General, Encyclopedias

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story throug …

The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to …

The fully revised second edition of this successful volume includes updates on the latest archaeological research in all chapters, and two new essays on Greek and Roman art. It retains its unique, pa …

In this stimulating new text, renowned military historian Jeremy Black unpacks the concept of culture as a descriptive and analytical approach to the history of warfare. Black takes the reader throug …

In this third edition of his widely acclaimed survey, historian Randall D. Law makes sense of the history of terrorism by examining it within its broad political, religious and social contexts from t …

WHEN the Emperor Diocletian, towards the end of the third century A. D., set himself to reorganize the government of the known world, his stout heart may well have quailed before the magnitude of the …

IN days long long ago there dwelt in Greenland a King named Eric the Red. He was a man mighty in war, and men held him in high honour. Now one day to the court of Eric there came Bjarni the son of He …

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject World History – General and Comparison, , course: World history- Early to Modern Theo-political history, language: English, abstract: …

Document from the year 2008 in the subject History – Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the history of Bratislava from 1st century until 21st century. 1. 1st – 10th c …

The Norsemen are a Germanic race, and belong, accordingly, to the Aryan family. Their next of kin are the Swedes and Danes. Their original home was Asia, and probably that part of Asia which the anci …