Patrick Manning is Andrew Mellon Professor of World History, Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, Founding Director of the World History Center and former President of the American Historical Association. He is a multidisciplinary scholar in African and world history and in historical datasets.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction: 1. The human system
Part II. Pleistocene Evolution: 2. Biological and cultural evolution
3. Speech and social evolution
4. Systemic expansion
5. Production and confederation
Part III. Holocene Evolution: 6. Society: network vs hierarchy
7. Collisions and contraction
8. From global networks to capitalism
Part IV. Anthropocene Evolution: 9. Systemic threats
10. Hope for adaptations
Appendix. Frameworks for analysis
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.
