Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present - Rilegato

Pagden, Anthony

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ISBN 10: 0679640967 ISBN 13: 9780679640967

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 2001

Riassunto

Describes the history and influence of European contact with other regions of the world, discussing the role of migration, exploration, and conquest in shaping world political boundaries, culture, and society. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"In Peoples and Empires Anthony Pagden accomplishes the impossible: two thousand years of empire compressed into two hundred pages, without sacrifice of detail or lucidity. The breadth of vision is phenomenal."
-- Roy Porter

L'autore:

Anthony Pagden was educated in Santiago de Chile, London, Barcelona, and Oxford. He has been a publisher in Paris and a translator in Rome. In the past eighteen years, he has been the reader in intellectual history at Cambridge, a fellow of Kings College, and a visiting professor at Harvard, and he is currently Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, and The New York Times.

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• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679640967
• ISBN 13: 9780679640967
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 206