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A comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship. It features forty-four articles that take stock of the history, evolving literature, and the trajectories of new world history.
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An anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. It contains sections on... Læs mere
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A series of Chinese commentaries on the USA, including extracts from the travel diaries of 19th-century... Læs mere
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A nuanced interpretation of Galileo's 1632 book, "Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems", that gives readers the tools to understand and evaluate for themselves one of the most influential scientific books in Western civilization.
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Jean de Lery had undertaken his arduous voyage to the land of Brazil in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. This title presents a translation of an early European account of life in the New World.
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This is a translation into English of the complete "Yin-Hai Jing-Wei", a classic 15th-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. This work offers an unprecedented view of the practice of medicine, and specifically eye care, in pre-modern China.
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An account of the author's journey through portions of southwest India while he was on sick leave from the British Indian army. It provides a look at the people who inhabited a part of India that was generally off the beaten track in the nineteenth century.
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For years, many of Twain's philosophical, religious, and historical fantasies concerning the nature and condition of humanity remained unpublished. This title includes thirty-six of these writings.
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The grammarian was a pivotal figure in the lives of the educated upper classes of late antiquity. This profession contributed to the social as well as cultural continuity of the Empire. This title provides a study of the place and function of this important but ambiguous figure.