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Fifty Years of Change: Short History of World Politics Since 1945
By Charles L. Robertson. 1997
The past half-century has seen many hopes raised and some dashed, a succession of fears and false alarms, and both…
triumphs and calamities that were almost entirely unexpected. This work offers a short but sweeping history of world politics since 1945: America's postwar pre-eminence and the hopes that attended the creation of the United Nations; the Cold War and the emergence of a volatile Third World; economic transformations and the twin threat of nuclear and ecological disaster; the crumbling of the Soviet system and the short-lived promise of a peaceful, prosperous and democratic new world. The author describes these momentous changes concisely in an effort to show how we got here from there and what we might have learned along the way.The Age of Faith: The Story of Civilization, Volume IV
By Will Durant. 1950
The fourth volume in Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, The Age of Faith surveys the medieval achievements and modern significance…
of Christian, Islamic, and Judaic life and culture. Like the other volumes in the Story of Civilization series, this is a self-contained work, which at the same time fits into a comprehensive history of mankind. It includes the dramatic stories of St. Augustine, Hypatia, Justinian, Mohammed, Harun al-Rashid, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, Maimonides, St. Francis, St. Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, and many others, all in the perspective of integrated history. The greatest love stories in literature - of Héloise and Abélard, of Dante and Beatrice - are here retold with enthralling scholarship.Listen to Ngarrindjeri Women Speaking: Kungun Ngarrindjeri Miminar Yunnan
By Diane Bell. 2008
The Ngarridjeri women of South Australia reveal their thoughts, daily challenges, and visions for the future in this moving book.…
The stories range from charming and delightful to jarring and shocking, and delve into matters both social and personal--including the Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy. Serving as a model for how indigenous and nonindigenous women can jointly write a book, this narrative can help indigenous women in other communities develop their own collective history and visions for the future.Another Year in Africa
By Rose Zwi. 1995
They came from the stetl to a new land, to a new life. Another year in Africa, they said, another…
year in exile. The old world of pogroms is challenged by their new lives in Africa and the child Ruth is haunted by memories of tragedy and persecution that are not even hers.The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
By Peter Eichstaedt. 2014
How do we balance border security and America's need for a vital workforce while continuing to provide access to the…
American dream? Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the U.S.-Mexico border, transforming America's legendary Southwest into a frontier of fear. Veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt roams this fabled region from Tucson, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, meeting with migrants, border security advocates, and communities ravaged by cross-border crime. He rides with the border patrol and reveals the tragic situation that has evolved along the border. Eichstaedt finds that despite tens of thousands of border agents and the expenditure of billions of dollars, an estimated one million Mexicans and Central Americans continue to cross the border each year. These migrants fill jobs that have become the underpinnings of the U.S. economy. Rather than building more and better barricades, Eichstaedt argues that the United States must reform its immigration and drug laws and acknowledge that costly, counterproductive, and antiquated policies have created deadly circumstances on both sides of the border. Recognizing the truth of America's long and tortured relations with Mexico must be followed by legitimizing the contributions made by migrants to the American way of life.The Admiral and Ambassador: One Man's Obsessive Search for the Body of John Paul Jones
By Scott Martelle. 2014
As the French Revolution gathered steam, the exact location of Jones's grave--and, in fact, the exact location of St. Louis…
cemetery in Paris, where he was buried in 1792--was forgotten: information on his death and burial were destroyed in the Paris Commune and the few who had attended his burial had passed away. His body had, though, been preserved in a lead-lined coffin filled with alcohol; theoretically, if the coffin could be located, Jones could be returned to the United States for proper burial. The Admiral and the Ambassador details Porter's long, unrelenting search for that coffin, first through scraps of archive material and written recollections of funeral attendees, and then beneath the rickety buildings that had been constructed over what he believed to be the graveyard. This book, the only full-length account of the search for and discovery of John Paul Jones's body, offers a fascinating look into the charismatic, real-life characters who populated the first century of the United States of America.Precolonial Black Africa
By Cheikh Anta Diop, Harold Salemson. 1987
This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern…
states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology
By Cheikh Anta Diop, Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi. 1991
Rousseau and Revolution: The Story of Civilization, Volume X
By Will Durant, Ariel Durant. 1967
The Story of Civilization, Volume X: winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany…
