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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael d mathiowetz”
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  • Entangled Worlds

    600–1350

    by Akira Iriye, Jürgen Osterhammel, Naomi Standen, André Wink, Michael Borgolte, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Christopher S. Beekman, Justin Jennings, Michael D. Mathiowetz ...
    Series Book 2 - A History of the World
    Leading historians and archaeologists offer a comprehensive introduction to the increasingly entangled worlds that spanned the globe between 600 and 1350 CE.The period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries is hardly thought of as an era of globalization. Entire societies in the Americas, Australia, and Oceania developed in relative isolation from other parts of the world. Even on the ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Flower Worlds

    Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest

    Edited by Michael Mathiowetz, Andrew Turner ...
    Series series Amerind Studies in Archaeology
    The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas. These worlds are solar and floral spiritual domains that are widely shared among both pre-Hispanic and contemporary Native cultures in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Flower Worldsis the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Empires of the Word

    A Language History of the World

    by Nicholas Ostler ...
    A "monumental" account of the rise and fall of languages, with "many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes, and charming linguistic oddities" ( Chicago Tribune).Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that bind communities together and make possible both the living of a common history and the telling ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

    Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

    Edited by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Julio Hoil Gutierrez ...
    Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to ... Read more

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  • The Year 1000

    When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

    by Valerie Hansen ...
    *A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade missions first connected all of the world’s societies at the end of the first millennium.People often... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica

    Edited by Joshua Englehardt, Michael D. Carrasco ...
    Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of ... Read more

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  • When Asia Was the World

    Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East""

    by Stewart Gordon ...
    "New insights, especially into the remarkable developments of Asian worlds in a millennium of Asian predominance. . . . [A] thoughtful, innovative history." —David Landes, Professor of Economics and History, emeritus, Harvard UniversityWhile European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rituals of the Past

    Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology

    Edited by Silvana Rosenfeld, Stefanie Bautista ...
    Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the West

    A History of the Human Community

    by William H. McNeill ...
    "The most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind." —H. R. Trevor-Roper, The New York Times Book ReviewThe Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Aztecs

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Carrasco ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book presents a very short introduction to the Aztecs using interpretive tools from religious studies and anthropology to uncover the paradox of Aztec life; on the one hand a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry and philosophic rhetoric while on the other hand a people profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • In Search Of The First Civilizations

    by Michael Wood ...
    Five thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed in Egypt, India, China and the Americas. The ideals of these ancient civilizations still shape the lives of the majority of mankind. In Search of the First Civilizations (previously published as Legacy) asks the ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • The Aztecs

    by Michael E. Smith ...
    Series series Peoples of America
    The Aztecs brings to life one of the best-known indigenous civilizations of the Americas in a vivid, comprehensive account of the ancient Aztecs.A thorough examination of Aztec origins and civilization including religion, science, and thoughtIncorporates the latest archaeological excavations and research into explanations of the Spanish conquest and the continuity of Aztec culture in Central ... Read more

    $38.00 USD