The Oxford Illustrated History of the World

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Felipe FernÃ¡ndez-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), SpainÂ¿s national prizes for geography and foodwriting, and, most recently, the Gran Cruz de la Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio, SpainÂ¿s highest award for services to education and the arts.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: Children of the Ice

1: Clive Gamble: Humanity From the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of an Adaptive Species

2: Felipe FernÃ¡ndez-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 FernÃ¡ndez-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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198752912
ISBN-10:	0198752911
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
Redaktion:	Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	247 x 189 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.10.2021
Gewicht:	0,971 kg