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  • Cities and Citadels

    An Archaeology of Inequality and Economic Growth

    by Adam S. Green, Toby C. Wilkinson, Darryl Wilkinson, Nancy Highcock, Thomas Leppard ...
    Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory.Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us ... Read more

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  • Ancient Africa

    A Global History, to 300 CE

    by Distinguished Research Professor Christopher Ehret ...
    A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world historyThis book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role in the technological, agricultural, and economic transitions of world civilization. Christopher Ehret takes readers from the close of the last Ice Age ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Open Sea

    The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome

    by J. G. Manning ...
    "Ranging over the entire Mediterranean from the Iron Age to the dawn of the Roman Empire, Manning draws on new evidence to rethink ancient history." —Philip T. Hoffman, author of Why Did Europe Conquer the World?In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the ... Read more

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  • Borders

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives. Highlighting the historical development and continued relevance of borders, Alexander Diener and Joshua Hagen offer a powerful counterpoint to the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • World History

    An Introduction

    by Eric Vanhaute ...
    World History: An Introduction provides readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to understand the global historical perspective and how it can be used to shed light on both our past and our present. A concise and original guide to the concepts, methods, debates and contents of world history, it combines a thematic approach with a clear and ambitious focus.Each chapter traces connections ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Ten Thousand Years of Inequality

    The Archaeology of Wealth Differences

    Edited by Timothy A. Kohler, Michael E. Smith ...
    Series series Amerind Studies in Archaeology
    Is wealth inequality a universal feature of human societies, or did early peoples live an egalitarian existence? How did inequality develop before the modern era? Did inequalities in wealth increase as people settled into a way of life dominated by farming and herding? Why in general do such disparities increase, and how recent are the high levels of wealth inequality now experienced in many ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Studies in Culture Contact

    Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

    by Kathleen Deagan, Prudence M. Rice, Robert L. Schuyler, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Edward M. Schortman, Patricia A. Urban, Jonathan D. Hill, Theresa A. Singleton, John Edward Terrell, Gil J. Stein, Stuart Tyson Smith, Michael Dietler, Peter S. Wells, Susan Toby Evans, Christopher R. DeCorse, Douglas V. Armstrong, Rebecca Saunders, Mark J. Wagner, Joel W. Palka, Rani T. Alexander ...
    People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The World System

    Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?

    Edited by Barry Gills, Andre Gunder Frank ...
    The historic long term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the economic 'world system' advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period but Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills think that this date is much too late. They argue an interconnection going back as much as 5000 years. In The World System, leading ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Persian Carpets

    The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

    by Minoo Moallem ...
    Series series Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
    Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the book brings issues of labor into conversation with the politics of aesthetics. It focuses on the carpet as a ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A History of Humanity

    The Evolution of the Human System

    by Patrick Manning ...
    Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Politics of Water

    A Survey

    Edited by Kai Wegerich, Jeroen Warner ...
    Series series Europa Politics of ... series
    This authoritative reference work gives timely information on the global politics of water. Readers will find case studies on a variety of complex water situations, from the Okavango River that flows through Angola, Namibia and Botswana, to the Euphrates-Tigris of the Upper Persian Gulf.With the current threat of climate change and increasing demand on water resources, the book gives valuable ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Ethiopia in Transit

    Millennial Quest for Stability and Continuity

    Edited by Pietro Toggia, Abebe Zegeye ...
    The writings in this edition explore historical and contemporary issues in Ethiopia as the country underwent change and celebrated its new millennium. However, despite the recognizance of socio-economic and political changes, Ethiopia still faces enduring problems and challenges to its stability and continuity. The political past haunts the country while it is facing the future with optimism and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD