Concise Encyclopedia of World History

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The Concise Encyclopedia of World History offers the global reading public, students, and professors a handy, complete, and accurate guide to all political formations since the beginning of history. It reaches into pre-history through the including of the important families of languages spoken today. It also tracks ethnic groups, especially nomadic, which have been influential in the creation of civilizations and states. The entries on existing independent states include up-to-date political facts and statistics. They mention each country’s world heritage sites. To complement the individual entries in this encyclopedia, there is an extensive, commentated world-historical chronology. A special feature in this work is the inclusion of individual political chronologies for ancient civilizations and important countries and regions the world over. To round out this easy-to-consult and thoroughly researched work, there is a cross-referenced index especially designed for provinces, cities, and other entities which have no entries of their own but appear in the entries, sometimes prominently, as, for example, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates of Amritsar in India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carlos Ramirez-Faria

Dr. Carlos Ramirez-Faria did his higher education in New York, Paris, and London. Born in Venezuela, he is the author of the Origins of Economic Inequality between nations, a book with a legitimate claim on having said the last word on the antagonism between ‘development economics’ and ‘dependency theory’ and The Historical Dictionary of World Political Geography, a reference work in a niche of its own with some innovative features. Dr. Carlos Ramirez-Faria has had professorships in Venezuela and has been a guest lecturer at the London School of Economics and at Hunter College, New York. Besides his interests in history and, politics, he has also done extensive studies in philosophy.

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Title
Concise Encyclopedia of World History
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8126907754
Length
viii+954p., Maps.
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