The Oxford Illustrated History of the World

Herausgeber: Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Illustrated History of the World is the story of humanity itself, from earliest times to the present day, and the changes--good and bad--which have shaped our world.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Illustrated History
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 189mm x 246mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 948g
• ISBN-13: 9780198752912
• ISBN-10: 0198752911
• Artikelnr.: 61145334

Autorenporträt

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His work, which has covered many fields and disciplines and has appeared in twenty-seven languages, has won him numerous awards, including the John Carter Brown Medal, a World History Association Book Prize (for Pathfinders, 2007), Spain¿s national prizes for geography and foodwriting, and, most recently, the Gran Cruz de la Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio, Spain¿s highest award for services to education and the arts.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Children of the Ice
* 1: Clive Gamble: Humanity From the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of
an Adaptive Species
* 2: Felipe Fernández-Armesto: The Mind in the Ice: Art and Thought
before Agriculture
* Part II: Of Mud and Metal
* 3: Martin Jones: Into a Warming World
* 4: Felipe Fernández-Armesto: The Farmers' Empires: Climax and Crises
in Agrarian States and Cities
* Part III: The Oscillations of Empires
* 5: John Brooke: Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to the Black Death
* 6: David Northrup: Intellectual Traditions: Philosophy, Science,
Religion, and the Arts, 500 BCE - 1350 CE
* 7: Ian Morris: Growth: Social and Political Organizations, 1000 BC-AD
1350
* Part IV: The Climatic Reversal
* 8: David Northrup: A Converging World: Economic and Ecological
Encounters, 1350-1815
* 9: Manuel Lucena-Giraldo: Renaissances, Reformations, and Mental
Revolutions: Intellect and Arts in the Early Modern World
* 10: Anjana Singh: Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs,
Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World
* Part V: The Great Acceleration
* 11: David Christian: The Anthropocene Epoch: The Background to Two
Transformative Centuries
* 12: Paolo Luca Bernardini: The Modern World and Its Demons: Ideology
and After in Arts, Letters and Thought, 1815-2008
* 13: Jeremy Black: Politics and Society in the Kaleidoscope of Change:
Relationships, Institutions, and Conflicts from the Beginnings of
Western Hegemony to the American Supremacy
* Epilogue
* Further Reading
* Index