An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the interaction of the natural world w…
The world is becoming multipolar, multicultural and mono-cultural all at the same time. Flows of culture are intensifying not just from West to the rest, but in all directions. What effect does the rush of culture and information via the internet, never-before-seen, mean for our…
The world is becoming multipolar, multicultural and mono-cultural all at the same time. Flows of culture are intensifying not just from West to the rest, but in all directions. What effect does the rush of culture and information via the internet, never-before-seen, mean for our…
Popular views of medieval chivalry--knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering from battlements--were inherited from the nineteenth-century Romantics. This is the first book to explore chivalry's place within a wider history of medieval England, from the Norman Co…
A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and fills a void by presenting a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think about the emerging socio-political world, and above all how we think politically about human cultural differences. Here is a rare …
