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Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1977, this provocative study is based on the idea that current Third World problems of modernization may be able to shed light on the period of European history from roughly 1770 to 1870. Includes extensive charts and maps.

Our whole society may be obsessed with "family values, " but as John Gillis points out in this entertaining and eye-opening book, most of our images of "home sweet home" are of very recent vintage. "A World of Their Own Making" examines our idealized notion of "The Family, " a mind-set in which myth and symbol still hold sway.

Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those who came before them, the natural environment, a...

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