Parish P.J. Slavery: History and Historians

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003. 296 pages. Language: English. Donald Bloxham here examines the actions and trials of German soldiers and policemen, the use of legal evidence, the refractory functions of the courtroom, and Allied political and cultural preconceptions of both 'Germanism' and of German criminality. His evidence shows conclusively that the trials were a failure: the greatest of all 'crimes against humanity' — the 'final so...

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. - 403 p. Отзыв редактора - Library Journal vol. 133 iss. 7 p. 94 (c) 04/15/2008 Brauer (economics) and van Tuyll (history), professors at Augusta State University, GA, here examine military history from the Middle Ages to the present through the lens of economics, intending to explain economic concepts in simple and accessible terms to a readership with a background in history. In-depth economic discu...

Wadsworth, 2011. - 507 pages. 6th edition. Explore common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time with THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, 6e. This brief overview of world history covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help you gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive chara...

Wadsworth Publishing, 2011. - 544 pages. 6th edition Explore common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time with THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, 6e. This brief overview of world history covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help you gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinc...

Wadsworth Publishing, 2010 - 844 p. ISBN10: 0495902276 ISBN13: 9780495902270 (eng) Explore common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time with THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, 6e. This brief overview of world history covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help you gain an appreciation and...

Wadsworth Publishing, 2008 - 973 p. For courses entitled World Civilizations or World History. Volume II can be used for Modern World History. Courses are generally two semesters or three quarters in length and are Freshman/Sophomore level. Some schools offer a one-semester course - these are usually for people who are becoming teachers and may be taught out of the School of Education. This is a growing course, and it may be replacing Western Ci...

Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (October 30, 2009), 976 pages, English, ISBN-10: 0521530369, ISBN-13: 978-0521530361 This book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a hitherto unrecognized pattern of political and cultural integration that was governed by Eurasian-wi...

Cambridge University Press, 1993. - 356 p. Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In Part One of this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G.S. Hodgson, a former professor of history at the University of Chicago, challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink...

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...

Bodmin: Mpg books Ltd, 1998. - 296 p. Essays issuing from the World History Conference held at Wesleyan University on March 25-26, 1994. An early reviwer said this of the volume: "We have here a very valuable collection that must help anyone to clarify what world history is. This is by no means a hegemonic book, where we end up being told how to 'do' world history. To the contrary, the collection is particularly useful because it represents so m...