Download The Cambridge World History, vol.1-7 divided

CODE FBF16: 50% discount
The Cambridge World History
Volume 1. Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE
By David Christian
Series: The Cambridge World History
Pub Date April 2015
Hardback
ISBN 9780521763332
Pub Price £100.00
Pages: 516
Subject: History (general) before 1500
Readership: world history, prehistory, archaeology
Features
 Provides a synopsis of the current state of research in two areas: the historiography of world
history and the Paleolithic era
 Examines the relatively neglected topic of the earliest eras of human history in world history
scholarship
 Offers an authoritative work of reference by leading international scholars
Description
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, periodization, divergence and convergence, belief and knowledge, technology and innovation,
family, gender, anthropology, migration, and fire. Part II surveys the vast Paleolithic era, which laid
the foundations for human history, and concentrates 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.
Contents
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 periodization 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 R. 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 Patrick 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-Armesto
14. Early humans: tools, language and culture Christopher Ehret
15. Africa from 48,000 to 9500 BCE Christopher Ehret
16. Migration and innovation in palaeolithic Europe John F. Hoffecker
17. Asian palaeolithic dispersals Robin Dennell
18. The pleistocene colonization and occupation of Australasia Peter Hiscock
19. The pleistocene colonization and occupation of the Americas Nicole M. Waguespack.
About the Authors
David Christian, Macquarie University, Sydney
David Christian is by training a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. He taught Russian and Soviet
History at Macquarie University in Sydney, and conducted research on the diets of the nineteenthcentury Russian peasantry and in particular on the role of vodka in Russian society and fiscal systems.
In 1989 he began teaching a history course surveying the history of the Universe and placing human
history within that larger context. 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. David
Christian is the author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, 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. 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.
Contributors
David Christian, Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Dominic Sachsenmaier, Michael Lang, David
Northrup, Luke Clossey, Daniel R. Headrick, Johan Goudsblom, Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner,
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Jack Goody, Patrick Manning, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Christopher Ehret,
John F. Hoffecker, Robin Dennell, Peter Hiscock, Nicole M. Waguespack
The Cambridge World History
Volume 2. A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE–500 CE
By Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge
Candice Goucher, Washington State University
Series: The Cambridge World History
Pub Date April 2015
Hardback
ISBN 9780521192187
Pub Price £100.00
Pages: 668
Subject: History (general) before 1500
Readership: world history, prehistory, archaeology
Features
 Considers the origins of agriculture globally, going beyond a 'cradles of civilization' approach
 Presents an interdisciplinary outlook that includes authors from diverse fields

Includes thematic overviews of key issues in current scholarship, including genetics and
linguistics
Description
The development of agriculture has often been described as the most important change in all of human
history. Volume 2 of the Cambridge World History series explores the origins and impact of
agriculture and agricultural communities, and also discusses issues associated with pastoralism and
hunter-fisher-gatherer economies. To capture the patterns of this key change across the globe, the
volume uses an expanded timeframe from 12,000 BCE–500 CE, beginning with the Neolithic and
continuing into later periods. Scholars from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, historical
linguistics, biology, anthropology, and history, trace common developments in the more complex
social structures and cultural forms that agriculture enabled, such as sedentary villages and more
elaborate foodways, and then present a series of regional overviews accompanied by detailed case
studies from many different parts of the world, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, China, Japan,
Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
Contents
1. Introduction: a world with agriculture Graeme Barker and Candice Goucher
2. Archaeogenetics Maria Pala, Pedro Soares, Gyaneshwer Chaubey and Martin B. Richards
3. Agricultural origins: what linguistic evidence reveals Christopher Ehret
4. What did agriculture do for us? The bioarchaeology of health and diet Charlotte Roberts
5. Communities Amy Bogaard
6. Pastoralism Alan K. Outram
7. Agriculture and urbanism Daphne E. Gallagher and Roderick J. McIntosh
8. Early agriculture in Southwest Asia Alan H. Simmons
9. 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan Gary O. Rollefson
10. Early agriculture in South Asia Eleanor Kingwell-Banham, Cameron A. Petrie and Dorian Q. Fuller
11. Mehrgarh, Pakistan Cameron A. Petrie
12. Early agriculture in China Xinyi Liu, Dorian Q. Fuller and Martin Jones
13. Xinglonggou, China Xinyi Liu, Zhijun Zhao and Guoxiang Liu
14. Early agriculture in Japan Simon Kaner and Kenichi Yano
15. The Nara basin paddies, Japan Kenichi Okada
16. Early agriculture in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Huw Barton
17. Swamp cultivators at Kuk, New Guinea Tim Denham
18. Early agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa to c.500 CE Paul J. Lane
19. The Tichitt tradition in the West African Sahel Kevin C. MacDonald
20. Early agriculture in the Americas Deborah M. Pearsall
21. Nanchoc Valley, Peru Tom D. Dillehay
22. Early agricultural society in Europe Alasdair Whittle
23. Pioneer farmers at Brześć Kujawski, Poland Peter Bogucki and Ryszard Grygiel
Index.
