Throughout world history, argues Bodley (anthropology, Washington State U.), particular individuals, driven to accumulate social power, have promoted growth, or scale increases, that amplified many human problems by socializing the costs of development and disproportionately con…
Taking aim at such books as Machiavelli's The Prince and Hitler's Mein Kampf, Wiker shows how these authors' perverse ideologies not only have led to past atrocities like war and genocide, but also how their philosophies are still popular and damaging today. --from publisher des…
An epic for our time, Big History begins when the universe is no more than a single point the size of an atom, squeezed together in unimaginable density, and ends with a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by 6.1 billion people. It's a story that takes in prehistoric geology, …
When it was first published to rave reviews in 2007, Big History quickly became one of the foundational texts for a paradigm-shifting new movement: the understanding of world history from a radically expansive, interdisciplinary perspective. Praised as a "lucidly [written] vast …
An epic for our time, Big History begins when the universe is no more than a single point the size of an atom, squeezed together in unimaginable density, and ends with a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by 6.1 billion people. It's a story that takes in prehistoric geology, …
"The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary scholarship in the field of big history. The book is divided into five parts, each representing current and evolving areas of interest to the community, i…
The nature of agricultural society -- Early civilizations -- The classical period -- Religion and trade : world history from 600- -- The Mongol period, 1200- -- The early modern period -- New empires, new ideas : regional developments in the early modern period -- The nature of …
Transregionality in the history of area studies / Steffi Marung -- Balkan counter-circulation: internationalizing area studies from a periphery during the Cold War / Bogdan Iacob -- Area studies scholarship of Asia / Prasenjit Duara -- Area studies, regionalwissenschaften, aires…