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)

- 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)

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)

- 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)

- 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)

During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental Europe to Latin America and Asia. At the same time there has been deepening interest in the origins and history of analytic ph...(展开全部)

In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the past? How have historic urban patterns impacted on those of the contemporary world? And what were the key driv...(展开全部)