Eric Vanhaute

World History

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

World History: An Introduction provides readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to understand the global historical perspective and how it can be used to shed light on both our past and our present. A concise and original guide to the concepts, methods, debates and contents of world history, it combines a thematic approach with a clear and ambitious focus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780415535793
• ISBN-10: 0415535794
• Artikelnr.: 36138166

Autorenporträt

Eric Vanhaute is Professor of Economic and Social History and World History at Ghent University in Belgium. He has been Visiting Research Fellow at the Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton and at Utrecht University, Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the Institute of Economic and Social History at The University of Vienna and the Institute for Social Economy and Culture at Peking University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Prelude. 1. World history 2. A human world 3. A natural world 4.
An agrarian world 5. A political world 6. A divine world 7. A divided world
8. A global world 9. A polarized world 10. A fragmented world Literature
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