American economic history describes the transition of a handful of struggling settlements on the Atlantic seaboard into the nation with the most successful economy in the world today. As the economy has developed, so have the methods used by economic historians to analyze the process. Interest in economic history has sharply increased in recent years among the public, policy-ma...(展开全部)

This is the most comprehensive and significant statement about the value and potential of economic geography in thirty years. More than forty leading economists and geographers from around the world investigate the rival theories and perspectives that have sustained the recent development of economic geography, and offer stimulating insights into the emerging global economy of ...(展开全部)

The first fifteen years of the 21st century have thrown into sharp relief the challenges of growth, equity, stability, and sustainability facing the world economy. In addition, they have exposed the inadequacies of mainstream economics in providing answers to these challenges. This volume gathers over 50 leading scholars from around the world to offer a forward-looking perspect...(展开全部)

- Follows the evolution of environmental history from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies. - Authors both review past developments in environmental history and project future trends. - Original articles by 27 authors. The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches ...(展开全部)

The historical study of food, culture, and society has become established within the academy based on a generation of high-quality scholarship. Following the foundational work of the French Annales school, the International Committee for the Research into European Food History and the Institut Europeen d'Histoire et des Cultures de l'Alimentation have conducted wide-ranging res...(展开全部)

- The best guide to current thinking in one of the most dynamic fields of historical scholarship - Thirty-two essays by leading scholars in their respective fields - Explores issues identified by contemporary world historians as of paramount importance - Coverage includes conceptions of the global past, themes in world history, processes of world history, and regions in world h...(展开全部)

The Oxford Handbook of World History presents thirty-three essays by leading historians in their respective fields. The chapters address the most important issues explored by contemporary world historians. These broadly fall into four categories: conceptions of the global past, themes in world history, processes of world history, regions in world history. Those chapters on conc...(展开全部)

- Follows the evolution of environmental history from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies. - Authors both review past developments in environmental history and project future trends. - Original articles by 27 authors. The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches ...(展开全部)

The study of the desire, acquisition, use, and disposal of goods and services, consumption, has grown enormously in recent years, and has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global consumerism? Questions of con...(展开全部)