The Making of the West Combined Volume

• Author : Lynn Hunt,Thomas R. Martin,Barbara H. Rosenwein,Bonnie G. Smith
• Publisher : Macmillan
• Release : 04 January 2012

Students of Western civilization need more than facts. They need to understand the cross-cultural, global exchanges that shaped Western history; to be able to draw connections between the social, cultural, political, economic, and intellectual happenings in a given era; and to see the West not as a fixed region, but a living, evolving construct. These needs have long been central to The Making of the West. The book’s chronological narrative emphasizes the wide variety of peoples and cultures that

• Author : Georges Duby
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 28 March 1967

Distributed in the U.S. by World Publishing Company, Cleveland.

• Author : Colin A. Palmer
• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• Release : 28 March 2023

Colin Palmer presents a guide to understanding the influential West Indian scholar and politician, Eric Williams.

• Author : Lynn Hunt,Thomas R. Martin,Barbara H. Rosenwein,Bonnie G. Smith
• Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
• Release : 04 January 2012

Students of Western civilization need more than facts. They need to understand the cross-cultural, global exchanges that shaped Western history; to be able to draw connections between the social, cultural, political, economic, and intellectual happenings in a given era; and to see the West not as a fixed region, but a living, evolving construct. These needs have long been central to The Making of the West. The book’s chronological narrative emphasizes the wide variety of peoples and cultures that

• Author : John Tutino
• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• Release : 15 May 2012

Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American history, this volume elucidates how economic, social, and cultural legacies grounded in colonial New Spain shaped both Mexico and the United States, as well as how Mexican Americans have constructively participated in

• Author : Mark Whittow
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 28 March 1996

"An excellent book. Its originality lies in its broad geographical perspective, the extensive treatment of neighboring countries . . . and the emphasis on archaeological evidence."--Cyril Mango, Exeter College, Oxford

• Author : E. P. P. Thompson
• Publisher : NYU Press
• Release : 18 July 2014

E. P. Thompson is a towering fi gure in the fi eld of labor history, best known for his monumental and path-breaking work, The Making of the English Working Class. But as this collection shows, Thompson was much more than a historian: he was a dedicated educator of workers, a brilliant polemicist, a skilled political theorist, and a tireless agitator for peace, against nuclear weapons, and for a rebirth of the socialist project. The essays in this book, many of

• Author : J. Bandyopadhyaya
• Publisher : Allied Publishers
• Release : 28 March 2023

• Author : Sarah Imhoff
• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• Release : 13 March 2017

How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative American manhood nor its negative, effeminate opposite. Imhoff demonstrates how early 20th-century Jews constructed a gentler, less aggressive manhood, drawn partly from the American pioneer spirit and immigration experience, but also from Hollywood

• Author : Paul Sant Cassia,Constantina Bada
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 28 March 1992

This 1991 study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers' accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century. These forms then became a feature of wider Greek society which continued into the twentieth century. Greece was the first post-colonial modern nation state in Europe whose national identity was created largely by peasants who had migrated to the

• Author : Lewis E. Kaplan
• Publisher : Algora Publishing
• Release : 28 March 2023

Any history that touts itself as unconventional is bound to raise some hackles when it challenges traditional interpretations of our nation?s past. Yet history is continually under revision. This 2-volume work, covering America's first 300 years, differs from others in seeking to debunk numerous flattering and conventionally accepted myths.℗¡Reading between the lines of what we've all been taught as US history, the author probes a little deeper into what perhaps was never denied ? but was never spelled out, either.

• Author : Bosco Yamashita
• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• Release : 28 March 2023

In a path-breaking series of essays the contributors to this collection explore the development of anthropological research in Asia. The volume includes writings on Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.

• Author : Mark Skousen
• Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
• Release : 18 May 2015

Here is a bold history of economics - the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science. Noted financial writer and economist Mark Skousen has revised and updated this popular work to provide more material on Adam Smith and Karl Marx, and expanded coverage of Joseph Stiglitz, 'imperfect' markets, and behavioral economics.This comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to the major economic philosophers of the past 225 years begins with Adam Smith and continues through the present

• Author : Chris Gifford
• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Release : 28 March 2023

Populist Euroscepticism has become fundamental to constituting Britain and Britishness in a post-imperial context, despite membership of the European Union.This book is organized chronologically, providing overviews of key periods in the British-European Union relationship.

• Author : Jeremy Black
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 17 March 2011

This new work demonstrates how the outcome of the First World War has formed the modern world we live in today. The First World War was the Great War for its leading participants. In revisiting the events of 1914-1918 a century on, Jeremy Black considers how we now look at the impact of the conflict across the globe and how it came to be World War I in our consciousness. For millions, both soldiers and civilians, the conflict proved fatal.