History
Inventing America: A History of the United States
Second Edition
Volume: 1
Paperback
For the Second Edition, the authors have expanded and strengthened the innovation theme and pared some supporting detail to create a more concise...
The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
Paperback
Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once?
Japan: A Modern History
Paperback
Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.
The Revolutionary Era, 1789-1850
Third Edition
Paperback
The Revolutionary Era, Third Edition, provides a vivid historical account of the forces that shaped early nineteenth-century Europe.
France in Modern Times
Fifth Edition
Paperback
This text charts the political history of France from the 18th century to the present, interspersing narrative with chapters on society, the economy, culture and historiography.