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  • The Evolution of Social Institutions

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Stephen A. Kowalewski, David B. Small ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present. This approach is based on examining social evolution through the evolution of social institutions. Evolution is defined as the process of structural change. Within this framework the society, or culture, is seen as a system composed ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Urbanism in the Preindustrial World

    Cross-Cultural Approaches

    by Rebecca Storey, Li Liu, Sarah M. Nelson, Roger S. Bagnall, Deborah E. Blom, Jesper L. Boldsen, Elio Lo Cascio, L. J. Gorenflo, Babatunde Agbaje Williams, Laura Lee Junker, Chapurukha Kusimba0, Sibel Barut Kusimba1, Ian Morris2, Deborah L. Nichols3, Hans Christian Petersen4, Richard R. Paine5, Don S. Rice6, Nan A. Rothschild7, Brent D. Shaw8, David B. Small9, John Wayne Janusek0, Glenn R. Storey2 ...
    A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population of cities. The subject cities are in Greece, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Ancient Greece

    Social Structure and Evolution

    by David B. Small ...
    Series series Case Studies in Early Societies
    This book examines the development of ancient Greek civilization through a path-breaking application of social scientific theories. David B. Small charts the rise of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations and the unique characteristics of the later classical Greeks through the lens of ancient social structure and complexity theory, opening up new ideas and perspectives on these societies. He ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Origins of Cultures

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    In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show how cultures adopt ... Read more

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    El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer).“ . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time . . . groundbreaking, mind-stretching.” —The IndependentExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and the Health of Nations

    Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations

    by Anthony McMichael ...
    When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to the climate's vicissitudes. Anthony McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and a pioneer in the field of how human health relates to climate change, is the ideal person to tell this story. ... Read more

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  • An Environmental History of the World

    Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life

    by J. Donald Hughes ...
    This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. Throughout their evolutionary history, humans have affected the natural environment, sometimes with a promise of sustainable balance, but ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Alternative Pathways to Complexity

    A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis

    Edited by Lane F. Fargher, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza ...
    Alternative Pathways to Complexity focuses on the themes of architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies from Mesoamerica, Asia, Africa, and Europe examine the relationship between political structures and economic configurations of ancient chiefdoms and states through a framework of comparative archaeology.A group of highly distinguished scholars takes up ... Read more

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  • Understanding Early Civilizations

    A Comparative Study

    by Bruce G. Trigger ...
    This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their sociopolitical organization, economic systems, religion, and ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and the Course of Global History

    A Rough Journey

    by John L. Brooke ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and climatic history explain the pattern and pace of biological and human evolution. Part II explores the environmental circumstances of the rise of ... Read more

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  • The Colonizer's Model of the World

    Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

    by J. M. Blaut ...
    This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European civilization. J. M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History

    Edited by Peter Clark ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time, and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the past? How have historic urban patterns impacted on those of the contemporary world? And what were the key drivers in the roller ... Read more

    $49.99 USD