The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Cambridge_World_History&oldid=811241253, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 November 2017, at 11:10. The book is okay. Please try again. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. For full access: View Now . Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Jerry H. Bentley (1949–2012) was a Professor of History at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa. The intricacies and challenges of musical performance have recently attracted the attention of writers and The Cambridge World History of Human Disease book. Approach. The collection traces the dynamic history from the ... Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times ... Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices. Second, it compares and connects the history of regions and empires through convergence and … Norman Yoffee - "Early Cities and the Evolution of History". The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American Does this book contain inappropriate content? In 1989 he began teaching a history course surveying the history of the Universe and placing human history within that larger context. He is currently completing the second volume of a synoptic history of Inner Eurasia, the lands at the heart of the Eurasian landmass, from prehistory to the present day. First, it is characterised by a deep commitment to engagement with specific places and contexts. university, and a guide to visits within a short driving distance, it also features a variety of aspects ignored in other accounts: food and fashion, ... •An illustrated guide to the buildings and gardens that have helped shape the identity, spirit ... •An illustrated guide to the buildings and gardens that have helped shape the identity, spirit The second discusses the development of agriculture and the period 12,000 BCE to 500 CE. Log in via your academic institution. --This text refers to the. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser, ©1997-2020 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. --This text refers to the. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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. David Christian is by training a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. He was the founding editor of the Journal of World History, and served as its editor-in-chief for twenty-two years, and was also a founding member of the World History Association in 1982. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. David Christian is the author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (2011), and co-founder with Bill Gates of the Big History Project (bighistoryproject.com), which has created a free online big history course for high school students. scholars to a greater extent than ever before. poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. This approach has since come to be known as 'big history', and it led to an increasing interest in world history, particularly in world history at very large scales. The few chapters that I’ve read so far are stellar. [2], Last edited on 20 November 2017, at 11:10. Cambridge University Press; Illustrated Edition (April 9, 2015), Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits, Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2019. Educated at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the University of Minnesota, his early research focused on Renaissance humanist scholarship of the Bible, but after coming to Hawaii in 1976 he emerged as one of the international leaders in world history scholarship and teaching. The editor in chief is Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. He published a wide range of articles on comparative and transnational methods in history and several books, including the seminal Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contact and Exchange in Pre-Modern Times (1993) and one of the most popular textbooks for teaching world history, Traditions and Encounters. 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. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. The work is in seven volumes over nine books, volumes 6 and 7 being published in two parts each. 2008 and Kenneth F. Kiple, 1939-2016 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015, originally published 2000), 1046 page(s) This is a sample. Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF SLAVERY Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves and owners of slaves. involved in the emergence of the Christian religion in the Mediterranean world over the first three centuries. The history takes a comparativist approach. Please try again. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. You are listening to a sample of the Audible narration for this Kindle book. Please try again. 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. Jeremy Adelman, Journal of World History, Comprehensive account of the intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections, between 1400 and 1800. Volume I surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. The separate volumes take a thematic and chronologically overlapping approach. It gives a general introduction to world history, however, it’s not well organized. The Cambridge World History: Volume 6, The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 2, Patterns of Change, The Cambridge World History: Volume 5, Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500CE–1500CE, The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present, Part 1, Structures, Spaces, and Boundary Making, The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations, The Cambridge World History: Volume 4, A World with States, Empires and Networks 1200 BCE–900 CE, The Cambridge World History: Volume 1, Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE, A Concise History of the World (Cambridge Concise Histories), The Cambridge World History: Volume 3, Early Cities in Comparative Perspective, 4000 BCE–1200 CE, '… gives us a view of the state of the art of a venerable field, with valuable surveys of early modern features of world lifeways from the importance of the environment and resources to disease, urbanization, and household structures.' Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. These flaws make CUP’s kindle edition nearly unreadable. World history at Cambridge proceeds on complementary scales. The Cambridge World History of Food (Volume Two) edited by Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas, fl. Each volume is organised as a series of essays with accompanying photographs, illustrations, diagrams and maps. Use up arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+up arrow) and down arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+down arrow) to review and enter to select. Click or Press Enter to view the items in your shopping bag or Press Tab to interact with the Shopping bag tooltip. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. An Armchair Traveller's History of Cambridge provides not only a narrative of the city and ... An Armchair Traveller's History of Cambridge provides not only a narrative of the city and Buy Online, Pick up in Store is currently unavailable, but this item may be available for in-store purchase. The Cambridge World History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. The editor in chief is Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. Read with the free Kindle apps (available on iOS, Android, PC & Mac), Kindle E-readers and on Fire Tablet devices. Later volumes cover progressively shorter but still overlapping periods. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. distances and time, world history has come of age. You can view Barnes & Noble’s Privacy Policy. 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. The Cambridge World History: Volume 6, The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE, Part 1, Foundations - Kindle edition by Bentley, Jerry H., Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Please choose from the following options to gain full access to this content. On clicking this link, a new layer will be open, Highlight, take notes, and search in the book, In this edition, page numbers are just like the physical edition. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Foundations. We have expertise in South Asian, Southeast and East Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, African, Caribbean and Latin American histories. and in different places. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. The Cambridge World History is a seven volume history of the world in nine books published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Speaking in 2013, the editor of volume three, Norman Yoffee, described the history as being "conceived by a group of world historians, that is people who insist that large indeed global relations are essential in understanding local histories, and they are dedicated comparativists."[1].