About the Authors
Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge
Graeme Barker is Disney Professor of Archaeology, Director of the McDonald Institute for
Archaeological Research and Professorial Fellow, St John's College, University of Cambridge. He is the
author of The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory and Prehistoric Farming in Europe (Cambridge
University Press, 1985).
Candice Goucher, Washington State University
Candice Goucher is a Professor of History at Washington State University, Vancouver. She studied
Chemistry and Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego (BA, 1975), Art History and
Archaeology at Columbia University (MA, 1978), and African History at the University of California at
Los Angeles (PhD, 1984). As an undergraduate, she pioneered the use of lead isotope analysis to
identify ancient sources of metals, research published in Nature. Trained as an archaeologist, Candice
Goucher has conducted archaeological and historical research in the Caribbean, Mauritius, and West
Africa, where she worked with Merrick Posnansky at the site of Begho in Brong Ahafo, Ghana, and in
the Bassari region of Togo. Her research interests have continued to forge interdisciplinary and global
links in the areas of food studies, technology, culture and gender. With Linda Walton, she published
several world history textbooks, including the second edition of World History: Journeys from Past to
Present (2013) and was co-lead scholar on the Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting
multimedia project Bridging World History. Her recent book Congotay! Congotay! A Global History of
Caribbean Food (2014) examined Caribbean agriculture, culture and cuisine from ancient to modern
times.
Contributors
Graeme Barker, Candice Goucher, Maria Pala, Pedro Soares, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Martin B.
Richards, Christopher Ehret, Charlotte Roberts, Amy Bogaard, Alan K. Outram, Daphne E.
Gallagher, Roderick J. McIntosh, Alan H. Simmons, Gary O. Rollefson, Eleanor Kingwell-Banham,
Cameron A. Petrie, Dorian Q. Fuller, Xinyi Liu, Martin Jones, Zhijun Zhao, Guoxiang Liu, Simon
Kaner, Kenichi Yano, Kenichi Okada, Huw Barton, Tim Denham, Paul J. Lane, Kevin C. MacDonald,
Deborah M. Pearsall, Tom D. Dillehay, Alasdair Whittle, Peter Bogucki, Ryszard Grygiel
The Cambridge World History
Volume 3. Early Cities in Comparative Perspective, 4000 BCE–1200 CE
By Norman Yoffee
Series: The Cambridge World History
Pub Date March 2015
Hardback
ISBN 9780521190084
Pub Price £100.00
Pages: 595
Subject: History (general) before 1500
Readership: world history, prehistory, archaeology




Features
Presents the most recent research and latest information on many of the world's earliest and
ancient cities
Offers a global perspective that includes early cities in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China,
Mesoamerica and South America
Provides comparative studies, discussing information technology, cities as arenas of
performance, and imperial cities
Description
From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of
cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest cities in
Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of cities in Asia and the Mediterranean world, Africa, and the
Americas. Through case studies and comparative accounts of key cities across the world, leading
scholars chart the ways in which these cities grew as nodal points of pilgrimages and ceremonies,
exchange, storage and redistribution, and centres for defence and warfare. They show how in these
cities, along with their associated and restructured countrysides, new rituals and ceremonies
connected leaders with citizens and the gods, new identities as citizens were created, and new forms of
power and sovereignty emerged. They also examine how this unprecedented concentration of people
led to disease, violence, slavery and subjugations of unprecedented kinds and scales.
