This narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century shipping out of Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of counter-exploring, that echoed the ancient voyages of settlement of
Sixteen essays selected from presentations at the Eighth Annual World History Conference (University of Victoria, British Columbia, 1999) address topics pertaining to colonialism in the period 1800 to
Crosby (American studies, U. of Texas, Austin) focuses mainly on the ecological fate of the Americas and their people after their contact with Europe, but others of his dozen essays discuss the overse
This text explores four major features of human society in their ecological and historical context: the origins of priests and organised religion; the rise of military men in an agrarian society; econ
"Will delight the visual learner. ... For the college student, the general reader, and the merely curious". -- American Reference Book Annual"Schmidt has filled a large gap. ... Superio
This volume makes available for the first time in English the narrative reconstruction by the noted Tanzanian author and poet Mathias E. Mnyampala of the history and customs of his people. The work is
An auspicious beginning to a series that will include primary sources, anthologies, and classic and original interpretations relating to world history for the nonspecialist reader. Ghazzali (A.D. 1058
Although the organizing principle of virtually every world history text is "development", the editor of this volume maintains that this traditional approach fails to address the issu
