This book reinterprets the rise of consumerism in terms of interaction between Europe and China 1400-1800.

This illuminating study examines the cultural meaning of artistic reproduction in a refreshingly new context through its consideration of how three artists managed the reproduction of their work.

... Blanchard, 1850), 134–135. 68 Who will be the next nominated no one knows. Letter from Samuel F. Miller to William ... Claudius O. Johnson, in Borah of Idaho (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1936), 452. 73 I'll do no such ...

A novel approach to Chinese history is adopted here, in that the theme of the book is China's relations with the non-Chinese world, not only political and economic, but cultural, social and technological as well.

The book concludes with a study of the Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter. As has become customary, the volume is rounded off by a bibliography and a detailed index.

David Maraniss tells the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967.

It has been an object of almost universal consumption since Neolithic times. This book sets out to place the particular histories of salt in a global perspective and write the history of a human commodity as a theme in world history.

The articles collected in this volume, all written by leading experts in the field, deal with the question how ancient Jewish and Christian authors describe “otherworldly places and situations”.

These studies focus on personal eschatology in the Jewish and early Christian apocalypses.