A chronological and thematic presentation of the history of Germany from earliest to modern times, offering a perspective on the country's complex past. Includes maps, illustrations, and feature boxes on important people, places, events, and issues.
A chronological and thematic presentation of the history of Germany from earliest to modern times, offering a perspective on the country's complex past. Includes maps, illustrations, and feature boxes on important people, places, events, and issues.
Provides a narrative overview of Islamic history from the emergence of the Prophet Muhammad in seventh-century Arabia, through the twentieth century, and examines major themes such as the economic foundations of the Islamic world, the ordering of society, and artistic expressions.
Offers fresh interpretations of classical Greek culture. Examines the far-reaching linguistic, literary, artistic, and political legacy of ancient Greece.
Illustrations and text explore the beliefs, traditions, key figures, and celebrations of all the world's religions, chronicle their history, and place the world's faiths into a social, political, and economic context.
Traces the story of key developments and events in medical history from antiquity to modern times, examining the interrelation of disease, health, and medicine, and emphasizing the complex functions that medicine has fulfilled in society.
