world history

"'The Rights of Man.' What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights--not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was passed, while in France the nation tumbled toward revolution. In the Caribbean preachers brought word of equality, while in the South Pacific sailors mutinied. New knowledge was exploding, with mathematicians and scientists rewriting the history of the planet and the digits of pi. Lauded anthology editors Marc Aronson and Susan Campbell Bartoletti, along with ten award-winning nonfiction authors, explore a tumultuous year when rights and freedoms collided with enslavement and domination, and the future of humanity seemed to be at stake. Some events and actors are familiar: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Marie Antoinette and the Marquis de Lafayette. Others may be less so: the eloquent former slave Olaudah Equiano, the Seneca memoirist Mary Jemison, the fishwives of Paris, the mathematician Jurij Vega, and the painter ?lisabeth Vig?e Le Brun. But every chapter brings fresh perspectives on the debates of the time, inviting readers to experience the passions of the past and ask new questions of today"--From the publisher's web site.

The author argues that American society is leaning toward despotism and totalitarianism and looks back at the twentieth century for examples of how totalitarianism has taken over before.

Looks at the history of civilization through fifty disasters, including the Pompeii volcano erruption, the drought of the 1930s, and the Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania nuclear accident.

Provides answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about people and events in the history of the United States and the world; covering government and politics, law and famous trials, economics and business, political and social movements, and natural and man-made disasters.

Contains 388 chronologically arranged entries that provide accounts of some of modern history's greatest scandals in the areas of politics and government, business and finance, education, religion, science, sports, entertainment, literature, and the arts; covering events from 1904 to 2008, with geographical, category, personages, and subject indexes.

Provides answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about people and events in the history of the United States and the world; covering medicine and disease, philosophy, science and invention, culture and recreation, and holidays and observances.

An illustrated overview of world history presented in maps and timelines detailing important cultures, events, and developments.

A visual history of the world that features explanations of events, illustrations, photographs, and computer-generated images.

An introduction to world history from the first civilizations to the early twentieth century.

Contains approximately five hundred black-and-white line illustrations, maps, tables, charts, and time lines on events and developments in world history between the third and mid-eighteenth centuries.