The Cambridge World History

Herausgeber: Bentley, Jerry H.; Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comprehensive new global history of the intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges that took place on an unprecedented scale from 1400 to 1800. Leading scholars examine the environment, disease, technology, cities, migrations, warfare, law, religions, and slavery, along with insightful regional analyses of empires, crossroads areas, and sites of conflict.

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Produktdetails

• The Cambridge World History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 844g
• ISBN-13: 9781108407731
• ISBN-10: 1108407730
• Artikelnr.: 48582646

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Part I. Global Matrices: 2. 'Exhausting the earth': environment and history in the early modern world Robert Marks
3. Globalization of disease, 1300-1900 James Webb
4. Technological transitions Francesca Bray
5. Patterns of urbanization, 1400-1800 Peter Burke
6. Gender and sexuality Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Part II. Macro-Regions: 7. Eurasia after the Mongols Thomas T. Allsen
8. Continuity and change in the Indian Ocean basin Jos Gommans
9. The Americas in the age of indigenous empires Matthew Restall
10. Africa in world history, 1400-1800 Ray A. Kea
Part III. Large-Scale Political Formations: 11. The Iberian empires, 1400-1800 Jorge Flores
12. Imperial competition in Eurasia: Russia and China Laura Hostetler
13. The Islamic empires of the early modern world Giancarlo Casale
Part IV. Crossroads Regions: 14. Crossroads region: Central Asia Morris Rossabi
15. Crossroads region: Southeast Asia Michael Laffan
16. The Caribbean region: crucible for modern world history Alan Karras
17. Crossroads region: the Mediterranean Filippo de Vivo
Part V. Overview: 18. Political trajectories compared Jack Goldstone.