World HistoryThe Essential World History presents a breif, balanced, highly-readable overview of world history that explores common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and that identify key global patterns over time. Thorough coverage of political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history has been integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help you gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures in society. |
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... believed in the equality of all people and wanted to replace competition with cooperation in industry . To later socialists , especially the followers of Karl Marx , such ideas were merely impractical dreams , and with contempt they ...
... believed in the equality of all people and wanted to replace competition with cooperation in industry . To later socialists , especially the followers of Karl Marx , such ideas were merely impractical dreams , and with contempt they ...
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... believed , then , in a constitutional monarchy or constitutional state with limits on the powers of government to prevent despotism , and in written constitutions that would also help to guarantee these rights . Many liberals also ...
... believed , then , in a constitutional monarchy or constitutional state with limits on the powers of government to prevent despotism , and in written constitutions that would also help to guarantee these rights . Many liberals also ...
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... believed that an objective knowledge of the world was impossible . The external world was not real but only a collection of symbols that reflected the true reality of the individual human mind . Art , they believed , should function for ...
... believed that an objective knowledge of the world was impossible . The external world was not real but only a collection of symbols that reflected the true reality of the individual human mind . Art , they believed , should function for ...
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