Weltgeschichte

Science, religion and deep time

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"This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current major religions are only centuries or millennia old, the volume discusses the origins and development of human religious practice and…

World history: le nuove rotte della storia

by Meriggi, Marco, Di Fiore, Laura

fromQuadrante (Rome, Italy)

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Varcare i limiti dell'orizzonte nazionale e muoversi in una dimensione trans-regionale, privilegiare i fenomeni nei quali si esprime l'interazione attiva tra le diverse culture e liberarsi, così, dal pregiudizio eurocentrico: sono questi, in sintesi, i presupposti della sfida ch…

Rethinking world history: essays on Europe, Islam, and world history

by Hodgson, Marshall G. S., Burke, Edmund,, III

fromStudies in comparative world history

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Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G.S. Hodgson challenges adherents …

Rethinking world history: essays on Europe, Islam, and world history

by Hodgson, Marshall G. S., Burke, Edmund,, III

fromStudies in comparative world history

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This book rethinks the roles of Europe and Islamic civilisation in world history.

The thirteenth century: a world history

by Bressler, Richard

fromA world history

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"The 13th Century (1200-1300AD) was a fascinating era in World History...Genghis Khan, the Magna Carta, Marco Polo, Sub-Saharan Africa expansion. This world history chronicles the important events in this pivotal century, while exploring many of the relevant figures of the era, …

Muhammad, prophet of peace amid the clash of empires

by Cole, Juan Ricardo

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Map -- Preface -- 1. Sanctuary -- 2. Peace it is -- 3. Repel evil with good -- 4. City of the Prophet -- 5. Just war -- 6. The heart of Mecca -- 7. Into the way of peace -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.

Studies on a global history of music: a Balzan musicology project

by Strohm, Reinhard

fromSOAS musicology

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Introduction. Notes and queries on global music history / Martin Stokes -- Enlightenment. Ancient Greeks, world music and early modern constructions of Western European identity / David R.M. Irving ; Analytical encounters : global music criticism and enlightenment ethnomusicolog…

The Routledge handbook of the global sixties: between protest and nation-building

fromRoutledge Handbooks

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"As the fiftieth anniversary of 1968 approaches, this book reassesses the global causes, themes, forms, and legacies of that tumultuous period. While existing scholarship continues to largely concentrate on the US and Western Europe, this volume will focus on Asia, Africa, the M…

The Routledge handbook of the global sixties: between protest and nation-building

fromRoutledge Handbooks

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"As the fiftieth anniversary of 1968 approaches, this book reassesses the global causes, themes, forms, and legacies of that tumultuous period. While existing scholarship continues to largely concentrate on the US and Western Europe, this volume will focus on Asia, Africa, the M…