"The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 1 takes us from the origin of hominids to ancient civilizations, the rise of empires, and the Middle Age ..."
"The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 1 takes us from the origin of hominids to ancient civilizations, the rise of empires, and the Middle Age ..."
Painting the Toon by JohnCoatsworth Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2013 by Mcnidder & Grace ISBN-13: 978-0-85716-024-9, ISBN: 0-85716-024-9
"John Coatsworth has produced some of the most instantly recognisable images of Tyneside over the last 12 years. This beautiful book includes many of the famous Newcastle landmarks including the Quayside, the Tyne Bridge, Grey Street and St James' Park have all been depicted in his unique 'bendy' style. This dramatic and distinctive style is in great demand."
"Volume Two treats the 'long twentieth century' from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. It analyzes the principal dimensions of Latin America's first era of sustained economic growth from the last decades of the nineteenth century to 1930. It explores the era of inward-looking development from the 1930s to the collapse of import-substituting industrialization and the return to strategies of globalization in the 1980s. Fi ..."
"The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 2 takes us from the early modern period to speculation about the world in 2050, visiting diverse civili ..."
"This classic history of the Mexican hacienda from the colonial period through the nineteenth century has been reissued in a silver anniversary edition complete with a substantive new introduction and foreword. Eric Van Young explores 150 years of Mexico's economic and rural development, a period when one of history's great empires was trying to extract more resources from its most important colony, and when an arguably capitalist econom ..."
"Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship of revolts by peasants and Indians in Mexico to the past century of U.S. intervention—from the rural rebellions of the 1840s through the 1910 revolution to the 1994 uprising in Chiapas. T ..."
"For the Inca, see Maria Rostworowski and Craig Morris, "The Fourfold Domain:
Inka Power and Its Social Foundations," in The ... NM, 1984) and Jonathon E.
Ericson and Timothy K. Earle, eds., Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange (New York,
1982). ... OK, 1992), 18- 29; Timothy Earle, How Chiefs Come to Power: The
Political Economy in Prehistory (Stanford, CA, 1997); ... The Earle book is also a
very recent discussion of chiefdoms and th ..."
"Provides access to the current state of expert knowledge about Latin America's economic past from the Spanish conquest to the beginning of the twenty-first century. It includes work from diverse perspectives, disciplines, and methodologies from qualitative historical analysis of policies and institutions to cliometrics, the new institutional economics, and environmental sciences. Each chapter provides a comparative analysis of economi ..."
"As long as this army of Hefat is calm, the whole land is calm, but if one steps on
its tail like that of a crocodile, then the north ... monkeys, and baboons, some of
which no doubt reached Punt from further down the African coast or across the
Red Sea. The brilliant blue stone lapis lazuli arrived all the way from Badakhshan
in northeastern Afghanistan, some 2,500 miles ... chariots and horses entered
Egyptian warfare, a fact that ..."
"The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 1 takes us from the origin of hominids to ancient civilizations, the rise of empires, and the Middle Age ..."
"Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History John Coatsworth, Juan Cole,
Michael P. Hanagan, Peter C. ... still depend on two other factors we have
encountered before: their integration with categorical differences, and their
relation to concentrated means of coercion. Although financial capital,
information, and science have incorporated existing distinctions by gender, age,
race, ethnicity, and religion to some ... But th ..."
"In fact, as William Summerhill has shown for Brazil and Sandra Kuntz Ficker has
shown for Mexico, most of the commodities
carriedbyLatinAmericanrailwaysweredestinedfordomestic(notinterna- tional)
markets.4 Finally, depreciating real exchange rates operated exactly the same as
an across-the-board increase in import tariffs: they raised the domestic price of
imported goods. Latin America's merchants, who earlier had been importing
m ..."
""Rural Revolt in Mexico" is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship of revolts by peasants and Indians in Mexico to the past century of U.S. intervention--from the rural rebellions of the 1840s through the 1910 revolution to the 1994 uprising in Chiapas ..."
Enterprising Educators Helping Teachers to Teach and Children to Learn: A School-Based Guide by Jenny Hayward, Norma Iredale, JohnCoatsworth Hardcover, 161 Pages, Published 1994 by Durham University Business School ISBN-13: 978-1-85773-074-6, ISBN: 1-85773-074-7
"Historians and economists will find here what their fields have in common--the movement since the 1950s known variously as "cliometrics," "economic history," or "historical economics." A leading figure in the movement, Donald McCloskey, has compiled, with the help of George Hersh and a panel of distinguished advisors, the only bibliography of historical economics. The many thousands of items cover all countries for all periods in which ..."
Primary Enterprise A Primary School Approach to Enterprise Education within the National Curriculum by Etc Norma Iredale, JohnCoatsworth Loose Leaf, 292 Pages, Published 1989 by Durham University Business School ISBN-13: 978-0-948608-03-2, ISBN: 0-948608-03-X
"The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 2 takes us from the early modern period to speculation about the world in 2050, visiting diverse civili ..."
" Latin America’s widespread poverty and multi-dimensioned inequalities have long perplexed and provoked observers. Until recently, economic historians could not contribute much to the discussion of living standards and inequality, because quantitative evidence for earlier eras was lacking. Since the 1990s, historians, economists, and other social scientists have sought to document and analyze the historical roots of Latin America’s ..."