Description: For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, ...
Author: Pavlac, Brian A. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This engaging text offers a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical infor...
Author: Pavlac, Brian A. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This engaging text offers a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage as it began in the first human societies and developed in ancient Greece and Rome, then through the Middle Ages. ...
Author: Pavlac, Brian A. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This engaging text offers a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage as it began in the first human societies and developed in ancient Greece and Rome, then through the Middle Ages. ...
Author: Whitman, Dan Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Local rulers in Haiti crashed their own three elections of 2000, with foreign governments' compliance. Meanwhile, a national pree federation took root and changed forever Haitian political reporting a...
Author: Gombrich, E. H. Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The international bestseller available in English for the first time: E. H. Gombrichs world history for the curious of all ages. style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"
Author: Kiple,Kenneth F. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book, based largely on the Cambridge World History of Food, provides a look at the globalization of food from the days of the hunter-gatherers to present-day genetically modified plants and anima...
Author: Iliffe,John Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have...
Author: Whitney, Craig Publisher: Public Affair Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A distinguished New York Times editor explores the history of the pipe organ in America in a book that will intrigue and delight anyone interested in classical music and popular culture. Hear the soun...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915, when approximately one million people were killed. This volume is t...
Author: ROHRER, TODD ANDREW Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A man had an accident. He lost his sense of time and emotional capacity. This is his eighteenth attempt to communicate since the accident.
Author: Scarfe Beckett, Katharine Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world prevalent in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a wide variety of literary, historical and archaeological evidence, she argu...
Author: Ramet, Sabrina Petra Publisher: Westview Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Yugoslavia’s would-be system-builders failed three times over to build a workable system. The underlying problem was their failure to resolve the problem of legitimacy. In the 1980s, economic de...
Author: Marichal,Carlos Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Marichal emphasizes that the Spanish empire remained the third most important European state in terms of fiscal income and naval power, and first in size of territorial empire, particularly because of...
Author: Moore, Pete Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The 17th Century Parisian doctor who made blood transfusion history...In 1667 a Parisian doctor by the name of Jean-Baptiste Denis performed an operation that had never previously been attempted - he ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers the first in-depth international survey of current research and debates in business history. Over the last two decades enormous advances have been made on the history of business ente...
Author: Hudson, Kate, Publisher: Vision Paperbacks Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Published to mark the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, CND - Now More Than Ever is a fascinating and timely look at an archetypal campaigning organisation. 'CND remains a key and important...
Author: Cooper, Frederick Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and ...
Author: Peters,Rudolph / Glazer,Amihai / Hirshleifer,David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rudolph Peters' book is about crimes and their punishments as laid down in Islamic law. In recent years some of the more fundamentalist regimes, such as those of Iran, Pakistan, Sudan and the northern...
Author: Hruby, Peter Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Australian spy Ian Milner was suspected of working for Soviet and Czechoslovak secret services on four continents. He served at the United Nations in New York, and the FBI followed him day and night b...
Author: Munslow, Alun Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Munslow examines history in the postmodern age. He provides an introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history. He also surveys the latest research into the relationship between the pa...
Author: Shryock, Andrew / Smail, Daniel Lord Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out o...
Author: Montgomery, David R. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dirt, soil, call it what you want-it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are ...
Author: Prestholdt, Jeremy Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon-and one driven solely by Western interests-by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the ninet...
Author: Magee, Gary B. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures ...
Author: Muthu, Sankar Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building was not only unworkable, costly, and dan...
Description: Today environmental issues are part of daily life, a feature of the modern world almost everyone now recognises. Contemporary environmentalism has promoted a way of speaking and thinking about the env...
Author: Haq, Gary / Paul, Alistair Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Today environmental issues are part of daily life, a feature of the modern world almost everyone now recognises. Contemporary environmentalism has promoted a way of speaking and thinking about the env...
Author: Fogel, Robert William Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a ...
Author: Levi, Carlo Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Only a renaissance man could have described this glorious city in its heyday. And only Carlo Levi, writer, painter, politician and one of the last century's most celebrated talents, could depict Rome ...
Author: Tubach, Frederic C. / Tubach, Sally Patterson Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: What was it like to grow up German during Hitler's Third Reich? In this extraordinary book, Frederic C. Tubach returns to the country of his roots to interview average Germans who, like him, came of a...
Author: Tubach, Frederic C. / Tubach, Sally Patterson Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What was it like to grow up German during Hitler's Third Reich? In this extraordinary book, Frederic C. Tubach returns to the country of his roots to interview average Germans who, like him, came of a...
Author: Iriye, Akira Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The "global community" is a term we take for granted today. But how did the global community, both as an idea and as a reality, originate and develop over time? This book examines this concept by look...
Author: Hausman,William / Hertner,Peter / Wilkins,Mira Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines how multinational enterprises and international finance influenced the course of electrification around the world. Multinational enterprises played a crucial role in the spread of e...
Author: Sachsenmaier, Dominic Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement ...
Author: Brown, Judith M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significan...
Author: Schechter, Michael G. Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most pervasive phenomena that distinguish the early 21st century is the prevalence of international organizations (IOs). There are IOs in virtually every sector: political, economic, trade,...
Description: Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immedia...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immedia...
Author: Cummins, Joseph Publisher: Fair Winds Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Centuries of warfare that changed the world are captured in History’s Greatest Wars. This book acts as a perfect primer for novices while offering seasoned history readers new perspectives on ...
Author: Harding, Nick Publisher: Pocket Essentials Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rejected by the Freemasons? Not bright enough for the Illuminati? Burnt by the Hell Fire Club? No friends in high places to get you into the Bilderberg or the Bohemian Grove? Feeling isolated and powe...
Author: Claeys, Gregory Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850-1920. Departing from existing accounts, which have focused upon the Boer War and th...
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What are the percepts of Shari'ah law? What role did Genghis Khan play in Islamic history? How do the teachings of the Qur'an mesh with those of other religious texts? Islamic Art, Literature, and ...
