| Description |
1 online resource (2184 entries) : 119 images, digital files. |
| Contents |
The Americas -- Africa -- Europe -- South and Central Asia and the Middle East -- East and Southeast Asia and Oceana. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures is a fascinating and informative guide to the myriad discrete ethnic and cultural groupings that have inhabited our planet over the past 6000 years. It presents - in a simple and easy-to-follow A to Z structure within five regionally based sections (The Americas, Africa, Europe, South and Central Asia and the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia and Oceania) - clear, concise and readable histories of a significant number of peoples, nations and cultures: from the Assyrians of the ancient Middle East to the modern-day Armenians, from the Belgae of ancient Europe to the modern-day Basques. |
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Modern political geography, reflected in the 200-odd states into which the contemporary world is divided, offers at best a simplification of the world's ethnic and cultural complexities. The nation-states that sit at today's United Nations represent but a fraction of the huge number of distinct and identifiable peoples, nations and cultures that have come into being, settled, migrated, flourished, declined, assimilated, and - in many cases - disappeared since the distant beginnings of recorded history. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Ethnologie -- Dictionnaires anglais.
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Ethnology.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
MacKenzie, John M.
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Credo Reference (Firm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0304365505 9780304365500 672 p. : maps |
| ISBN |
9780304365500 (print) |
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0304365505 (print) |
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9781849721882 (online) |
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