Carey Hilary M. Empires of Religion

Publisher: Berkshire Publishing Group. Publication date: 2005. ISBN: 0974309109. Number of pages: 2220. Format / Quality: PDF. Language: English. Grade 10 Up–Although the 538 articles in this set are arranged alphabetically, the approach is thematic, with entries and sidebars "showing connections and interactions, through trade, warfare, migration, religion, and diplomacy over time and place. " Volume one opens with an overview of human history t...

New York: Facts On File, Inc. , 2004. - 593 p. The early civilizations of Asia arose over a vast territory that stretched from the region of modern Afghanistan and the Aral Sea to Japan and Korea, and from what's now Sri Lanka to the islands to Southeast Asia. For grades 9 and up, an introduction to the region's history is followed by alphabetical entries that cover archaeological sites, agricultural and economic development, personalities and p...

Greenwood Press, 2007. - 1016 p. In 1800, Europeans governed about one-third of the world's land surface; by the start of World War I in 1914, Europeans had imposed some form of political or economic ascendancy on over 80 percent of the globe. The basic structure of global and European politics in the twentieth century was fashioned in the previous century out of the clash of competing imperial interests and the effects, both beneficial and harm...

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A Division of Lexington Books. 2009. 370 pages. Language: English. Confronting Genocide is a collection of essays by recognized scholars. In addition to theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Sudan from their own unique vantage point. Appendi...

Cambridge Univercity press, 2011. - 1108 p. This major work of academic reference provides the first comprehensive survey of political thought in Europe, North America and Asia in the century following the French Revolution. Written by a distinguished team of international scholars, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes firmly established as the principal reference source for the history of political thought. In a series...

Malden – Oxford – Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. – 367 p. – (The peoples of Europe). The Vandals have not been treated kindly by history, or by historians. For almost a hundred years, the group exerted a massive influence over the crumbling Roman world. From ad 439 when the Vandals first occupied Carthage, they created a strikingly precocious kingdom in the shadow of the old empire. For half a century they dominated the politics of the Medit...

New-York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. - 480 p. In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of the continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formati...

ABC-CLIO, 2003 - 1208 p. ISBN10: 1576073351 ISBN13: 9781576073353 (eng) Page, professor of history at East Tennessee State University, has edited a work that deals with "modern" colonialism, from about 1400 C.E. to the present. Its intended audience is high-school students, undergraduates, and the general public. There are more than 600 entries varying in length from half a page to four and a half pages. Entries cover geographical concepts and e...

Praeger Publishers, 2007. - 196 p. Sex sells, they say, but even today it is considered forbidden or sinful by many in the Western world. This book is an account of the ways in which sexual pleasure has been devalued and demonized in the West by the historical forces of Christendom. It tells the story of how sex came to be regarded by societies throughout the ages as perverse, sinful, and wrong, and how the centuries-old motivations of a few hav...