Contents
1. Introduction: a history of the study of early cities Norman Yoffee and Nicola Terrenato
Part I. Early Cities as Arenas of Performance:
2. Ancient Egyptian cities: monumentality and performance John Baines
3. The dedicated city: meaning and morphology in classic Maya urbanism Stephen Houston and
Thomas G. Garrison
4. Southeast Asian urbanism: from early city to classical state Miriam Stark
5. Cities as performance arenas John Baines, Miriam Stark, Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen Houston
Part II. Early Cities and Information Technologies:
6. Urbanization and techniques of communication: the case of the rise of the southern Mesopotamian
city of Uruk during the fourth millennium BCE Hans Nissen
7. Writing and the city in early China Wang Haicheng
8. Reading early Maya cities: interpreting the role of writing in urbanization Danny Law
9. Inka administration in Tawantinsuyu by means of the knotted-cords Gary Urton
10. Writing and record-keeping in early cities Danny Law, Wang Haicheng, Hans Nissen and Gary
Urton
Part III. Early Urban Landscapes:
11. Tiwanaku urban origins: distributed centers and animate landscapes John W. Janusek
12. Mesopotamian cities and urban process, 3500–1600 BCE Geoff Emberling
13. Teotihuacan: an early urban center in its regional context Sarah C. Clayton
14. Urban landscapes: transforming spaces and reshaping communities Geoff Emberling, Sarah C.
Clayton and John W. Janusek
Part IV. Early Cities and the Distribution of Power:
15. Ancient South Asian cities in their regions Carla M. Sinopoli
16. Greek cities in the first millennium BCE Ian Morris and Alex R. Knodell
17. Different cities: Jenne-jeno and African urbanism Roderick J. McIntosh
18. The distribution of power: hierarchy and its discontents Carla M. Sinopoli, Roderick J. McIntosh,
Ian Morris and Alex R. Knodell
Part V. Early Cities as Creations:
19. Baghdad, an imperial foundation (762–836 CE) Françoise Micheau
20. Jerusalem: capital city created in stone and in imagination Ann E. Killebrew
21. City of earth and wood: New Cahokia and its material-historical implications Timothy Pauketat,
Susan M. Alt and Jeffery D. Kruchten
22. Imagined cities Timothy R. Pauketat, Ann E. Killebrew and Françoise Micheau
Part VI. Early Imperial Cities:
23. Neo-Assyrian capital cities: from imperial headquarters to cosmopolitan cities Adelheid Otto
24. Mexico-Tenochtitlan: origin and transformations of the last Mesoamerican imperial city Gerardo
Gutiérrez
25. The archetypal imperial city: the rise of Rome and the burdens of empire Nicola Terrenato
26. Imperial cities Nicola Terrenato, Gerardo Gutierrez and Adelheid Otto
27. Conclusion: the meanings of early cities Norman Yoffee.
About the Authors
Norman Yoffee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Norman Yoffee is author of Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and
Civilizations (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Professor Emeritus, Departments of Near Eastern
Studies and Anthropology, University of Michigan; Senior Fellow, Institute for the Study of the
Ancient World, New York University. He has taught at the University of Arizona, the University of
Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Oxford, and the Free University of
Berlin. He is the author or editor of 13 books, over 100 articles and reviews, and more than 200 invited
lectures in 33 US universities and in 22 foreign countries. He holds an honorary degree (Doctor of
Letters) from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He is also Editor of the Cambridge World
Archaeology series (28 volumes).
