A retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterway…
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"A maritime history of the world"-- A retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread …
"Maps of Time opens with the origins of the universe - of the stars and the galaxies, of the sun and the solar system, including Earth - and conducts readers through the evolution of the planet before human habitation. It surveys the development of human society from the Paleoli…
This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos. From the Trade P…
This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos.
Absorbing and incisive, Land of Desire tells the story of a fundamental transformation in the culture and economy of America - the rise of mass-market consumerism and the attendant shift to a society "preoccupied with consumption, with comfort and bodily well-being, with luxury,…
Was verändert die Welt?Wer hat denn nun die Welt am stärksten verändert: die Politiker, die Ideen in die Tat umsetzten, oder die Philosophen, von denen siestammten? Oder vielleicht sogar jemand ganz anderes? Etwa der Erfinder des Papiers, ohne das weder Buchdruck noch Reformatio…
Naipaul's turn in the South takes him from Atlanta to Charleston, from Tallahassee to Tuskegee, from Jackson to Nashville to Chapel Hill. As he travels, he senses the strong pull the past exerts on inhabitants of the region: the weighty legacy of the land and history that seems …
