A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART X Chapter 10: Disease and Death (Cont) The diseases of industrialization and urbanization From the late 18th century there was a wave of rapid population growth, industrialization and urbanization in western Europe and …
THE GREAT EXPERIMENT THE STORY OF ANCIENT EMPIRES, MODERN STATES, AND THE QUEST FOR A GLOBAL NATION STROBE TALBOTT SIMON & SCHUSTER 2008 PART II PART ONE: THE IMPERIAL MILLENIA Chapter 1: Caravans at Rest Chapter 2: A Light Unto the Nations Chapter 3: The Ecumenical State Chapter 4: The Poet and ‘The Prince’ …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART XIII Chapter 46: A Backward Look In 1922, the British writer H.G. Wells published his best-selling A Short History of the World. It ended with the following: As yet we are hardly in the dawn of human greatness. Can we doubt …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART IX Chapter 10: Disease and Death (Cont.) Other Eurasian diseases One of the oldest human diseases is leprosy, which, although it originated with the water buffalo, only affects humans. It has been eliminated …
THE GREAT EXPERIMENT THE STORY OF ANCIENT EMPIRES, MODERN STATES, AND THE QUEST FOR A GLOBAL NATION STROBE TALBOTT SIMON & SCHUSTER 2008 PART I Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end. Isaiah 9:7 In my father’s house are many mansions. John 14:2 Reason and experiment have been indulged, …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART XII Chapter 26: The Age of Revolution Chapter 27: Napoleon and After Chapter 28: A New Way of Working Chapter 29: The Coming of the Machine Chapter 30: Iron Horses and Iron Ships Chapter 31: The Changing Balance …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART VIII Chapter 10: Disease and Death The way in which humans have lived and the environments they have created have had a profound effect on their health, life expectancy and the causes from …
RESOURCE WARS THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF GLOBAL CONFLICT MICHAEL T. KLARE A METROPOLITAN/OWL BOOK 2001 PART III Chapter 2: Oil, Geography, and War: The Competitive Pursuit of Petroleum Plenty Chapter 3: Oil Conflict in the Persian Gulf Chapter 4: Energy Conflict in the Caspian Sea Basin Chapter 5: Oil Wars in the South China …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART XI Chapter 20: The Bridging of the Atlantic Chapter 21: The Remaking of North America Chapter 22: Wealth Real and Imaginary Chapter 23: Europe’s Discovery of Art and Science Chapter 24: Empires of East and South Asia Chapter 25: The …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART VII Chapter 9: The Foundations of Inequality The rise of western Europe after 1500, from being a backward area of the world to one which dominated the rest of the globe, not only …