Contributors
Norman Yoffee, Nicola Terrenato, John Baines, Stephen Houston, Thomas G. Garrison, Miriam
Stark, Hans Nissen, Wang Haicheng, Danny Law, Gary Urton, John W. Janusek, Geoff Emberling,
Sarah C. Clayton, Carla M. Sinopoli, Ian Morris, Alex R. Knodell, Roderick J. McIntosh, Françoise
Micheau, Ann E. Killebrew, Timothy Pauketat, Susan M. Alt, Jeffery D. Kruchten, Adelheid Otto,
Gerardo Gutiérrez
The Cambridge World History
Volume 4. A World with States, Empires and Networks 1200 BCE–900 CE
By Craig Benjamin
Series: The Cambridge World History
Pub Date April 2015
Hardback
ISBN 9781107015722
Pub Price £100.00
Pages: 732
Subject: History (general) before 1500
Readership: world history, archaeology, prehistory
Features
 Brings together a team of leading classicists, archaeologists and world historians to offer a
distinctive new global history of the ancient world
 Explores key developments in the ancient world at three interacting scales: global,
interregional, and regional
 Represents the most recent thinking about global history in its exploration of the political,
social, cultural, economic and intellectual developments of the period
Description
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as
networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and expansion of these
large-scale entities, this fourth volume of the Cambridge World History series outlines key economic,
political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments that occurred across the globe in this period.
Leading scholars examine critical transformations in science and technology, economic systems,
attitudes towards gender and family, social hierarchies, education, art, and slavery. The second part of
the volume focuses on broader processes of change within western and central Eurasia, the
Mediterranean, South Asia, Africa, East Asia, Europe, the Americas and Oceania, as well as offering
regional studies highlighting specific topics, from trade along the Silk Roads and across the Sahara, to
Chaco culture in the US southwest, to Confucianism and the state in East Asia.
Contents
1. Introduction: the world from 1200 BCE to 900 CE Craig Benjamin
Part I. Global Histories:
2. Global economic history Sitta von Reden
3. The gendering of power in the family and the state Scott Wells and Ping Yao
4. Slavery Peter Hunt
5. The axial age in world history Björn Wittrock
6. Developments in science and technology c.800 BCE to c.800 CE Helmuth Schneider
7. Discourses on gender and sexuality Scott Wells and Ping Yao
8. Art Robert Bagley
9. Pastoral nomads Tim May
Part II. Trans-Regional and Regional Perspectives:
10. Western and Central Eurasia Touraj Daryaee
11. Regional study: Bactria - the crossroads of ancient Eurasia Jeffrey Lerner
12. The Mediterranean Craig Benjamin and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
13. Regional study: Athens in the fifth century BCE William Morison
14. Late antiquity in Europe c.300–900 CE Charles F. Pazdernik
15. East Asia Charles Holcombe
16. Regional study: Confucianism and the state Xinzhong Yao
17. Regional study: exchanges within the Silk Roads world system Xinru Liu
18. South Asia Shonaleeka Kaul
19. Regional study: Pataliputra Shonaleeka Kaul
20. The Americas Erica Begun and Janet Brashler
21. Regional study: Chaco culture and the US Southwest Stephen H. Lekson
22. Australasia and the Pacific Ian J. McNiven
23. Africa: states, empires, and connections Stanley Burstein
24. Regional study: trans-Saharan trade Ralph Austen.
About the Authors
Craig Benjamin, Grand Valley State University, Michigan
Craig Benjamin is an Associate Professor of History at Frederik J. Meijer Honors College, Grand Valley
State University, Michigan, USA. At GVSU, he teaches Big History, world history, and East and Central
Asian history, to students at all levels, from first-year to postgraduate. He is a frequent guest presenter
at conferences worldwide, and the author of numerous published books, chapters and essays on
ancient Central Asian history, Big History, and world history. He is co-author (with David Christian
and Cynthia Brown) of a Big History textbook – Big History: Between Nothing and Everything (2013).
