The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias reinterprets Las......more
This is the first world history of peasants. Peasants in World History analyzes the multiple transformations of peasant ......more
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The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most truste......more
In this third edition of Migration in World History, Patrick Manning presents an expanded and newly coherent view of mig......more
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A History of Place in the Digital Age explores the history and impact of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and relate......more
Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one powerful landlord owned the village s......more
This book provides a conceptual history of the emergence of civilizational consciousness in early China. Focusing on how......more
This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts--verbal, visual and aural--through a framework of humou......more
Is it possible to imagine a history that includes everything and everyone? This volume argues that the deep ancestor to ......more
This book scrutinizes physical, temporal and psychological strata across early twentieth-century literature, focusing on......more
This book presents the collectors roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Con......more
Bringing together international scholars from across a range of linked disciplines to examine the concept of the person ......more
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Ideas abound as to why certain complex societies collapsed in the past, including environmental change, subsistence fail......more
The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession offers a unique interpretation of how literary and pub......more
The tragedy of European civilization is a protracted historical event spanning the twentieth century and in many ways is......more
The century that began in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War was catastrophic. Over the course of that one-hu......more
In Peace in World History, Peter N. Stearns examines the ideas of peace that have existed throughout history, and how so......more
World History: An Introduction provides readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to understand the global historic......more
The horrors of the past century have done little to advance appreciation for the virtues of Western civilization. Critic......more
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The text of the 1699 edition, with slight changes, and additional material, edited with introduction, notes and appendic......more
The text is translated from the Accounts of Pigafetta, and other Contemporary Writers. Accompanied by Original Documen......more
Zorzi s Italian text with translation by C. A. Ralegh Radford. Includes a gazetteer for Fra Mauro s map. This is a new......more
Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. Between 1324 and 1354 he journeyed through North Africa and Asia Minor and as f......more
Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. Between 1324 and 1354 he journeyed through North Africa and Asia Minor and as f......more
The volume contains the following accounts, edited, with an introduction: Narrative of the voyage of Abd-er-Razzak, Amba......more
Adventures between 1589 and 1607, edited, with notes and a concise history of Kongo and Angola. With part of Anthony Kni......more
Letters, narratives, and extracts from diaries, etc. of 1500-01, chiefly of Portuguese and Venetian origin, translated, ......more
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934....more
A revised translation of the documents in First Series 2, with the editor s reply to J. A. Froude s strictures on the ......more
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Continues Second Series 76, with continuous pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume fir......more
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The original volume was first published in 1905. The writer who was a sailor, but who has hidden his identity under init......more
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Translated from the Original Arabic and Edited, with Notes, Appendices, and an Introduction, continuing the History down......more
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Offering fascinating insights into the people and politics of the ancient near Eastern kingdoms, Trevor Bryce uses the l......more
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In this book, Chrysovalantis Kyriacou reconstructs the motif of the Byzantine warrior hero in Cypriot folk songs. Kyriac......more
This book is an interdisciplinary guide for middle grades (4th through 8th grade, though it can be adapted to lower and ......more
This lively text offers a brief history of Western civilization. Providing a focused narrative and interpretive structur......more
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Hittites contains a chronology, an introduction, an appendix, and a ......more
A History of Anthropology as a Holistic Science discusses the four fields of anthropology as a holistic science and the ......more
With original primary source documents, this anthology brings readers into the vast unknown 19th-century American West--......more
Drawing on newspapers, archival sources, and memoirs, Spectacular Politics shows how, as President of the Second Republi......more
Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas J......more
How did the medieval Frankish world relate to the orbis Romanus? Although this term is only sporadically attested in the......more
What is the contemporary cultural legacy of Byzantium or The Eastern Roman Empire? This book explores the varied recepti......more
The history of Byzantium pivots around the eleventh century, during which it reached its apogee in terms of power, prest......more
Is global violence on the decline? Scholars argue that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker’s proposal that violence has d......more
This book reconsiders how we can understand archaeology on a grand scale by abandoning the claims that material remains ......more
This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one of the world s richest yet hitherto understudied lega......more
What happened on Columbus’s first voyage across the Atlantic? Who was responsible for the success of that voyage? How do......more
A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstabl......more
This book is a full-scale study of the world’s most famous secret society, the Cambridge "Apostles." It shows how the Ap......more
Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on langua......more
Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730-1850 brings together the work of international authors to explo......more
St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296-1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book......more
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Was Assyria merely a more brutal, more uncivilized and less interesting offshoot of the culture created by Sumerians and......more