Author: Matthias Middell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403984197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Thisbook makes acase for transnationalism as a new academic paradigm through historiographic reflection, analysis, and synthesis, in the hopes of establishing a framework for future studies in transnational history.
European History in an Interconnected World
Author: Matthias Middell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403984197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Thisbook makes acase for transnationalism as a new academic paradigm through historiographic reflection, analysis, and synthesis, in the hopes of establishing a framework for future studies in transnational history.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403984197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Thisbook makes acase for transnationalism as a new academic paradigm through historiographic reflection, analysis, and synthesis, in the hopes of establishing a framework for future studies in transnational history.
Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History 1500-1850
Author: Jack A. Goldstone
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Explores one of the biggest questions of historical debate: how among Eurasia's interconnected centers of power, it was Europe that came to dominate much of the world.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Explores one of the biggest questions of historical debate: how among Eurasia's interconnected centers of power, it was Europe that came to dominate much of the world.
The Pursuit of Power
Author: Richard J. Evans
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241295777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman 'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one great canvas of immense detail and beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Dazzlingly erudite and entertaining' Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times A masterpiece which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change. The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation. The book aims to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural, political and technological changes. It was a time where what was seen as modern with amazing speed appeared old-fashioned, where huge cities sprang up in a generation, new European countries were created and where, for the first time, humans could communicate almost instantly over thousands of miles. In the period bounded by the Battle of Waterloo and the outbreak of World War I, Europe dominated the rest of the world as never before or since: this book breaks new ground by showing how the continent shaped, and was shaped by, its interactions with other parts of the globe. Richard Evans explores fully the revolutions, empire-building and wars that marked the nineteenth century, but the book is about so much more, whether it is illness, serfdom, religion or philosophy. The Pursuit of Power is a work by a historian at the height of his powers: essential for anyone trying to understand Europe, then or now.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241295777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman 'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one great canvas of immense detail and beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Dazzlingly erudite and entertaining' Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times A masterpiece which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change. The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation. The book aims to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural, political and technological changes. It was a time where what was seen as modern with amazing speed appeared old-fashioned, where huge cities sprang up in a generation, new European countries were created and where, for the first time, humans could communicate almost instantly over thousands of miles. In the period bounded by the Battle of Waterloo and the outbreak of World War I, Europe dominated the rest of the world as never before or since: this book breaks new ground by showing how the continent shaped, and was shaped by, its interactions with other parts of the globe. Richard Evans explores fully the revolutions, empire-building and wars that marked the nineteenth century, but the book is about so much more, whether it is illness, serfdom, religion or philosophy. The Pursuit of Power is a work by a historian at the height of his powers: essential for anyone trying to understand Europe, then or now.
The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation
Author: John M. Hobson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521547246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521547246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher Description
Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500
Author: Alida C. Metcalf
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421438526
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includes around 50 beautiful and illuminating historical maps.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421438526
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includes around 50 beautiful and illuminating historical maps.
1968 in Europe
Author: M. Klimke
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230611907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this book covers the history of the various national protest movements, the transnational aspects of these movements, and the common narratives and cultures of memory surrounding them.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230611907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this book covers the history of the various national protest movements, the transnational aspects of these movements, and the common narratives and cultures of memory surrounding them.
The Rise of the West
Author: William H. McNeill
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226561615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
The 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 pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim. In a retrospective essay titled "The Rise of the West after Twenty-five Years," McNeill shows how his book was shaped by the time and place in which it was written (1954-63). He discusses how historiography subsequently developed and suggests how his portrait of the world's past in The Rise of the West should be revised to reflect these changes. "This is not only the most learned and the most intelligent, it is also the most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind. . . . To read it is a great experience. It leaves echoes to reverberate, and seeds to germinate in the mind."—H. R. Trevor-Roper, New York Times Book Review
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226561615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
The 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 pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim. In a retrospective essay titled "The Rise of the West after Twenty-five Years," McNeill shows how his book was shaped by the time and place in which it was written (1954-63). He discusses how historiography subsequently developed and suggests how his portrait of the world's past in The Rise of the West should be revised to reflect these changes. "This is not only the most learned and the most intelligent, it is also the most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind. . . . To read it is a great experience. It leaves echoes to reverberate, and seeds to germinate in the mind."—H. R. Trevor-Roper, New York Times Book Review
European History in a World Perspective: Early modern times
Author: Shepard B. Clough
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780669855555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780669855555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Global Transformation of Time
Author: Vanessa Ogle
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674737024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674737024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.