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Bringing together scholars from around the world, the first book in this series riases the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalisation, so as to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late 19th and …
This is a fascinating exploration of how the history of Europe, and indeed the world, might have been different if the Western Roman Empire had survived the crisis that pulled it apart in the 4th and 5th centuries. Dr. Timothy Venning starts by showing how that survival and reco…
The history of the world as chronicled by the objects created by mankind.
Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wea…
The Earth and Its Peoples, Fifth Edition, presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power. This truly global text for the world history survey course employs fundamental themes of "environment and technology" and "d…
"The remarkable story of an imperial civilization that endures as perhaps the only one to have survived from antiquity into the present day. No less significant than the collapse of the Roman Republic or the Persian invasion of Greece, the evolution of the Arab empire is one of …
