Essays discuss Greek and Chineese art, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Dutch genre painting, Rubens, Rembrandt, art collecting, museums, and Freud's aesthetics
With more than 500 photographs and illustrations and over 25 maps, this is the most authoritative visual chronological record of the last 20,000 years.
A comprehensive history of our world, from the dawn of human history to the present day.
The book also covers key events that have altered world history since the publication of the first edition, including terrorism, global consumerism, and environmental issues.
An American historian, Henry Adams, overwhelmed by this technology, wrote that “his historical neck [was] broken by the sudden irruption of forces totally new.”1 For the rapidly industrializing peoples of Western and Central Europe and ...
This edition of WORLD HISTORY continues to take a global approach to world history, with an emphasis on analytical comparisons between and among cultures throughout history.
As one of the first books to systematically discuss the international dimensions of global historical scholarship and address a wealth of questions emanating from them, Global History, Globally is a must-read book for all students and ...
From the 100 Years War to the Gulf Wars, and from the wisdom of Aristotle to the Civil Rights movement, this book distils the major events in human history into easily digestible chunks.
This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovative field in history—one that takes the connectedness of the world as its point of departure, and that poses a fundamental challenge to the ...
As well as over 4000 clear and concise entries, this dictionary also contains biographies of key figures in world history.