Introduces the history of money and discusses its development from items such as shells and furs to legal tender; features intriguing illustrations and a glossary; as well as lists resources to explore the subject further.
From the Great Wall of China to your local museum, Explore History takes you on a journey around the world, and into the past. With stunning photography, fascinating stories and insider tips for your next trip, each issue of Explore History contains all the inspiration you need to get out there and discover history’s greatest places.
From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond "revisionist" historians of the 1970s, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism, to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social relations, religion, diplomacy, the Enlightenment, and colonial policy. In this book, seven established authorities explore some of these critical intersections, and together they make clear the role that unresolved tensions in these realms played in the essentially political narrative told by post-Marxian revisionist historiography.
This volume brings together a selection of the papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Modality in English, held in Madrid on 911 September 2010. The book is divided into two parts, with the first encompassing contributions focusing on the notions of modality, evidentiality and temporality, and the second those that explore modality and its connection with stance and evaluation in specific genres and discourse domains.
Every issue of Explore History will take readers on a tour of the world’s most famous heritage sites, from The Great Pyramids to Windsor Castle, and reveal the incredible stories behind the brick and mortar alongside stunning photography and trusted travel guides.
