While there have been many books on the history of globalization to date, most have stressed economics and politics. Cultural globalization, of which the emergence of English as the world's first global language is a prime example, has been comparatively neglected. In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. Historians have traditionally left the history of language to linguists and other language specialists, and this brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions.

Product Description: A volume in the Problems in World History series, this book features a variety of secondary-source essays that are carefully edited for both content and length, making this single volume a convenient alternative to course packets or multiple monographs...read more

Product Description: Africans' influence in the Atlantic world before 1960 was not confined to their roles as victims in the one-way forced migration of the Atlantic slave trade and their labor on New World plantations. From the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, black people in the divided communities of the four Atlantic continents struggled to overcome geographical and cultural separations and build a broad coalition against discrimination and exploitation...read more

Product Description: Interest in African history has been growing rapidly in recent years. The encounters between Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans--which first began to intensify during the 15th century--are currently a popular area of study. Up to now, however, only the Europeans viewpoint of these encounters has been explored...read more

Product Description: This text provides a truly global approach to the world history survey. Its fundamental theme, the interaction of human beings and the environment, serves as a point of comparison for different times, places, and societies. Special emphasis is given to technology and how technological development underlies all human activity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Bulliet, Richard W., Crossley, Pamela Kyle, Headrick, Daniel R., Hirsch, Steven W., Northrup, David

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Product Description: The Earth and Its Peoples is a truly global text that employs a fundamental theme to compare different times, places, and societies: the interaction of human beings and the environment. Special emphasis is given to technology (in its broadest sense) and how technological development underlies all human activity...read more

Product Description: Book by Bulliet, Richard W., Crossley, Pamela Kyle, Headrick, Daniel R., Hirsch, Steven W., Johnson, Lyman L., Northrup, David (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Contains learning objectives, chapter outlines (with space for students' notes on particular sections), key-term identifications, short answer and essay questions, map exercises, and "comparison charts" which help students organize the information about different cultures and events discussed in each chapter...read more

Product Description: The earth and its peoples: A global History makes world history understandable as the experience of all peoples inhabiting throughout time a single globe. This truly global text concentrates on a fundamental theme to compare different times, places, and societies: the interaction of human beings and the environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The indentured labour trade was begun to replace freed slaves on sugar plantations in British colonies in the 1830s, but expanded to many other locations around the world. This is the first survey of the global flow of indentured migrants from Africa that developed after the end of the slave trade and continued until shortly after the First World War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The indentured labour trade was begun to replace freed slaves on sugar plantations in British colonies in the 1830s, but expanded to many other locations around the world. This is the first survey of the global flow of indentured migrants from Africa that developed after the end of the slave trade and continued until shortly after the First World War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)