Describes the origins, development, and impact of inventions in communications, transportation, energy, engineering, medicine, warfare, measurement, agriculture
There was a time when every voyage contained an element of the unknown. Today, however, the world spreads out before us carefully mapped and plotted. One must c
There was a time when people assumed that the world was flat. Once an alternate theory was proposed, however, that conceit was challenged and, eventually, dispr
Discusses the scientific and philosophical theories and ideas that have been turning points in modern civilization, highlighting the key figures and cultural pe
Discusses the most influential political and social movements and their roles in the history of modern world politics, including liberalism, conservatism, facis