Article: Catastrophe: An Investigation Into the Origins of the Modern World.(Review) (book review) (book review)

Article: Between the Middle Ages and Modernity: Individual and Community ...
Renaissance Quarterly;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Individual and Community in the Early Modern World. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield ... collected in this volume show the early modern world as a distinct world, separate from ... that globalization affected the early modern world "on a previously unprecedented scale ...

Article: David T. Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of ...
Canadian Journal of Sociology;  June 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... in which all of them helped shape the modern world while producing pleasure and pain for ... while its focus is the emergence of the modern world, it makes a real effort not to relegate ... for the spread of stimulants in the modern world. The nineteenth century saw a rapid ...

Article: John Foran, David Lane and Andreja Zivkovic (eds.): Revolution in ...
Capital & Class;  September 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Revolution in the Making of the Modern World Routledge, 2008, 306 pp. ISBN: 978 ... of revolutions in the making of the modern world--and whatever has come after it ... times, Revolution in the Making of the Modern World appears just as fragmented as the post ...

Article: Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern ...
American Jewish History;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World. By Jonathan Schorsch. New York ... points of Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World: 1) the emergence of an American way ... to the same conclusion: in the early modern world there was no distinctively Jewish attitude ...

Article: Daniel L. Bell and Hahm Chaibong, editors. Confucianism for the ...
China Review International;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Chaibong, editors. Confucianism for the Modern World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University ... 521-52788-0. Confucianism for the Modern World grew out of the Confucian democracy ... primarily as Confucian prescriptions for the modern world. Readers will find little description ...

Article: The advantage of living on the edge.(A History of the Jews in the ...
The New Leader;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...A History of the Jews in the Modern World By Howard M. Sachar Knopf. 848 pp ... Great War. A History of the Jews in the Modern World replaces the best known of his works ... present. But if one reads Jews in the Modern World straight through, as most readers are ...

Article: Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern ...
Renaissance Quarterly;  December 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Miller and Naomi Yavneh, eds. Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World: Sisters, Brothers and Others. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. xvi + 238 pp. index. illus ...