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  • Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide

    From Mythos to Techne

    by Michael Kimaid ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    This book is about how modernity affects our perceptions of time and space. Its main argument is that geographical space is used to control temporal progress by channeling it to benefit particular political, economic and social interests, or by halting it altogether. By incorporating the ancient Greek myth of the Titanomachy as a conceptual metaphor to explore the elemental ideas of time and space ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • Voyages of the Pyramid Builders

    by Robert M. Schoch ...
    Is it a mere coincidence that pyramids are found throughout our globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces in geography and time, such as the ancient Egyptians; early Bud-dhists; the Maya, Inca, Toltec, and Aztec civilizations of the Americas; the Celts of the British Isles; and even the Mississippi Indians of pre-Columbus Illinois, simply dream the same dreams and envision the same structures ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The City

    A World History

    by Andrew Lees ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Americas

    A Hemispheric History

    by Felipe Fernández-Armesto ...
    From food to the spread of political ideas, the landmass from northern Canada to the southern tip of Argentina is complexly bound together, yet these connections are generally ignored. In this groundbreaking and vividly rendered work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells, for the first time, the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Exploration

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stewart A. Weaver ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than exploration. Wherever trade or faith or empire followed, explorers usually led. Their motives were as many-sided and various as their actions; their legacies are contested and mixed. But none can doubt ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Islandology

    Geography, Rhetoric, Politics

    by Marc Shell ...
    Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits (Greece) and for the establishment of North Sea democracy (England and Iceland), explains the location ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Rome and Provincial Resistance

    by Gil Gambash ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    This book demonstrates and analyzes patterns in the response of the Imperial Roman state to local resistance, focusing on decisions made within military and administrative organizations during the Principate. Through a thorough investigation of the official Roman approach towards local revolt, author Gil Gambash answers significant questions that, until now, have produced conflicting explanations ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • People's History and Socialist Theory (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Raphael Samuel ...
    First published in 1981, this book brings together different types of work by numerous fragmented groups in the field of Marxist history and puts them in dialogue with each other. It takes stock of then recent work, explores the main new lines, and looks at the political and ideological circumstances shaping the direction of historical work, past and present. The scope of the book is international ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Woman in Sacred History

    by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
    The object of the following pages will be to show, in a series of biographical sketches, a history of Womanhood under Divine culture, tending toward the development of that high ideal of woman which we find in modern Christian countries. All the characters comprised in these sketches belong to one nationality. They are of that mysterious and ancient race whose records begin with the dawn of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays for Eric Hobsbawm

    Edited by Raphael Samuel, Gareth Stedman Jones ...
    First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography, for example the relationship of ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’, art and social life, and also some of the newest and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Trails of the Pathfinders

    by George Bird Grinnell ...
    The chapters in this book appeared first as part of a series of articles under the same title contributed to Forest and Stream several years ago. At the time they aroused much interest and there was a demand that they should be put into book form. The books from which these accounts have been drawn are good reading for all Americans. They are at once history and adventure. They deal with a time ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prospect of Global History

    Edited by James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, Chris Wickham ...
    The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth in historical analysis. The Prospect of Global History will speak to those interested in medieval and ancient history as well as modern history. ... Read more

    $22.79 USD