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The construction of a global world, 1400-1800 CE

edited by Jerry H. Bentley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

(The Cambridge world history, v. 6)

Cambridge University Press, 2017

  • pt. 1 : pbk
  • pt. 2 : pbk

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Contents: pt. 1. Foundations

Contents: pt. 2. Patterns of change

Includes bibliographical references and index

"First published 2015" --T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

pt. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781108407731

Description

The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. 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. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction Sanjay Subrahmanyam
  • Part I. Global Matrices: 2. 'Exhausting the earth': environment and history in the early modern world Robert Marks
  • 3. Globalization of disease, 1300-1900 James Webb
  • 4. Technological transitions Francesca Bray
  • 5. Patterns of urbanization, 1400-1800 Peter Burke
  • 6. Gender and sexuality Merry Wiesner-Hanks
  • Part II. Macro-Regions: 7. Eurasia after the Mongols Thomas T. Allsen
  • 8. Continuity and change in the Indian Ocean basin Jos Gommans
  • 9. The Americas in the age of indigenous empires Matthew Restall
  • 10. Africa in world history, 1400-1800 Ray A. Kea
  • Part III. Large-Scale Political Formations: 11. The Iberian empires, 1400-1800 Jorge Flores
  • 12. Imperial competition in Eurasia: Russia and China Laura Hostetler
  • 13. The Islamic empires of the early modern world Giancarlo Casale
  • Part IV. Crossroads Regions: 14. Crossroads region: Central Asia Morris Rossabi
  • 15. Crossroads region: Southeast Asia Michael Laffan
  • 16. The Caribbean region: crucible for modern world history Alan Karras
  • 17. Crossroads region: the Mediterranean Filippo de Vivo
  • Part V. Overview: 18. Political trajectories compared Jack Goldstone.
Volume

pt. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781108407748

Description

The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. 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. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history.

Table of Contents

  • Part I. Migrations and Encounters: 1. Global migrations Dirk Hoerder
  • 2. Patterns of warfare, 1400-1800 Jeremy Black
  • 3. The first global dialogues: inter-cultural relations, 1400-1800 John E. Wills, Jr
  • 4. Legal encounters and the origins of global law Lauren Benton and Adam Clulow
  • Part II. Trade, Exchange, and Production: 5. The Columbian exchange Noble David Cook
  • 6. The slave trade and the African diaspora John Thornton
  • 7. The organization of trade in Europe and Asia, 1400-1800 Francesca Trivellato
  • 8. Entrepreneurs, families and companies Charles H. Parker
  • 9. Silver in global context, 1400-1800 Dennis O. Flynn
  • 10. Dutch and English trade to the east: the Indian Ocean and the Levant, to about 1700 James D. Tracy
  • 11. Plantation societies Trevor Burnard
  • 12. Industrious revolutions in early modern world history R. Bin Wong and Kaoru Sugihara
  • Part III. Religion and Religious Change: 13. The scholarly discovery of religion in early modern times Guy Stroumsa
  • 14. Christianity in Europe and overseas Ronnie Hsia
  • 15. Islam in the early modern world Nile Greene
  • 16. Religious change in East Asia Eugenio Menegon and Gina Cogan
  • Part IV. Questions of Method: 17. On early modern historiography Sanjay Subrahmanyam
  • 18. Microhistory and world history Carlo Ginzburg.

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  • NCID
    BB2532741X
  • ISBN
    • 9781108407731
    • 9781108407748
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge, U.K.
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 volumes
  • Size
    23 cm
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