The New Silk Roads: The New Asia And The Remaking Of The World Order

Ansary, Tamim

In this "terrific" (San Francisco Chronicle) book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age Traveling across millennia and cultures, The Invention of Yesterday argues that world history is a narrative we're constantly inventing. Fifty thousand years ago, we roamed the world as countless autonomous bands of...

Mcdougall, James

A sweeping global history of Islam, tracing the 1,400-year evolution of a diverse community of faith and its place in the modern world "Anyone who wants to understand not just the past of Islam but its present and future should read Worlds of Islam."--Reza Aslan, author of No god but God From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. Over the spa...

Carrie Gibson

For more than four centuries, enslaved people across the Americas, from the United States and the Caribbean to Brazil, fought any way they could to gain their freedom. For the first time, their dramatic stories are gathered in one sweeping narrative that offers a message of inspiration in our own time. "Among the emancipators are the millions whose stories will never be known. ...

William Rankin

"This is it: the full download from a true genius of cartography. Radical Cartography will make you see maps, and, indeed, your place on the planet, with fresh eyes."—Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire. A stunning, thought-provoking exploration of how maps shape our understanding of the world—featuring over 150 full-color maps in a gorgeous packageMaps are ubiqui...

Ansary, Tamim

"A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world" (San Francisco Chronicle) We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed through the fall of the Ot...

Mark Mazower

From one of our most eminent historians, a penetrating and timely examination of how the meaning of antisemitism has mutated, with unexpected and troubling consequencesWhat are we talking about when we talk about antisemitism? For most of its history it was understood to be a menace from the political Right, the province of ethno-nativists who built on Christendom's long-standi...

Frankopan, Peter

Una historia de la humanidad. Cómo la naturaleza ha moldeado las civilizaciones. Peter Frankopan, autor de grandes best sellers como El corazón del mundo, vuelve con una historia de la humanidad con el cambio climático como hilo conductor. Cuando reflexionamos sobre la historia, rara vez dedicamos suficiente atención a las inundaciones más destructivas, los inviernos más rigur...

Frankopan, Peter

Según la tradición, la Primera Cruzada comenzó por instigación del papa Urbano II y culminó en julio de 1099, cuando miles de caballeros de Europa occidental liberaron Jerusalén de la creciente amenaza del islam. Pero ¿y si el verdadero catalizador de la Primera Cruzada se encontrase más al este de Roma? Frankopan, a diferencia de la mayoría de historiadores de la Primera Cruza...

Frankopan, Peter

Peter Frankopan, que revolucionó nuestra visión de la historia con El corazón del mundo, explora en este nuevo libro los cambios que se están produciendo en el presente y que auguran una futuro distinto, en que todos los caminos apuntan al auge de una Asia dotada de inmensos recursos naturales: se calcula que contiene el 70% de todas las reservas de petróleo del planeta y el 65...

Frankopan, Peter

El corazón que ha movido la historia del mundo, nos dice Peter Frankopan, investigador de la Universidad de Oxford, se encuentra en las tierras de Eurasia que recorrían las rutas de la seda. Allí surgieron los grandes imperios de la antigüedad y las grandes religiones de alcance universal. Allí se han desarrollado las mayores batallas de la historia, desde las conquistas de Ale...

Frankopan, Peter

Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the ...

Frankopan, Peter

El corazón que ha movido la historia del mundo, nos dice Peter Frankopan, investigador de la Universidad de Oxford, se encuentra en las tierras de Eurasia que recorrían las rutas de la seda. Allí surgieron los grandes imperios de la antigüedad y las grandes religiones de alcance universal. Allí se han desarrollado las mayores batallas de la historia, desde las conquistas de Ale...