Tag search:world history

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

by Daniel Yergin
Hardcover, 1991
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nonfiction, history, 20th century, foreign policy, oil, petroleum industry, WWI, WWII, ∫Book-America Russia and the Cold War, economy, Publisher-Simon & Schuster — 18 more, ∫Review-Business History, popular history, Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller, Royal Dutch-Shell, Henri Deterding, Achnacarry Conference, OPEC, Mohammad Mosaddegh, OWS/Library overlap, hardcover, dustjacket, book, world history, google partial, Read in 2015, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HD9560.6.Y47 1990

A Documentary History of Communism and the World: From Revolution to Collapse

by Robert V. Daniels Editor
Paperback, 1994
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nonfiction, history, 20th century, Soviet Union, foreign policy, diplomacy, documents, AQR 2009, google snippet, book, world history — 2 more, needs tags, move √
Status
Available
Call number
HX313.D64 1994

The Making of the Second Cold War

by Fred Halliday
Paperback, 1983
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needs cover, CSI Library book sale 12/10/08, nonfiction, history, Cold War, United States, Soviet Union, revolution, politics, foreign policy, Europe — 54 more, Asia, ∫Book-Age of Extremes, foreign relations, government, 20th century, world history, 1960s, 1970s, Publisher-Verso, google snippet, Afghanistan, Afghan-Soviet War, Angola, anti-communism, book, AQR 2008, Africans, arms race, Leonid Brezhnev, Cambodia, capitalism, Jimmy Carter, China, communists, CPSU, crisis, Cuba, détente, Eastern Europe, Ethiopia, guerrillas, ICBMs, Indo-China, intervention, Iran, Japan, Henry Kissinger, Michael Klare, Middle East, military, Nicaragua, nuclear weapons, OPEC, peace movement, Ronald Reagan, Reagan Doctrine, recession, SALT II, South Yemen, third world, Vietnam, war, google terms added, move √
Status
Available
Call number
D849.H33 1983

Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

by Eric R. Wolf
Paperback, 1982
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nonfiction, Mexico, Russia, China, Vietnam, Algeria, Cuba, revolution, farmers, preindustrial, politics — 17 more, power, development, ∫LT-amberalicia, history, peasants, agriculture, revolt, the state, economy, Algerian Revolution, Publisher-Harper, world history, book, google partial, rural, move √, IMT China Reading
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Available
Call number
D445.W8 1969

Rats, Lice, & History: Being a Study in Biography, Which, after Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deals with the Life History of Typhus Fever: Also Known at Various Stages of Its Adventurous Career, as Morbus pulicaris (Cardanus, 1545), Tabardiglio y Puntos (De Toro, 1574); Pintas; Febris purpurea epidemica (Coyttarus, 1578); Febris quam lenticulas vel puncticulas vocant (Fracastorius, 1546); Morbus hungaricus; La Pourpre; Pipercorn; Febris petechialis vera; Fe

by Hans Zinsser
Paperback, 1967
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nonfiction, Larry, short, illness, health, history, epidemics, disease, typhus, rats, lice — 11 more, Publisher-Bantam, priority, Black Death, google partial, ancient India, ancient Rome, book, world history, needs tags, ≥40 global ratings, move √
Status
Available
Call number
RC199.Z5 1935

The Modern World System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s

by Immanuel Wallerstein
Hardcover, 1989
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Read in 2009, cycle purchase 05/01/07, nonfiction, capitalism, Europe, history, economic history, economics, world history, World Systems Theory, 18th century — 31 more, Great Britain, France, French Revolution, American Revolution, Latin America, Haiti, Ottoman Empire, West Africa, Russia, India, China, colonialism, trade, economy, early modern, google partial, Pontiac's Rebellion, 18th Brumaire, Act of Union 1801, Act of Union 1707, agricultural revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville, Anatolia, ancien régime, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2007, S-Studies in Social Discontinuity, mcr?, move √
Series
The Modern World-System (III), Studies in Social Discontinuity (1989)
Status
Available
Call number
HC45.W35 v.3 1989