Benjamin has recorded several programs and lecture series for The History Channel, The Teaching
Company and Scientific American magazine. He is also a member of the College Board Test
Development Committees for both the AP and SAT World History exams; Treasurer of the
International Big History Association; and current President (2014/15) of the World History
Association.
Contributors
Craig Benjamin, Sitta von Reden, Scott Wells, Ping Yao, Peter Hunt, Björn Wittrock, Helmuth
Schneider, Robert Bagley, Tim May, Touraj Daryaee, Jeffrey Lerner, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks,
William Morison, Charles F. Pazdernik, Charles Holcombe, Xinzhong Yao, Xinru Liu, Shonaleeka
Kaul, Erica Begun, Janet Brashler, Stephen H. Lekson, Ian J. McNiven, Stanley Burstein, Ralph
Austen
The Cambridge World History
Volume 5. Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500CE–1500CE
By Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Series: The Cambridge World History
Pub Date April 2015
Hardback
ISBN 9780521190749
Pub Price £100.00
Pages: 748
Subject: History (general) before 1500
Readership: world history, prehistory, archaeology
Features
 The first comprehensive history of all world regions during the Middle Ages
 Discusses global developments in core spheres, offering a comparative history on a broad
range of topics
 Examines the early history of globalization through growing trade networks, cross-cultural
communication, and the rise of centralized states
Description
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest,
and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems,
during the period 500 to 1500. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and processes
across the world, including human relations with nature, gender and family, social hierarchies,
education, and warfare. Further essays examine maritime and land-based networks of long-distance
trade and migration in agricultural and nomadic societies, and the transmission and exchange of
cultural forms, scientific knowledge, technologies, and text-based religious systems that accompanied
these. The final section surveys the development of centralized regional states and empires in both the
eastern and western hemispheres. Together these essays by an international team of leading authors
show how processes furthering cultural, commercial, and political integration within and between
various regions of the world made this millennium a 'proto-global' era.
Contents
1. Introduction Benjamin Z. Kedar and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Part I. Global Developments:
2. Humans and the environment: tension and co-evolution Joachim Radkau
3. Women, family, gender, and sexuality Susan Stuard
4. Society: hierarchy and solidarity Susan Reynolds
5. Educational institutions Linda Walton
6. Warfare Clifford Rogers
Part II. Eurasian Commonalities:
7. Courtly cultures: Western Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic world, India, China, and Japan Patrick
Geary, Daud Ali, Paul S. Atkins, Michael Cooperson, Rita Costa Gomes, Paul Dutton, Gert Melville,
Claudia Rapp, Karl-Heinz Spieß, Stephen West and Pauline Yu
8. The age of trans-regional reorientations: cultural crystallization and transformation in the tenth to
thirteenth centuries Björn Wittrock
Part III. Growing Interactions:
9. Trade and commerce across Afro-Eurasia Richard Smith
10. European and Mediterranean trade networks Michel Balard
11. Trading partners across the Indian Ocean: the making of maritime communities Himanshu Ray
12. Technology and innovation within expanding webs of exchange Dagmar Schaefer and Marcus
Popplow
13. The transmission of science and philosophy Charles Burnett
14. Pastoral nomadic migrations and conquests Anatoly Khazanov
Part IV. Expanding Religious Systems:
15. The centrality of Islamic civilization Michael Cook
16. Christendom's regional systems Miri Rubin
17. The spread of Buddhism Tansen Sen
Part V. State Formations:
18. State formation and empire building Johann Arnason
19. State formation in China from the Sui through the Song dynasties Richard von Glahn
20. The Mongol empire and inter-civilizational exchange Michal Biran
21. Byzantium Jean-Claude Cheynet
22. Early polities of the Western Sudan David Conrad
23. Mesoamerican state formation in the postclassic period Michael E. Smith
24. State and religion in the Inca empire Sabine MacCormack
25. 'Proto-globalization' and 'proto-glocalizations' in the middle millennium Diego Olstein.
