This social and economic history of Europe from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution organizes a multitude of details to paint a rich picture of everyday life.
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"How did the modern world get to be the way it is? How did we come to live in a globalized, industrialized, capitalistic set of nation-states? Moving beyond Eurocentric explanations and histories that revolve around the "rise of the West," historian Robert B. Marks explores the …
Alighting at the pivotal points of cultural transformation, this is an exhilarating history of the key institutions that have organised knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit the authors question how history helps us understand the vast cha…
McNeely presents a compact history of Western culture via the institutions that have shaped knowledge from the classical period to the present.
McNeely presents a compact history of Western culture via the institutions that have shaped knowledge from the classical period to the present.
McNeely presents a compact history of Western culture via the institutions that have shaped knowledge from the classical period to the present.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to a single fateful year. Everything changed in 1492: the way power and wealth were distributed around the globe, the way major religions and civilizations divided the world, and the increasing interconnectedn…