Peter N Stearns
Author
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The construction of the great pyramids of Egypt, the development of democracy in ancient Greece, the glories of ancient Rome - these stories are familiar to students of history. But what about the rest of the world? How do the histories of China and Japan, or Russia, India, and the remote territories of Sub-Saharan Africa and South America fit in with commonly known accounts of Western traditions? Learn the rest of the story with these 36 riveting
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Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The modern struggle against fat cuts deeply and pervasively into American culture, as evidenced by the compulsion to stay thin, or at least to profess a desire to become thin. Dieting, weight consciousness, and widespread hostility to obesity form one of the fundamental themes of modern life in countries like the United States and France. Interestingly, while the French are renowned for their delight in all things gustatory, they are significantly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This book takes a global historical perspective to trace the rise of human rights and their global impact from the 18th century to the present. This fully updated volume examines the complex relationships between Western concepts of human rights and developments in other world regions. After providing background on relevant premodern concepts and constraints, the book explores regional interactions with human rights; the disastrous impact of imperialism...
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-six lectures that provide a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe, beginning with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ending with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This course provides a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe. It begins with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ends with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"For decades William L. Langer's best-selling Encyclopedia of World History was the indispensable, authoritative guide to all of human history. Now, under the direction of a distinguished new editor, comes an updated version for a new generation, the only encyclopedia of its kind with a bound-in, searchable compact disc of the complete text. The result is an accessible, absorbing canvas of world history that no student, scholar, or amateur historian...
