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1	World Civilizations: The Global Experience more books like this by Professor Peter N Stearns add to wishlist The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text emphasizes the major stages ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	World Civilizations, Volume II: The Global Experience 1450 to Present more books like this by Professor Peter N Stearns, Michael Adas, Marc J Gilbert add to wishlist The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history-since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text emphasizes the major stages ... see all copies from $15.60! new only from $165.61!
3	Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance more books like this by Michael Adas add to wishlist see all copies from $6.75! new only from $17.46! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Ap Student Review Manual to Accompany World Civilizations: the Global Experience, Ap 4th Edition by Peter N.; Adas Stearns, Michael; Schwartz, Stuart B.; Gilbert, Marc Jason add to wishlist see all copies from $55.00! new only from $99.99!
5	World Civilizations, Volume 1: The Global Experience more books like this by Professor Peter N Stearns, Michael Adas, Marc J Gilbert add to wishlist The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text emphasizes the major stages ... see all copies from $26.10!
6	Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the 20th Century more books like this by Michael Adas, Peter Stearns, Stuart Schwartz add to wishlist Turbulent Passage, Fourth Edition, is a truly global text with a strong emphasis on social and cultural history. Focusing on the major international themes and historical processes that shaped the twentieth century, this text looks at the historical antecedents of current issues and challenges students to compare and draw parallels between ... see all copies from $53.98! new only from $59.98! \| SVS
7	World Civilizations, Volume II: The Global Experience more books like this by Professor Peter N Stearns, Michael Adas, Marc J Gilbert add to wishlist With 83 additional outline and four-color maps, World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Fifth Edition, Atlas Edition, helps students with geography, one of the most difficult aspects of World history courses for many. The maps are accompanied by review questions that call on students to identify important geographical areas and think ... see all copies from $29.00! new only from $99.00! \| SVS
8	World Civilizations, Volume I: The Global Experience more books like this by Professor Peter N Stearns, Michael Adas, Marc J Gilbert add to wishlist With 83 additional outline and four-color maps, World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Fifth Edition, Atlas Edition, helps students with geography, one of the most difficult aspects of World history courses for many. The maps are accompanied by review questions that call on students to identify important geographical areas and think ... see all copies from $51.91! new only from $79.00! \| SVS
9	Islamic & European Expan PB more books like this by Michael Adas (Editor) add to wishlist This volume of essays makes available the essential background information and methods for effective teaching and writing on cross-cultural history. The contributors some of the most distinguished writers of global and comparative history chart the advances in understanding in their fields of concentration, revealing both specific findings and ... see all copies from $4.74! new only from $29.00! \| SVS
10	Islamic History as Global History more books like this by Michael Adas (Editor), Richard M. Eaton add to wishlist see all copies from $3.98!
11	Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the Twentieth Century more books like this by Peter Stearns, Stuart Schwartz, Michael Adas add to wishlist With a strong emphasis on social and cultural history, this book focuses on the major international themes and historical processes that shaped the 20th century. Turbulent Passage is a truly global text that looks at the historical antecedents of current issues, and challenges students to make connections and draw parallels between historical and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $83.39! \| first editions
12	High Imperialism & the New History more books like this by Michael Adas add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00!
13	Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the Twentieth Century more books like this by Michael Adas, Professor Peter N Stearns, Stuart B Schwartz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $42.00!
14 view cover	Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission more books like this by Michael Adas add to wishlist Long before the United States became a major force in global affairs, Americans believed in their superiority over others due to their inventiveness, productivity and economic and social well-being. U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to 'civilise' non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. As an ... see all copies from $10.61! new only from $15.96! \| SVS
15 view cover	Agricultural & Pastoral Societies more books like this by Michael Adas (Editor) add to wishlist The second volume in the American Historical Association's series, this title introduces readers to the cross-cultural study of ancient and classical civilizations. The opening essay by Jerry Bentley surveys methodologies and critical interpretations that have been essential to the development of comparative historical analysis. These include ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.95! \| first editions
16	Lives in Between: Assimilation and Marginality in Austria, Brazil, and West Africa, 1780-1945 more books like this by Leo Spitzer, Michael Adas (Editor), Edmund Burke, III (Editor) add to wishlist Employing a cross-cultural approach, this book focuses on members from several generations of families who were products of two or more social worlds - the Afro-Brazilian Reboucas family; the West African Creole May family from Sierra Leone; and the Austrian-Jewish Zweig-Brettauer family. see all copies from $3.65! new only from $36.80! \| first editions
17 view cover	Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements Against the European Colonial Order more books like this by Michael Adas add to wishlist Michael Adas discusses five millennial movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that took place in European colonies in Africa, Asia and Oceania: the revolt led by Prince Dipanagara in the Netherlands East Indies (1825-1830), the Pai Marire or Hau Hau movement of the Maoris of New Zealand (1864-1867), the Birsa disturbance among ... see all copies from $15.94! first editions
18	Machines as the Measure of Men more books like this by Michael Adas add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! first editions
19 view cover	State, Market, and Peasant in Colonial South and Southeast Asia more books like this by Michael Adas add to wishlist The essays collected here focus on peasant responses to the spread of market-oriented economic systems in the colonial era. Some explore the ways in which the colonial state sought to draw cultivators into export production, others the processes by which intermediary groups, particularly immigrant and indigenous moneylenders, both facilitated this ... see all copies from $60.04! new only from $133.70!
20	World History more books like this by Steven Adams (Editor), Kevin Reilly (Editor), Michael Adas (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $8.35! new only from $30.37!
21 view cover	Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion, Adaption, and Adoption more books like this by Michael Adas (Editor) add to wishlist This work on technology transfer between Europe and overseas begins with firearms and maritime conquest; goes on to cover the outward transmission of European technology; describes the persistence of indigenous tools and modes of organization; and shows selective adoption of Western technology. see all copies from $142.47! new only from $179.74!
22 view cover	The World System in the Thirteenth Century: Dead-End or Precursor? more books like this by Michael Adas (Editor), Janet L. Abu-Lughod add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! new only from $84.95!
23 view cover	Gender, Sex, & Empire more books like this by Michael Adas (Editor), Margaret Strobel add to wishlist see all copies from $4.44!
24	Study Guide to Accompany World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Volume 2 by Professor Peter N Stearns, Michael Adas, Stuart B Schwartz add to wishlist see all copies from $9.98! new only from $27.50! \| SVS
25	The Tropical Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade more books like this by Philip D. Curtin, Michael Adas (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.49!

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