from 1756, and in the rest of Europe from 1715 to 1789. Pulitzer Prize WinnerWorld War I for Kids: A History with 21 Activities
By R. Kent Rasmussen. 2014
An educational and interactive children's guide to the Great War In time for the 2014 centennial of the start of…
the Great War, this activity book provides an intriguing and comprehensive look at World War I, which involved all of the world's superpowers during a time of great technological and societal change. Emphasizing connections among events as well as the war's influence on later historical developments, it leads young readers to fully understand the most important aspects of the war, including how the war came about, how changing military technology caused the western front to bog down into a long stalemate, how the war fostered an era of rapid technological advances, and how the entry of the United States helped end the war. The book explores topics of particular interest to kids, such as turn-of-the-20th-century weaponry, air and naval warfare, and the important roles animals played in the war. Relevant crosscurricular activities expand on concepts introduced and illuminate the era of the early 1900s, including making a periscope, teaching a dog to carry messages, making a parachute, learning a popular World War I song, and more.Marco Polo for Kids: His Marvelous Journey to China, 21 Activities
By Janis Herbert. 2001
The Far East comes alive in this activity book centered on Marco Polo's journey to China from Venice along the…
13th-century Silk Road. Kids will join Marco as he travels by caravan through vast deserts and over steep mountain ranges, stopping in exotic cities and humble villages, until at last he arrives at the palace of the Kublai Khan. Woven throughout the tale are 21 activities that highlight the diverse cultures Marco encountered along the way. Activities include making a mythical map, creating a mosaic, fun with Feng Shui, making paper, and putting on a wayang-kulit (shadow-puppet play). Just for fun, kids will learn a few words of Turkish, Persian, Mongol, Hindi, and Chinese. A complete resource section with magnificent museums and their Web sites invites kids to embark on their own expedition of discovery.Women and Their Gardens: A History from the Elizabethan Era to Today
By Catherine Horwood. 2010
From the golden age in English history to today's gardeners and designers, this volume recognizes women's contributions to gardening in…
Britain and around the world spanning more than four centuries. Despite growing vegetables for their kitchens, tending herbs for their medicine cupboards, and teaching other women about the craft before agricultural schools officially existed, women have been mere footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. These pioneers' influence on the style of gardens in the present day is illustrated here in a style both accessible and scholarly. Presenting a rare bouquet, this collection shares the stories of more than 200 women who have been involved with garden design, plant collecting, flower arranging, botanical art, garden writing, and education.Delhi: Pages From a Forgotten History
By Arthur Dudney. 2015
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where…
we started And know the place for the first time - Four Quartets T S Eliot The megacity that is today s Delhi is built upon thick layers of history For a millennium Delhi has been at the crossroads of trade culture and politics The stories of its buildings and great historical personalities have been told many times but this book approaches the past of India s capital through its literary culture By focusing on writers and thinkers we meet a colourful cast of characters only glancingly mentioned in political histories Many Delhiites are surprised to learn that the language of their city s cultural heyday was Persian Despite first being brought to India by invaders it eventually became an authentically Indian language used in both administration and literature Although it was cultivated by an elite it was also a widely available language of aspiration and opportunity like English today It connected India to the wider world and the Indian Subcontinent particularly Delhi was once a place where talented poets and scholars from the whole Persian cultural world from Turkey to eastern China came to make their fortunes Its traces remain everywhere but Persian is effectively a dead language in India todayVictorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs
By John Thomson. 1994
Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays -- by…
Thomson himself or social activist Adolphe Smith -- that offer sharply drawn vignettes of lower-class laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and other street people. A treasure trove of astonishing historical detail.Wartime Farm
By Ruth Goodman, Alexander Langlands, Peter Ginn. 2012
During World War Two Britain had to look to the land to provide the produce it had previously shipped in…
from abroad, meaning huge changes on both the agricultural and domestic scenes. Accompanying an 8-part BBC series and written by the three presenters who spend a year living on a reconstructed farm from the era, Wartime Farm sets these changes within a historical context and looks at the day-to-day life of that time. Exploring a fascinating chapter in Britain's recent history, we see how our predecessors lived and thrived in difficult conditions with extreme frugality and ingenuity. From growing your own vegetables and keeping chickens in the back yard, to having to 'make do and mend', many of the challenges faced by wartime Britons have resonance today. Fascinating historical detail and atmospheric story-telling make this a truly compelling read.The Ragged Edge: A US Marine's Account of Leading the Iraqi Army Fifth Battalion
