For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to reconsider—from the changed nature of human agency to a new acceptance of universals.

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Fully updated throughout to include recent themes and events such as the 2020 election and 2021 Presidential inauguration, providing students with a current overview of US politics and society. Chapters on geography, women and minorities, and the media have been comprehensively revised to incorporate more information on such themes as environmental legislation, the LGBTQ+ community, social media and people, key themes in the study of American culture and society today, ensuring students get a...

A History of World Societies, Twelfth Edition, provides a regional approach to global history that is easily understood and presented in straightforward sections. With a focus on social history, students see how the stories of individuals affected the arc of global history. This book is also enhanced by LearningCurve, our easy-to-use adaptive learning system that will ensure that you come to class prepared.

There is still a gap in how the period after 1989-1991 is conceptualised. The proposed book's challenging designation of the 'transatlantic era' as the motif for 1989-2020 enables the reader to think differently about the period we have been living through. The separation of the 1989-2020 period into three clearly marked-out decades works well for structuring the book, providing a clear overview and supportive base for the book's principal argument.

Accessible for BA and MA students. Makes fu...

Well-written and engaging, this book deals with complex and wide-ranging material in a clear and accessible way and is up-to-date with current historiographical trends, such as digital history which students need to know about. It also includes a companion website which augments the features, such as marginal glosses, in the text, ensuring it is user-friendly for students Offers a clear and up-to-date text on historiography, something students on all history degrees are required to engage wit...

The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary scholarship in the field of big history. The volume is divided into five parts, each representing current and evolving areas of interest to the community, including big history’s relationship to science, social science, the humanities, and the future, as well as teaching big history and ‘little big histories’. Considering an ever-expanding range of theoretical, ped...

Stedenbouwkundige Riek Bakker vertelt hoe en waarom ons land geworden is zoals het nu is, en toont aan dat de inrichting van het huidige en het toekomstige Nederland een continu proces is van gebiedsontwikkeling. Zijzelf heeft met daadkracht, doorzettingsvermogen en creativiteit haar stempel gedrukt op de ruimtelijke inrichting van Nederland, met als toonaangevendste projecten de Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam en Vinex‑wijk Leidsche Rijn bij Utrecht.

Door een combinatie van vakinhoudelijke kenni...

‘God has given us the ability to repair a congenital heart defect: why not,

then, when body and mind do not match?’

‘Whenever a TV program had paid attention to transsexualism, my

phone would not stop ringing the next day.’

In the early seventies, when hardly a doctor or hospital in the world was willing to offer medical care to transgender people, a few pioneers in the VU hospital in Amsterdam started a gender clinic. It evolved from a weekly consultation hour for people being treate...

This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the south Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research offers a captivating new analysis of political culture, power relations, and dynastic developments.

In great detail, this monograph provides both new facts and fresh insights that contest exi...

In de technische sector zijn vooral familiebedrijven actief, waarin naast winst maken ook andere waarden een grote rol spelen, zoals maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen en rentmeesterschap. Tien familiebedrijven in de technische sector staan in dit boek in de spotlights. Wat is hun geschiedenis? Wat hebben ze bijgedragen aan de technische kennis en ontwikkeling van Nederland? Hoe is hun cultuur? Wat is hun toekomst?

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