Old World, New World

Old World, New World

Author: Kathleen Burk

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 844

ISBN-13: 9780802144294

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A history of the relationship between Great Britain and the United States ranges from the establishment of the first English colony in the New World to the present day, examining both nations in terms of what connected them and what drove them apart.


Before Columbus

Before Columbus

Author: Charles C. Mann

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-09-08

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1416949003

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A companion book for young readers based upon the explorations of the Americas in 1491, before those of Christopher Columbus.


The New Old World

The New Old World

Author: Perry Anderson

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2011-11-07

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 1844677214

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The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today’s EU has been theorized across a range of contemporary disciplines. It then moves to more detailed accounts of political and cultural developments in the three principal states of the original Common Market—France, Germany and Italy. A third section explores the interrelated histories of Cyprus and Turkey that pose a leading geopolitical challenge to the Community. The book ends by tracing ideas of European unity from the Enlightenment to the present, and their bearing on the future of the Union. The New Old World offers a critical portrait of a continent now increasingly hailed as a moral and political example to the world at large.


The Old World and America

The Old World and America

Author: Most Rev. Phillip J. Furlong

Publisher: TAN Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1618907263

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A famous 5th-8th grade world history text. Guides the student from Creation through the Flood, pre-historic people, the ancient East, Greeks, Romans, the triumph of the Church, Middle Ages, Renaissance, discovery of the New World and Protestant Revolt, ending with the early exploration of the New World. A great asset for home-schoolers and Catholic schools alike!


An Environmental History of Latin America

An Environmental History of Latin America

Author: Shawn William Miller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-08-27

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1316224325

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A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Human attitudes, populations, and appetites, from Aztec cannibalism to more contemporary forms of conspicuous consumption, figure prominently in the story. However, characters such as hookworms, whales, hurricanes, bananas, dirt, butterflies, guano, and fungi make more than cameo appearances. Recent scholarship has overturned many of our egocentric assumptions about humanity's role in history. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more powerful and more vulnerable than previously thought.


Old World, New World

Old World, New World

Author: Leonard J. Sadosky

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2010-02-09

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0813928524

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Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson grew out of workshops in Salzburg and Charlottesville sponsored by Monticello’s International Center for Jefferson Studies, and revisits a question of long-standing interest to American historians: the nature of the relationship between America and Europe during the Age of Revolution. Study of the American-European relationship in recent years has been moved forward by the notion of Atlantic history and the study of the Atlantic world. The present volume makes a fresh contribution by refocusing attention on the question of the interdependence of Europe and America. Old World, New World addresses topics that are timely, given contemporary public events, but that are also of interest to early modern and modern historians. By turning attention from the Atlantic World in general to the relationship between America and Europe, as well as using Thomas Jefferson as a lens to examine this relationship, this book carves out its own niche in the history of the Atlantic world in the age of revolution.


New Old World

New Old World

Author: Pallavi Aiyar

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 125007231X

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Award-winning journalist Pallavi Aiyar brings a unique Asian perspective to Europe's current crises