Panorama: A World History
Panorama: A World History

Author: Laura J. Mitchell

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Published: 2014-01-03

Total Pages: 944

ISBN-13: 9780073407043

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Just as a panoramic image provides a broad view, Panorama provides a ground-breaking, broad view of the world’s history by reaching across regional boundaries and highlighting large-scale, global patterns. Panorama’s easily understood chronology, coupled with its innovative, proven digital tools, ensures that learners are always moving forward as they study change and continuity across time, assess knowledge gaps, and mold critical thinking skills. The result is improved course performance through greater understanding of our world’s past, its large-scale global trends, and its impact on and relevance to 21st-century students.

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta

Author: Ross E. Dunn

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0520243854

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Ross Dunn's classic retelling of the travels of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim of the 14th century.

Panorama of the Classical World
Panorama of the Classical World

Author: Nigel Spivey

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2011-03

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781606060568

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This imaginative approach to the era in which Western civilization was born is a thorough--and thoroughly accessible--synthesis of the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan worlds, spanning the period from Late Geometric Greece in around 700 b.c., to the rule of Constantine in the early 4th century a.d. The authors incorporate important developments in recent scholarship, including ideas of gender, war and pacifism, imperialism and dissent, political propaganda, economy, cultural identity, racism, hygiene and diet, and public and private uses of space. The book highlights the modern relevance of classical antiquity, from its influence on contemporary politics to the representation of the female body in Western art, and concludes by charting the history of classical civilization. The extensive reference section includes biographies, an introduction to classical mythology, a glossary of technical terms and vase shapes, as well as a timeline, map, bibliography, and index.

Writing New Worlds
Writing New Worlds

Author: Marília dos Santos Lopes

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-05-11

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1443894303

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Writing New Worlds analyses the different ways in which travel literature constituted a fundamental pillar in the production of knowledge in the modern era. The impressive frequency of publication and the widespread circulation of translations and editions account for the leading and essential contribution of travel literature for a better understanding and awareness about the dynamics and practices associated with decoding and making sense of the prose of the world. These texts, in some cases accompanied by illustrations, covered a broad and extensive panoply of languages, grammars and ways of seeing, translating and writing new worlds. In drawing special attention to internationally less-studied sources from Portugal and Germany, the book shows how authors, scholars and artists between the 15th and 17th centuries responded to the challenges of modernity, and explores the cultural dynamics involved in grasping and understanding the New.