The world : a history
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The world : a history
Pearson, c2011
International ed
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"Combined volume" -- t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The World: A History interweaves two stories: the story of our interactions with nature and the story of our interactions with each other. The environment-centered story is about humans distancing themselves from the rest of nature and searching for a relationship that strikes a balance between constructive and destructive exploitation. The culture-centered story is about how human cultures have become mutually influential and yet mutually differentiating. Both stories have been going on for thousands of years.
Conveniently portable and highly readable, with engaging typefaces and interior designs.
Table of Contents
Brief Contents
Contents
Maps
Special Features
Getting the Most Out of the Maps in The World
About Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
From the Author to the Reader
Introducing The World
Acknowledgments
A Note on Dates and Spelling
Part 1: Foragers and Farmers, to 5000 B.C.E.
Chapter 1: Out of the Ice: Peopling the Earth
Chapter 2: Out of the Mud: Farming and Herding after the Ice Age
Part 2: Farmers and Builders, 5000 to 500 B.C.E.
Chapter 3: The Great River Valleys: Accelerating Change and Developing States
Chapter 4: A Succession of Civilizations: Ambition and Instability
Chapter 5: Rebuilding the World: Recoveries, New Initiatives, and Their Limits
Part 3: The Axial Age, from 500 B.C.E. to 100 C.E.
Chapter 6: The Great Schools
Chapter 7: The Great Empires
Part 4: Fitful Transitions, from the Third Century to the Tenth Century
Chapter 8: Postimperial Worlds: Problems of Empires in Eurasia and Africa, ca. 200 C.E. to ca. 700 C.E.
Chapter 9: The Rise of World Religions: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
Chapter 10: Remaking the World: Innovation and Renewal on Environmental Frontiers in the Late First Millennium
Part 5: Contacts and Conflicts, 1000 C.E. to 1200 C.E.
Chapter 11: Contending with Isolation: ca. 1000-1200
Chapter 12: The Nomadic Frontiers: The Islamic World, Byzantium, and China ca. 1000-1200
Part 6: The Crucible: The Eurasian Crises of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Chapter 13: The World the Mongols Made
Chapter 14: The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century
Chapter 15: Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Part 7: Convergence and Divergence, to ca. 1700
Chapter 16: Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Chapter 17: The Ecological Revolution of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Chapter 18: Mental Revolutions: Religion and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Chapter 19: States and Societies: Political and Social Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Part 8: Global Enlightenments, 1700-1800
Chapter 20: Driven by Growth: The Global Economy in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 21: The Age of Global Interaction: Expansion and Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Empires
Chapter 22:The Exchange of Enlightenments: Eighteenth-Century Thought
Part 9: The Frustrations of Progress, to ca. 1900
Chapter 23: Replacing Muscle: The Energy Revolutions
Chapter 24: The Social Mold: Work and Society in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 25: Western Dominance in the Nineteenth Century: The Westward Shift of Power and the Rise of Global Empires
Chapter 26: The Changing State: Political Developments in the Nineteenth Century
Part 10: Chaos and Complexity: The World in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 27: The Twentieth-Century Mind: Western Science and the World
Chapter 28: World Order and Disorder: Global Politics in the Twentieth
Chapter 29: The Pursuit of Utopia: Civil Society in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 30: The Embattled Biosphere: The Twentieth-Century Environment
Glossary
Credits
Notes
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
