Edward B. Barbier 
Scarcity and Frontiers [EPUB ebook] 
How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation

How do we teach about war? How can social studies teachers empower students to understand how wars are started, how they are fought, and how they are ended? Films about war are featured in nearly all …

Britain in the Middle East provides a comprehensive survey of British involvement in the Middle East, exploring their mutual construction and influence across the entire historical sweep of their …

The world’s ancient pyramid sites are considered to be some of the world’s greatest mysteries. For thousands of years, people have only been able to imagine what the purpose of these massive ancient …

This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of ’scholarly personae’, it explores why historians care about attitudes or dispositions that …

This volume, which gathers contributions presented at the annual conferences of l”Association pour le développement de l”histoire culturelle (ADHC), questions the subjects and boundaries of cultura …

Throughout the course of the Second World War, many millions of animals were enlisted to serve. Though they had no choice, yet they demonstrated loyalty, determination and bravery as they shared the …

This book provides a solid and critical historical examination of the endorsement, development and course of Greek nationalism among the lay/clerical leadership of the Greek Orthodox minority of Ista …

In this comprehensive study, Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European exploration and discovery in Australia. The book presents a detailed chronological overview of European …

Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British Empire, at perhaps the height of its power, lost …

This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the political, military, and social history of ancient Rome from the earliest days of the Republic to its collapse and the subsequent foundations of t …