Mankind and mother earth :a narrative history of the world

THE celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 called to mind the history of the preceding sixty years, and this retrospect opened up a view of the whole of history which looked clear and simple Between 1837 and 1897 the West had completed the establishment of its ascendancy over all the rest of the World. This was the consummation of a process that had been started, four hundred y…

Touring guide

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336 pages

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In the land of pagodas

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318 pages

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Java the garden of the last

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Current affairs atlas

The journalist is a trained observer. To a de- gree, he can record, explain and interpret events and issues, situations and problems. This book is an exploratory effort, in which the au- thor has attempted to look at the world and see what is going on as a whole.rn

A history of the crusades 3

Bad news travels fast. The battle of Hattin had hardly been fought and lost before messengers hurried westward to inform the princes of Europe; and they were soon followed by others telling of the fall of Jerusalem. Western Christendom learned of the disasters with consternation. In spite of all the appeals that had come from the kingdom of Jerusalem in recent years, no one in the West, except …

the dynamics of world history

AFTER a century and more of historical specialism and archaeological research, of the minute criticism of docu- ments and sources, the time has come when it is becoming possible to reap the fruits of this intensive labour, and to undertake some general synthesis of the new knowledge of man's past that we have acquired. It is

Peradaban Pesisir Menuju Sejarah Budaya Asia Tenggara

Buku ini menceritakan cerita Panji, sebuah Syair Kidung Bali yang amat penting pada abad 18 dan 19 menunjukkan adanya interaksi antara budaya Melayu, Jawa dan Bali

the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century

Cosmologies-systems of belief in general laws governing the uni- verse-have existed since prehistoric times. If the discoveries of modern anthropologists are any guide, they must have been univer- sal from a very early stage of man's development. Certainly all those modern peoples we choose to describe as 'primitive' possess their own cosmologies, which are often both complex and ingenious. The…

Mastering modern world history

Under cover of darkness late on the night of 5 August 1914, five columnsrnrnof German assault troops, which had entered Belgium two days earlier,rnrnwere converging on the town of Liège, expecting little resistance. To theirrnrnsurprise they were halted by determined fire from the town's outlyingrnrnforts. This was a setback for the Germans: control of Liège was essentialrnrnbefore they could…