This volume of essays makes available the essential background information and methods for effective teaching and writing on cross-cultural history. The contributors-some of the most distinguished writers of global and comparative history-chart the advances in understanding in their fields of concentration, revealing both specific findings and broad patterns that have emerged. On the front :…
Professor Kagan reveals the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous world wars of our own century
Surveys the one hundred most decisive battles in world history from the Battle of Megiddo in 1469 B.C. to Desert Storm, 1991
Examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those in recent memory