This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical professi

This innovative book examines cross-cultural encounters before 1492, focusing in particular on the major cross-cultural influences that transformed Asia and Eur

This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical professi

For review see: J.W. Schulte Nordholt, in Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, jrg. 107, nr. 4 (1994); p. 591-592.

People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an inst