Writing World History: Which World?

World history of psychiatry

JOHN G. HOWELLS (editor), World history ofpsychiatry, London, Bailliere Tindall, 1975, 8vo, pp. xxv, 770, illus., £14.50. No matter what the field of endeavour, it is always salutary and usually profitable to find out how others, faced with similar situations, have fared in the evolution of the same subject. Dr. Howells, psychiatrist at the Institute of Family Psychiatry, The Ipswich Hospital, ...

World History and Energy

antiquity The era of ancient (from the Western perspective, mostly the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean) civilizations extant between prehistory and the Middle Ages. determinism A doctrine claiming that human actions are determined by external factors; its prominent varieties include environmental and geographic determinism. early modern world The period immediately following the Middle Ages, v...

Oldest writing in the New World.

A block with a hitherto unknown system of writing has been found in the Olmec heartland of Veracruz, Mexico. Stylistic and other dating of the block places it in the early first millennium before the common era, the oldest writing in the New World, with features that firmly assign this pivotal development to the Olmec civilization of Mesoamerica.

Seeing Writing in a Visual World

Reading ‘Writing the Book of the World’