World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees ...

From Ancient Egypt to modern times, tattoos have been part and parcel of the pertinent cultural practices of different ...

Part I is a comprehensive account of pre-Islamic late antiquity; the beginnings of Islam; the early Islamic empires; and Islamic religious, artistic, legal and intellectual cultures ... History of ...

Contra Marx, the laws of economics are immutable and are the same no matter what historical epoch exists. Economies cannot ...

In pursuit of filling the gaps in modern society, Samira Lundqvist, a trailblazing visionary passionate about merging ...

Can the modern world learn how to address the issues of migration from these nomadic cultures? MULTIPLE FACES OF MIGRATION Our modern post-industrial societies ... of nation-states, to the tune ...

Rockefeller 3rd, Asia Society is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution with major cultural centers ... about the organization's history here. The symbol of the Asia Society is the leogryph. "At a time ...

In the late 1980s, the communist world collapsed, and the Cold War international system became history. It is in this context that Samuel Huntington wrote, The Clash of Civilisations.

But why, despite such well known figures, is their history ... piece of culture that can be relived every day and passed down to the next generation of Hakka pioneers. Asia Society’s purpose is to ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a richly decorated throne room and a “Hall of the Braided Serpents” from the Moche culture, ...

Our students come from diverse backgrounds, including anthropology, history, cultural and media ... of Sociology conducts world-class research and teaching on some of the most challenging social and ...