The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

by Lewis Mumford
Hardcover, 1961
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407, StbR, move √, nonfiction, yard sales 9/8/07, cities, city planning, urban, Publisher-Harcourt, google partial, Adam Smith — 22 more, Aegean, Leon Battista Alberti, Alexander the Great, Alexandria, almshouses, Amana community, Amarna, Amsterdam, ancient civilization, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Rome, Anglo-Saxons, hardcover, book, AQR 2007, urban planning, urban history, UP Library, world history, ≥40 global ratings
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Available
Call number
HT111.M8 1961

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

by David Brion Davis
Hardcover, 2006
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Read in 2010, nonfiction, abolitionism, abolition, politics, social movements, Americas, United States, history, anti-slavery, slavery — 22 more, Publisher-Oxford University Press, Caribbean, Brazil, Cuba, Great Britain, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, American Civil War, google partial, Abraham Lincoln, African colonization movement, American Colonization Society, American South, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2010, Atlantic World, world history, William Wilberforce, move √, Africa
Status
Available
Call number
E441.D2495 2006

A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

by Gerhard L. Weinberg
Hardcover, 1994
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history, Europe, World War Two, WWII, war, 20th century, 1940s, Publisher-Cambridge University Press, cycle purchase 04/27/09, AQR 2009, nonfiction — 12 more, google partial, Adolf Hitler, North African campaign, Air Force, Albania, hardcover, dustjacket, book, ≥40 global ratings, world history, mcr?, move √
Status
Available
Call number
D743.W424 1994

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism; Revised Edition

by Benedict R. O'G. Anderson
Paperback, 1991
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nonfiction, nationalism, Publisher-Verso, cultural history, cultural anthropology, comparative history, book, world history, google partial, Read in 2015, needs tags — 3 more, print culture, ≥40 global ratings, move √
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Available
Call number
JC311.A656 1991

Salt-Water Slaves: African Enslavement, Forced Migration, and Settlement in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660-1700

by Stephanie Ellen Smallwood
Hardcover, 2005
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mcr147, Read in 2008, dissertation, nonfiction, slavery, slave trade, Africa, slaves, Atlantic history, Caribbean, Gold Coast — 22 more, West Africa, sugar, Jamaica, 17th century, Great Britain, shipping, trade, plantations, gender, migration, ind-read-list, African diaspora, google partial, Aja, Akwamu, ancestors, hardcover, book, Atlantic World, world history, Publisher-University Microfilms Inc., move √
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Available
Call number
HT1322.S63 1999

Plagues and Peoples

by William H. McNeill
Hardcover, 1976
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mcr135, Read in 2007, nonfiction, cycle purchase 05/01/07, ind-read-list, illness, health, history, epidemics, disease, Black Death — 17 more, cholera, environmental history, Publisher-Anchor, google partial, Amerindians, ancient China, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient India, ancient Mesopotamia, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2007, world history, ≥40 global ratings, move √
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Available
Call number
RA649.M3 1976

The Sources of Social Power, Volume I: A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760

by Michael Mann
Paperback, 2005
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mcr106, cycle purchase 05/01/07, Read in 2007, nonfiction, ind-read-list, power, sociology, social history, history, Publisher-Cambridge University Press, ancient history — 22 more, Rome, Roman Empire, Mesopotamia, google partial, absolutism, agricultural revolution, Akkad, Alexander the Great, Anatolia, ancient China, ancient civilization, ancient Crete, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Persia, ancient Rome, Andes, book, AQR 2007, world history, move √
Series
The Sources of Social Power (Volume 1)
Status
Available
Call number
HN8.M28 v.1 1986

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

by Kenneth Pomeranz
Paperback, 2000
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Read in 2011, nonfiction, China, theory, economic development, capitalism, history, economic history, Europe, economics, cycle purchase 12/12/08 — 13 more, Publisher-Princeton University Press, economy, East Asia, early modern, comparative history, google partial, agricultural revolution, book, AQR 2008, S-The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, world history, mcr?, move √
Series
The Princeton Economic History of the Western World (2000)
Status
Available
Call number
HC240.P5965 2000

The Modern World System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750

by Immanuel Wallerstein
Hardcover, 1981
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mcr146, Read in 2008, cycle purchase 05/01/07, nonfiction, Europe, economic history, mercantilism, trade, commerce, government, history — 25 more, economics, 17th century, 18th century, England, France, Netherlands, politics, Poland, Spain, Americas, ind-read-list, economy, early modern, google partial, absolutism, agricultural revolution, Amsterdam, hardcover, book, AQR 2007, S-Studies in Social Discontinuity, world history, world economy, move √, World Systems Theory
Series
The Modern World-System (II), Studies in Social Discontinuity (1980)
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Available
Call number
HC45.W35 v.2 1980

