Cambridge World History: Volume 1, Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Christian, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part I leading scholars outline the approaches, methods, and themes that have shaped and defined world history scholarship across the world and right up to the present day. Chapters examine the historiographical development of the field globally, periodisation, divergence and convergence, belief and knowledge, technology and innovation, family, gender, anthropology, migration, and fire. Part II surveys the vast Palaeolithic era, which laid the foundations for human history, concentrating on the most recent phases of hominin evolution, the rise of Homo sapiens and the very earliest human societies through to the end of the last ice age. Anthropologists, archaeologists, historical linguists and historians examine climate and tools, language, and culture, as well as offering regional perspectives from across the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316287293
• Artikelnr.: 52993272

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and overview David Christian; Part I. Historiography,
Method, and Themes: 2. Writing world history Marnie Hughes-Warrington; 3.
The evolution of world histories Dominic Sachsenmaier; 4. Evolution,
rupture and periodisation Michael Lang; 5. From divergence to convergence:
centrifugal and centripetal forces in history David Northrup; 6. Belief,
knowledge and language Luke Clossey; 7. Historiography of technology and
innovation Daniel Headrick; 8. Fire and fuel in human history Johan
Goudsblom; 9. Family history and world history: from domestication to
biopolitics Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner; 10. Gendered world history
Merry Wiesner-Hanks; 11. What does anthropology contribute to world
history? Jack Goody; 12. Migration in human history Pat Manning; Part II.
The Palaeolithic and the Beginnings of Human History: 13. Before the
farmers: culture and climate from the emergence of homo sapiens to about
ten thousand years ago Felipe Fernandez-Arnesto; 14. Early humans: tools,
language and culture Christopher Ehret; 15. Africa from 48,000 to 9600 BCE
Christopher Ehret; 16. Migration and innovation in Palaeolithic Europe John
Hoffecker; 17. Asian Palaeolithic dispersals Robin Dennell; 18. The
Pleistocene colonisation and occupation of Australasia Peter Hiscock; 19.
The Pleistocene colonisation and occupation of the Americas Nicole M.
Waguespack.