By Michael Zacchea, Paul D. Eaton, Ted Kemp. 2017
Deployed to Iraq in March 2004 after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, US Marine Michael Zacchea thought he had landed…
a plum assignment. His team's mission was to build, train, and lead in combat the first Iraqi Army battalion trained by the US military.Quickly, he realized he was faced with a nearly impossible task. With just two weeks' training based on outdated and irrelevant materials, no language instruction, and few cultural tips for interacting with his battalion of Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Yazidis, and others, Zacchea arrived at his base in Kirkush to learn his recruits would need beds, boots, uniforms, and equipment. His Iraqi officer counterparts spoke little English. He had little time to transform his troops—mostly poor, uneducated farmers—into a cohesive rifle battalion that would fight a new insurgency erupting across Iraq.In order to stand up a fighting battalion, Zacchea knew, he would have to understand his men. Unlike other combat Marines in Iraq at the time, he immersed himself in Iraq's culture: learning its languages, eating its foods, observing its traditions—even being inducted into one of its Sunni tribes. A constant source of both pride and frustration, the Iraqi Army Fifth Battalion went on to fight bravely at the Battle of Fallujah against the forces that would eventually form ISIS.The Ragged Edge is Zacchea's deeply personal and powerful account of hopeful determination, of brotherhood and betrayal, and of cultural ignorance and misunderstanding. It sheds light on the dangerous pitfalls of training foreign troops to fight murderous insurgents and terrorists, precisely when such wartime collaboration is happening more than at any other time in US history.Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
By Laura Sook Duncombe. 2017
In the first-ever Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled…
the Seven Seas tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside—and sometimes in command of—their male counterparts. These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common: a desire for freedom. History has largely ignored these female swashbucklers, until now. Here are their stories, from ancient Norse princess Alfhild and warrior Rusla to Sayyida al-Hurra of the Barbary corsairs; from Grace O'Malley, who terrorized shipping operations around the British Isles during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; to Cheng I Sao, who commanded a fleet of four hundred ships off China in the early nineteenth century.Author Laura Sook Duncombe also looks beyond the stories to the storytellers and mythmakers. What biases and agendas motivated them? What did they leave out? Pirate Women explores why and how these stories are told and passed down, and how history changes depending on who is recording it. It's the most comprehensive overview of women pirates in one volume and chock-full of swashbuckling adventures that pull these unique women from the shadows into the spotlight that they deserve.Women Who Ruled: History's 50 Most Remarkable Women
By Claudia Gold. 2015
'Poisoners', 'whores', 'witches' and 'murderers' - or so their enemies claimed. From Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, to the villainous Catherine…
de Medici and her flying squadron, to England's 'Gloriana' Elizabeth I, and the modern phenomenon of female prime ministers - Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto - Claudia Gold looks at three and a half thousand years of history to examine the lives of fifty of the world's most exceptional rulers - all of them women.Each biographical profile sets its subject clearly in the culture and context of its time, enabling the author not only to tell the stories of these 50 astonishing women, but also to provide a fascinating and informative alternative social history.How Do We Look: The Body, The Divine, And The Question Of Civilization
By Mary Beard. 2018
From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the…
history of art religion and humanity Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to How Do We Look and The Eye of Faith the famed Civilisations shows on PBS renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art Focusing in Part I on the Olmec heads of early Mesoamerica the colossal statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III and the nudes of classical Greece Beard explores the power hierarchy and gender politics of the art of the ancient world and explains how it came to define the so-called civilized world In Part II Beard chronicles some of the most breathtaking religious imagery ever made whether at Angkor Wat Ravenna Venice or in the art of Jewish and Islamic calligraphers to show how all religions ancient and modern have faced irreconcilable problems in trying to picture the divine With this classic volume Beard redefines the Western-and male-centric legacies of Ernst Gombrich and Kenneth ClarkEros the Bittersweet: An Essay
By Anne Carson. 1986
The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire…
(such as triangulation. or loving what others love), yet offering new solutions to old problems, like the proper interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus. On the frequently discussed effect of literacy on Greek civilization, the book offers a fresh view: it was no accident that the poets who invented Eros were also the first readers and writers of the Western literate tradition.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.