About the Authors
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Professor Emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a leading
historian of the crusades and the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the founding editor of the
journal Crusades. He has employed varieties of the comparative approach in his Merchants in Crisis
(1976), Crusade and Mission (1984), and in numerous articles. He has also proposed to use series of
aerial photographs of the same area, shot at different points in time, as reliable sources for the history
of Palestine/Israel from 1917 onward. Kedar served as president of the Society for the Study of the
Crusades and the Latin East and chaired the board of the Israel Antiquities Authority, and is currently
vice-president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is a corresponding member of
the Medieval Academy of America and of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Munich).
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the History Department at the
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She began her scholarly career as a historian of early modern
Europe, with a particular focus on women and gender, and remains a leader in that field, serving as the
president of three scholarly societies and since 1996 as the Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century
Journal. Since 2000 she has also moved into world and global history, and now serves as one of the
editors of the Journal of Global History. She is the author or editor of twenty books and many articles
that have appeared in English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and
Korean. These include Early Modern Europe 1450–1789, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press,
2013), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, 3rd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2008),
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice, 2nd
edition (2010) and Gender in History: Global Perspectives, 2nd edition (2010). Her research has been
supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, among others.
Contributors
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Joachim Radkau, Susan Stuard, Susan Reynolds,
Linda Walton, Clifford Rogers, Patrick Geary, Daud Ali, Paul S. Atkins, Michael Cooperson, Rita
Costa Gomes, Paul Dutton, Gert Melville, Claudia Rapp, Karl-Heinz Spieß, Stephen West, Pauline Yu,
Björn Wittrock, Richard Smith, Michel Balard, Himanshu Ray, Dagmar Schaefer, Marcus Popplow,
Charles Burnett, Anatoly Khazanov, Michael Cook, Miri Rubin, Tansen Sen, Johann Arnason,
Richard von Glahn, Michal Biran, Jean-Claude Cheynet, David Conrad, Michael E. Smith, Sabine
MacCormack, Diego Olstein
The Cambridge World History
Volume 6. The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE
Part 1. Foundations
By Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Series: The Cambridge World History
Pub Date April 2015
Hardback
ISBN 9780521761628
Pub Price £100.00
Pages: 514
Subject: History (general) after 1500;
Readership: world history, early modern history
Features
 Focuses on all world regions, including large-scale political formations and crossroads regions
 Examines the early history of globalization and long-distance cultural exchange through
chapters focusing on migrations, encounters, and exchange
 Includes a series of chapters on religious change, an often overlooked topic in world history
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.
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.
About the Authors
Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Jerry H. Bentley (1949–2012) was a Professor of History at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa. 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. 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. 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. He developed
standards and curriculum locally, nationally, and internationally, established a flourishing PhD
program in world history at the University of Hawaii, directed numerous seminars for scholars and
teachers across the globe, and fostered a world history program at Capital Normal University in
Beijing.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a Distinguished Professor of History, and the Navin and Pratima Doshi
Endowed Chair in Pre-Modern Indian History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he
served as founding Director of the Center for India and South Asia from 2005 to 2011. Educated at the
University of Delhi and the Delhi School of Economics, he held positions at the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at the University of Oxford before joining the UCLA faculty.
In 2012, he received the Infosys Prize in the humanities, and in 2013, he was elected to the chair in
Histoire Globale de la Première Modernité at the Collège de France in Paris. He was Joint Managing
Editor of the Indian Economic and Social History Review for over a decade, besides serving on the
boards of a number of other journals in the US, UK, France, Portugal, and elsewhere. He is the author
or editor of many articles and nearly thirty books that have been translated into multiple languages,
including The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500–1700: A Political and Economic History (1993), The
Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Indo-Persian Travels in
the Age of Discoveries (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the History Department at the
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She began her scholarly career as a historian of early modern
Europe, with a particular focus on women and gender, and remains a leader in that field, serving as the
president of three scholarly societies and since 1996 as the Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century
Journal. Since 2000 she has also moved into world and global history, and now serves as one of the
editors of the Journal of Global History. She is the author or editor of twenty books and many articles
that have appeared in English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and
Korean. These include Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789 (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition,
2013), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 3rd edition, 2008),
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice (2nd
edition, 2010) and Gender in History: Global Perspectives (2nd edition, 2010). Her research has been
supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, among others.
