Potosi

Kris Lane

• Hardcover | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 27
• "For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."-- New York Review of Boo... Lees meer

Island World

Gary Y Okihiro

• Hardcover | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 8
• Brilliantly mixing geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, Gary Y. Okihiro overturns the customary narrative in which the United S... Lees meer

Margins of the Market

Johan Mathew

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 24
• What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or the perversion of free trade? Trafficking occurs thousan... Lees meer

A Global History of Runaways

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 28
• During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of all kinds--slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sa... Lees meer

History and the Testimony of Language

Christopher Ehret

• Hardcover | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 16
• This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applyin... Lees meer

Domesticating the World

Jeremy Prestholdt

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 6
• This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon--and one driven solely by Western interests--by offering a compelling new ... Lees meer

Mediterraneans

Julia A Clancy-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 15
• Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south ... Lees meer

Potosi

Kris Lane

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library
• "For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."-- The New York Review of... Lees meer

A Global History of Gold Rushes

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 25
• Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the searc... Lees meer

A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 26
• Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on sci... Lees meer

The Unending Frontier

John F Richards

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 1
• It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach-and their numbers-as never before. In the p... Lees meer

Imperial Connections

Thomas R Metcalf

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 4
• An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India... Lees meer

Domesticating the World

Jeremy Prestholdt

• Hardcover | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 6
• This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon--and one driven solely by Western interests--by offering a compelling new ... Lees meer

Margins of the Market

Johan Mathew

• Hardcover | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 24
• What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or the perversion of free trade? Trafficking occurs thousan... Lees meer

Mediterraneans

Julia A. Clancy-Smith

• Hardcover | California World History Library
• Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south ... Lees meer

Many Middle Passages

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 5
• This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these... Lees meer

The World Hunt

John F Richards

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library
• Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focus... Lees meer

A Global History of Gold Rushes

• Hardcover | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 25
• Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the searc... Lees meer

The Graves of Tarim

Engseng Ho

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 3
• The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Ranging from Arabia to India an... Lees meer

The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi

• Hardcover | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 13
• In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut... Lees meer

Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route

Steven E Sidebotham

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 18
• The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire's heyday, eq... Lees meer

Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves

Kevin P McDonald

• Hardcover | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 21
• In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according ... Lees meer

Haj to Utopia

Maia Ramnath

• Hardcover | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 19
• In Haj to Utopia , Maia Ramnath tells the dramatic story of Ghadar, the Indian anticolonial movement that attempted overthrow of the British Empire. F... Lees meer

History and the Testimony of Language

Christopher Ehret

• Paperback | Engels | California World History Library | nr. 16
• This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applyin... Lees meer