Brief Histories of Almost Anything
50 Savvy Slices of our Global Past
November 2008
Trade Paperback · 224 Pages
$16.95 U.S. · $16.95 CAN
ISBN 9781906523008
New Internationalist
Trade Paperback · 224 Pages
$16.95 U.S. · $16.95 CAN
ISBN 9781906523008
New Internationalist
Recommended for These Courses
- International Relations: Political Theory and History
- Political Science: General
- Political Science: Political Theory and History
Description
Here are fifty concise, entertaining histories on a broad, eclectic range of ideas (borders, feminism), global issues (migration, world trade), commodities (bananas, jeans), regions (Africa, Ireland), and institutions (corporations, the World Bank).
Lucid and irreverent, Brief Histories of Almost Anything challenges common perceptions associated with the subjects by going behind the facts. Each history has been selected from the New Internationalist magazine, a leading authority on alternative history and “Best International Coverage” winner in the Utne Reader Independent Press Awards.
Edited by Chris Brazier, author of the best-selling No-Nonsense Guide to World History.
Lucid and irreverent, Brief Histories of Almost Anything challenges common perceptions associated with the subjects by going behind the facts. Each history has been selected from the New Internationalist magazine, a leading authority on alternative history and “Best International Coverage” winner in the Utne Reader Independent Press Awards.
Edited by Chris Brazier, author of the best-selling No-Nonsense Guide to World History.
About the Author
Chris Brazier has been a co-editor of New Internationalist magazine since 1984. His previous publications include Vietnam: The Price of Peace and (as editor) Raging Against the Machine. Since 2001 he has also been principal writer for UNICEF's The State of the World's Children report.