Contributors
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Robert Marks, James Webb, Francesca Bray, Peter Burke, Merry WiesnerHanks,Thomas T. Allsen, Jos Gommans, Matthew Restall, Ray A. Kea, Jorge Flores, Laura Hostetler,
Giancarlo Casale, Morris Rossabi, Michael Laffan, Alan Karras, Filippo de Vivo, Jack Goldstone
The Cambridge World History
Volume 6. The Construction of a Global World, 1400–1800 CE
Part 2. Patterns of Change
By Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Series: The Cambridge World History
Pub Date April 2015
Hardback
ISBN 9780521192460
Pub Price £100.00
Pages: 512
Subject: History (general) after 1500
Readership: world history, early modern history
Features
 Focuses on all world regions, including large-scale political formations and crossroads regions
 Examines the early history of globalization and long-distance cultural exchange through
chapters focusing on migrations, encounters, and exchange
 Includes a series of chapters on religious change, an often overlooked topic in world history
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.
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 R. Po-Chia 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.
About the Authors
Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Jerry H. Bentley (1949–2012) was a Professor of History at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa.
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 Hawaiʻi in 1976 he
emerged as one of the international leaders in world history scholarship and teaching. 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. He was the founding editor of the Journal of World History, and served as its editor-inchief for twenty-two years, and was also a founding member of the World History Association in 1982.
He developed standards and curriculum locally, nationally, and internationally, established a
flourishing PhD program in world history at the University of Hawai'i, directed numerous seminars for
scholars and teachers across the globe, and fostered a world history program at Capital Normal
University in Beijing.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a Distinguished Professor of History, and the Navin and Pratima Doshi
Endowed Chair in Pre-Modern Indian History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he
served as founding Director of the Center for India and South Asia from 2005 to 2011. Educated at the
University of Delhi and the Delhi School of Economics, he held positions at the École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at the University of Oxford before joining the UCLA faculty.
In 2012, he received the Infosys Prize in the humanities, and in 2013, he was elected to the chair in
Histoire Globale de la Première Modernité at the Collège de France in Paris. He was Joint Managing
Editor of the Indian Economic and Social History Review for over a decade, besides serving on the
boards of a number of other journals in the US, UK, France, Portugal, and elsewhere. He is the author
or editor of many articles and nearly thirty books that have been translated into multiple languages,
including The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500–1700: A Political and Economic History (1993), The
Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Indo-Persian Travels in
the Age of Discoveries (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the History Department at the
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She began her scholarly career as a historian of early modern
Europe, with a particular focus on women and gender, and remains a leader in that field, serving as the
president of three scholarly societies and since 1996 as the Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century
Journal. Since 2000 she has also moved into world and global history, and now serves as one of the
editors of the Journal of Global History. She is the author or editor of twenty books and many articles
that have appeared in English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and
Korean. These include Early Modern Europe 1450–1789, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press,
2013), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, 3rd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2008),
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice, 2nd
edition (2010) and Gender in History: Global Perspectives, 2nd edition (2010). Her research has been
supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, among others.