The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century

by Immanuel Wallerstein
Hardcover, 1982
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mcr141, Read in 2007, cycle purchase 05/01/07, nonfiction, ind-read-list, agriculture, capitalism, Europe, economic history, mercantilism, trade — 21 more, commerce, government, history, economics, economy, early modern, google partial, absolutism, agricultural revolution, agronomy, al-Andalus, Amsterdam, Andre Gunder Frank, hardcover, book, AQR 2007, S-Studies in Social Discontinuity, world history, world economy, move √, World Systems Theory
Series
The Modern World-System (I), Studies in Social Discontinuity
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Available
Call number
HC45.W35 v.1 1974

The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800

by Robin Blackburn
Paperback, 1998
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mcr092, nonfiction, Read in 2007, slaves, Europe, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, Spain, Portugal, France — 32 more, England, Barbados, Jamaica, Brazil, West Indies, sugar, tobacco, capitalism, capital, trade, piracy, mercantilism, gold, Africa, favorite nonfiction, ind-read-list, slavery, Americas, history, Great Britain, Publisher-Verso, economy, google partial, agricultural revolution, Alonso de Sandoval, Angola, book, AQR 2006, Atlantic World, world history, amazon source recheck, move √
Series
Verso World History Series
Status
Available
Call number
HT1048.B56 1998

American Power and the New Mandarins

by Noam Chomsky
Paperback, 1969
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mcr110, Read in 2007, nonfiction, Larry, essays, polemic, power, propaganda, media, liberals, Spain — 43 more, foreign policy, Spanish Civil War, Spanish American War, Philippines, imperialism, rationalization, universities, education, peace, WWII, Japan, Pacific war, Hiroshima, Cold War, communism, ind-read-list, intellectuals, public opinion, foreign relations, government, United States, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Vietnam War, war, 20th century, 1960s, 1970s, world history, history, politics, Publisher-Vintage, anti-war, google partial, A. J. Muste, Allen Dulles, anarchists, anti-fascism, book, OWS/Library overlap, cover-black, move √, Spanish Revolution
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Available
Call number
E744.C514 1967

The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991

by Eric Hobsbawm
Paperback, 1996
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mcr080, Europe, nonfiction, Read in 2006, ind-read-list, 20th century, world history, history, Publisher-Vintage, WWI, WWII — 78 more, Cold War, google snippet, really existing socialism, Adolf Hitler, Albania, Albert Einstein, Algeria, Algerian Revolution, Algerian War, anarchists, anti-colonialism, anti-communism, anti-imperialism, book, cover-white, Africa, United States, anti-fascism, art, avant-garde, Bolsheviks, Great Britain, capitalism, China, colonialism, Comintern, communism, Communist Party, crisis, Czechoslovakia, democracy, fascism, France, Germany, guerrillas, ideology, India, industry, intellectuals, Italy, Japan, labor, Latin America, V.I. Lenin, liberalism, Marxism, military, modernity, Moscow, social movements, Nazism, nuclear weapons, October Revolution, peasants, Poland, population, post-war, production, radicalism, reform, revolution, Russia, Great Depression, socialism, Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, superpowers, Third World, war, women, workers, world economy, world revolution, google terms added, ≥40 global ratings, Western Civilization, amazon source recheck, move √
Series
Hobsbawm's Histories (4)
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Available
Call number
D421.H583 1994

"The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two

by Studs Terkel
Paperback, 1985
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history, Europe, reference, documents, biography, nonfiction, Larry, United States, oral history, Japan, soldiers — 13 more, World War Two, WWII, war, 20th century, 1940s, priority, Publisher-Ballantine, google partial, book, OWS/Library overlap, world history, ≥40 global ratings, move √
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Available
Call number
D811.A2G58 1984

