Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Anchor; 1st Anchor Books Ed edition (February 1, 1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 0385418493 In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little-known “hinge” of history, Thomas Cahill takes us to the “island of saints and scholars,” the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells. Here, far from the barbarian despoliation of [...]
Library Binding: 3 pages Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (July 27, 2001) Language: English ISBN-10: 0415145325 This important new work is the first comprehensive reference to the rapidly developing field of international political economy [IPE]. Featuring over 1200 A-Z entries, the coverage encompasses the full range of issues, concepts, and institutions associated with IPE in its various forms. Comprehensively cross-referenced [...]
Paperback: 408 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; New Ed edition (August 24, 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 0192853716 In the introduction to the Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe, T.C.W. Blanning argues that, in many ways, the essence of modern man is that he is self-consciously dynamic. We are attracted to change–it captures the eye much more than stability. [...]
Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 16, 2001) Language: English ISBN-10: 0192892592 Lloyd Gartner presents, in chronologically-arranged chapters, the story of the changing fortunes of the Jewish communities of the Old World (in Europe and the Middle East and beyond) and their gradual expansion into the New World of the Americas. The book starts in 1650, [...]
Paperback: 422 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; New Ed edition (September 7, 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 0192853732 How has war shaped modern society and vice versa? How has it changed over the centuries between the introduction of firearms and the invention of the atom bomb? How is war waged today? This book examines the techniques, technology, and theory [...]
