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World Hunt
An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals
Häftad, 2014
227 kr
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The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and world economy. A comprehensive digest of the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this book explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in …
Potosi
The Silver City That Changed the World
Av Kris Lane
Häftad, 2021
244 kr
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"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane’s book is the ideal place to begin."—The New York Review of BooksIn 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver …
Maps of Time
An Introduction to Big History
Häftad, 2011
300 kr
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An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, "Maps of Time" is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the interaction of the natural world with the more …
Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route
Inbunden, 2011
755 kr
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The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire's heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 …
Graves of Tarim
Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean
Av Engseng Ho
Häftad, 2006
306 kr
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"The Graves of Tarim" narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges - in kinship and writing - that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim …
Pilgrim Art
Cultures of Porcelain in World History
Inbunden, 2010
755 kr
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Illuminating one thousand years of history, "The Pilgrim Art" explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe. Cobalt ore was shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century, where it was used to decorate porcelain for Muslims in Southeast Asia, India, …
Unending Frontier
An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
Häftad, 2006
359 kr
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It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach - and their numbers - as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental …
Other West
Latin America from Invasion to Globalization
Inbunden, 2011
1058 kr
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"The Other West" provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. Marcello Carmagnani's award-winning and multidisciplinary analysis sheds new light on …
Many Middle Passages
Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World
Av Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
306 kr
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This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, …
Domesticating the World
African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization
Häftad, 2008
456 kr
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This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon - and one driven solely by Western interests - by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material …
Domesticating the World
African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization
Inbunden, 2008
667 kr
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This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon - and one driven solely by Western interests - by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material …
Servants of the Dynasty
Palace Women in World History
Häftad, 2008
315 kr
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Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written …
Environment and World History
Av Edmund Burke III, Kenneth Pomeranz
Häftad, 2009
315 kr
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Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven …
Imperial Connections
India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920
Häftad, 2008
288 kr
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An innovative remapping of empire, "Imperial Connections" offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became …
Quest for the Lost Nation
Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century
Inbunden, 2010
755 kr
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Highly praised when published in Germany, "The Quest for the Lost Nation" is a brilliant chronicle of Germany's and Japan's struggles to reclaim a defeated national past. Sebastian Conrad compares the ways German and Japanese scholars revised national history after World War-II in the shadows of …
Island World
A History of Hawai'i and the United States
Häftad, 2008
271 kr
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Brilliantly mixing geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, Gary Y. Okihiro overturns the customary narrative in which the United States acts upon and dominates Hawai'i. Instead, "Island World" depicts the islands' press against the continent, endowing America's story with fresh …
Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914
Inbunden, 2010
1058 kr
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In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked …
History and the Testimony of Language
Inbunden, 2010
940 kr
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This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applying language evidence in historical studies. He demonstrates how these methods allow us not only to recover the histories of time periods and places …
History and the Testimony of Language
Häftad, 2010
456 kr
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This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applying language evidence in historical studies. He demonstrates how these methods allow us not only to recover the histories of time periods and places …
Pineapple Culture
A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones
Häftad, 2009
244 kr
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Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics, where it came to dominate U.S. and world markets. Pineapple Culture is a dazzling history of the world's tropical and temperate zones told through the pineapple's …
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa
Inbunden, 2011
755 kr
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Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, …
Other West
Latin America from Invasion to Globalization
Häftad, 2011
315 kr
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"The Other West" provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. Marcello Carmagnani's award-winning and multidisciplinary analysis sheds new light on …
Haj to Utopia
How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire
Av Maia Ramnath
Inbunden, 2011
867 kr
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In Haj to Utopia, Maia Ramnath tells the dramatic story of Ghadar, the Indian anticolonial movement that attempted overthrow of the British Empire. Founded by South Asian immigrants in California, Ghadar--which is translated as "mutiny"--quickly became a global presence in East Asia, Europe, the …
Haj to Utopia
How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire
Av Maia Ramnath
Häftad, 2011
315 kr
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In "The Haj to Utopia", Maia Ramnath tells the dramatic story of Ghadar, the Indian anticolonial movement that attempted overthrow of the British Empire. Founded by South Asian immigrants in California, Ghadar - which is translated as 'mutiny' - quickly became a global presence in East Asia, …
Mediterraneans
North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800–1900
Häftad, 2012
315 kr
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Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, offers the fullest picture to date of the Mediterranean …
Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914
Häftad, 2013
271 kr
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In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked …
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa
Häftad, 2014
359 kr
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Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, …
Sky Blue Stone
The Turquoise Trade in World History
Häftad, 2014
270 kr
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This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along …
Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves
Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2015
535 kr
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In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according to Kevin P. McDonald, they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American …
Black London
The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
Av Marc Matera
Inbunden, 2015
1190 kr
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This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving …
