

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCHow has our understanding of death evolved over the course of 2,500 years? What can recorded history tell us about how different cultures and societies have fel...

• Author(s): David Brown • Publisher: Pearson Education Limited • Publisher Imprint: Pearson Education Limited

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCHow have legal ideas and institutions affected Western culture? And how has the law itself been shaped by its cultural context? In a work spanning 4,500 years, ...

• Author(s): Paul D'Arcy • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralThese volumes present a comprehensive survey of the history of the Pacific Ocean, an area making up around on...

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCMusic has been significant in social, religious, and political ritual, and in education, art, and entertainment in all human cultures from antiquity to today. T...

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCInsects are the form of life most alien to us. Across millennia, insects have been providers and sources of food as well as feared vectors of infection. Particu...