Praised for its easy-to-read narrative and attention to the lives of ordinary people, A History of Western Society, Fourteenth Edition, includes even more tools to engage students and save instructors time. A signature focus on social and cultural history helps students engage with and think critically about the past. Achieve, a powerful course platform, combines the full e-textbook with a wealth of additional primary sources, tutorials, activities, and assessments that guide students in inte...

In dit handboek over de oudheid wordt de geschiedenis van de Griekse en Romeinse wereld op een nieuwe wijze gepresenteerd: ingebed in naar tijd en ruimte uitgebreide kaders – chronologisch van de vroege prehistorie tot ver in de Middeleeuwen en geografisch over het hele gebied van Europa, Azië en Noord-Afrika.

Binnen deze kaders ligt de nadruk steeds op de Grieks-Romeinse wereld van de periode 1000 v.C. tot 500 n.C. Die periode wordt in vier naar opzet gelijkwaardige delen gesplitst, waarbi...

Scheepshistorie is een rijk geïllustreerd maritiem magazine in full-colour en verschijnt twee keer per jaar. Elke aflevering is opgemaakt op boekformaat, beslaat 128 pagina's en bevat gevarieerde en interessante onderwerpen over de Nederlandse maritieme geschiedenis door de eeuwen heen.

This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American history, in which a sense of paradox and irony loom large.

While noting positive achievements-political, economic, social, and cultural-he will also discuss the United States's failures to live up to its oft-statedideals; although America has figu...

The beginning story of the communism was like this:

A ghost walks in Europe - the ghost of communism. All the forces of old Europe entered into a sacred alliance to defeat this ghost: the Pope and the Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police agents.

Where is the opposition party not being accused of being communist by its opponents? Where is the opposition, which has not thrown this blightful communism accusation back to its reactionary adversaries as well as to the more...

Thoroughly updated and revised, the ninth-edition of the highly-regarded British Civilization: An Introduction continues to be the ideal textbook on Britain, its country and people, religion, politics and government, international relations, legal system, economy, education, media and culture for students of British studies.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development.

Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metric...

A human history of one of the planet’s most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores

The Caribbean before Columbus is a new synthesis of the region's insular history. It combines the results of the authors' 55 years of archaeological research on almost every island in the three archipelagoes with that of their numerous colleagues and collaborators. The presentation operates on multiple scales: temporal, spatial, local, regional, environmental, social, and political.

In addition, individual sites are used to highlight specific issues. For the first time, the complete histories...