This is a landmark book on the conduct of American foreign policy--and how that policy is crucial to the peace of the world. It is a fascinating inside look at great events that deepens our understanding of today's global issues.
This book underscores just how thoroughly slavery is responsible for the making of the modern world.
California changed dramatically in the years between the founding of the first mission in 1769 and the 1848 gold rush. These eleven eyewitness accounts vividly describe the first European land...
A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
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The book describes the currently precarious state of an emerging multipolar world at the time of the peaceful rise of China.
Maps in the ancient world often privileged a significant spiritual locale. Mesopotamian maps centered on Babylon. Islamic maps centered on Mecca. And ancient Greek maps frequently centered on Delphi, the site of Apollo's oracle.
A World Transformed looks at the Vietnamese revolution from the perspective of Vietnamese culture itself rather than as a reaction to the Cold War or to the actions of external...
"The most important book yet written about the end of the Cold War.
This book underscores just how thoroughly slavery is responsible for the making of the modern world.
This book underscores just how thoroughly slavery is responsible for the making of the modern world.