The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

by E. J. Hobsbawm
Paperback, 1962
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nonfiction, Larry, Read in 2011, Europe, history, industry, industrial revolution, economics, production, Publisher-New American Library, economy — 73 more, google snippet, French Revolution, absolutism, age of revolution, agricultural revolution, book, cover-white, 1848 Revolution, agriculture, aristocracy, Austria, Balkans, Belgium, Blanquists, bourgeoisie, Great Britain, capital, capitalism, Catholic Church, Chartism, church, liberalism, colonialism, cotton, empire, enlightenment, factories, France, Germany, ideology, India, Italy, Jacobins, kings, labor, poverty, land, Lunar Society, Mansell Collection, Karl Marx, middle class, military, modernity, Napoleonic wars, nationalism, Paris, peasants, Poland, political economy, population, proletariat, Protestantism, radicalism, railroads, reform, religion, revolution, risings, romanticism, Russia, Saint-Simonians, socialists, Spain, trade, tradition, urban, workers, google terms added, ≥40 global ratings, world history, Western Civilization, mcr?, move √
Series
Hobsbawm's Histories (1)
Status
Available
Call number
D299.H6 1962

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

by Peter Linebaugh
Hardcover, 2000
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nonfiction, ind-read-list, capitalism, colonies, colonialism, British Empire, Great Britain, Puritan revolution, 17th century, religion, Puritans — 24 more, English Revolution, revolution, radicalism, history, slave trade, slavery, trade, United States, Publisher-Beacon Press, Army Debates, executions, google partial, age of revolution, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2005, Atlantic World, world history, ≥40 global ratings, Robert Wedderburn, needs tags, William Blake, move √
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Available
Call number
HC254.5.L715 2000

The Great Depression: An Inquiry into the Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, as Seen by Contemporaries and in the Light of History

by John A. Garraty
Hardcover, 1986
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mcr058, nonfiction, Read in 2006, ind-read-list, economic depression, Great Depression, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, economic history, history — 13 more, economics, economy, Publisher-Harcourt, labor, google snippet, Adolf Hitler, Agricultural Adjustment Act, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2006, world history, move √
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Available
Call number
HB3717 1929.G36 1986

Year 501: The Conquest Continues

by Noam Chomsky
Paperback, 2000
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nonfiction, ind-read-list, imperialism, United States, world history, history, politics, South End Press, cycle purchase 04/27/09, AQR 2009, google partial — 9 more, Adam Smith, Alliance for Progress, Andrew Carnegie, Angola, book, cover-white, needs tags, Publisher-South End Press, move √
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Available
Call number
E840.C494 1993

The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise To the Close of the Seventeenth Century

by Nicholas Canny Editor
Hardcover, 1998
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16th century, 17th century, England, Ireland, United States, India, colonization, Virginia, New England, West Africa, trade — 34 more, war, North Carolina, South Carolina, Glorious Revolution, Europe, nonfiction, Read in 2006, ind-read-list, colonies, colonialism, British Empire, imperialism, history, Great Britain, Publisher-Oxford University Press, google partial, Abenaki Indians, Act of Union 1707, Albany NY, Albemarle Sound, Algonquians, American Indian treaties, Amerindians, Edmund Andros, Anglican Church, Church of England, OWS recs, hardcover, dustjacket, book, AQR 2006, S-Oxford History of the British Empire, world history, move √
Series
The Oxford History of the British Empire (1)
Status
Available
Call number
DA16.O95 v.1 1998

The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

by E. J. Hobsbawm
Paperback, 1989
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mcr064, world history, empire, imperialism, fin-de-siècle, capitalism, nationalism, 19th century, 20th century, British Empire, England — 74 more, United States, Germany, France, industrialization, economics, democracy, women, science, art, Africa, nonfiction, Read in 2006, favorite nonfiction, ind-read-list, Europe, history, Publisher-Pantheon Books, economy, British Raj, google snippet, agrarian question, anarchists, anti-clericalism, book, cover-white, art nouveau, Austria, Austria-Hungary, avant-garde, Belgium, bourgeoisie, Great Britain, cities, colonialism, crisis, emancipation, Habsburg Empire, ideology, India, industry, Ireland, Italy, labor, liberalism, London, Marxism, Max Weber, middle class, militants, military, modernity, Ottoman Empire, peasants, population, production, proletariat, religion, revolution, Rosa Luxemburg, Russia, socialists, socialist parties, trade, traditionalism, unions, Vienna, voting, workers, working class, world economy, google terms added, ≥40 global ratings, Western Civilization, move √
Series
Hobsbawm's Histories (3)
Status
Available
Call number
D359.7.H63 1987
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