Contributors
Dirk Hoerder, Jeremy Black, John E. Wills, Jr, Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow, Noble David Cook,
John Thornton, Francesca Trivellato, Charles H. Parker, Dennis O. Flynn, James D. Tracy, Trevor
Burnard, R. Bin Wong, Kaoru Sugihara, Guy Stroumsa, R. Po-Chia Hsia, Nile Greene, Eugenio
Menegon, Gina Cogan, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Carlo Ginzburg
The Cambridge World History
Volume 7. Production, Destruction and Connection, 1750–Present
Part 1. Structures, Spaces, and Boundary Making
By John McNeill, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago
Series: The Cambridge World History
Pub Date April 2015
Hardback
ISBN 9781107000209
Pub Price £100.00
Pages: 600
Subject: History (general) after 1500
Readership: world history, modern history
Features
 Considers modern world history from a variety of perspectives, including economic, political,
cultural and social
 Sets major world regions in a global context
 Highlights the increasing interconnectedness of the world's nations, cultures and peoples
Description
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction
no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the
Cambridge World History series, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the
increasingly interconnected history of humankind. The first book examines structures, spaces, and
processes within which and through which the modern world was created, including the environment,
energy, technology, population, disease, law, industrialization, imperialism, decolonization,
nationalism, and socialism, along with key world regions.
Contents
1. Production, destruction, and connection, 1750 to the present: introduction Kenneth Pomeranz and
J. R. McNeill
Part I. Material Matrices:
2. Energy, population, and environmental change since 1750: entering the anthropocene J. R. McNeill
3. The economic history of agriculture since 1800 Giovanni Federico
4. Global industrialization: a multipolar perspective Kaoru Sugihara
5. The history of world technology, 1750 to the present Paul Josephson
6. A new world of energy Vaclav Smil
Part II. Population and Disease:
7. Demography and population Massimo Livi-Bacci
8. Population politics since 1750 Alison Bashford
9. Disease and world history from 1750 Mark Harrison
10. The politics of smallpox eradication Erez Manela
Part III. Politics:
11. The evolution of international law Anthony Clark Arend
12. On nationalism Aviel Roshwald
13. Assessing imperialism Danielle Kinsey
14. Self-strengthening and other political responses to the expansion of European economic and
political power R. Bin Wong
15. Decolonization and its legacy Prasenjit Duara
16. Genocide Mark Levene
17. Communism and fascism Robert Strayer
Part IV. World Regions:
18. The Middle East in world history since 1750 John Obert Voll
19. East Asia in world history, 1750–21st century Mark Selden
20. Latin America in world history Julie A. Charlip
21. Africa in world history Frederick Cooper
22. The United States in world history since the 1750s Ian Tyrrell
23. The economic history of the Pacific Lionel Frost.
About the Authors
John McNeill, Georgetown University, Washington DC
J. R. McNeill studied at Swarthmore College and Duke University and has taught at Georgetown
University since 1985. He has held two Fulbright awards, Guggenheim, MacArthur Foundation and
Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships, and a visiting appointment at the École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales. His books include The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain, 1700–1765 (1985); The
Mountains of the Mediterranean World (1992); Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental
History of the Twentieth-Century World (2000), co-winner of the World History Association book
prize, the Forest History Society book prize, and runner-up for the BP Natural World book prize, listed
by the London Times among the ten best science books ever written (despite not being a science book)
and translated into nine languages; The Human Web: A Bird's-eye View of World History (2003), coauthored with his father, William McNeill, and translated into seven languages; and most recently,
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (2010), which won the
Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association and was listed by the Wall Street Journal
among the best books in early American history. In 2010 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for
'academic and public contributions to humanity'.
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago
Kenneth Pomeranz is University Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago. His work
focuses mostly on China, though he is also very interested in comparative and world history. His
publications include The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World
Economy (2000), which won the John K. Fairbank Prize from the AHA, and shared the World History
Association book prize and has been translated into seven languages; The Making of a Hinterland:
State, Society and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937 (1993), which also won the Fairbank
Prize; The World that Trade Created (with Steven Topik, first edition 1999, 3rd edition 2012), and a
collection of essays recently published in France. He has also edited or co-edited five books, and was
one of the founding editors of the Journal of Global History. He is a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American
Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Studies,
the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other sources. In 2012 he was elected president of
the American Historical Association.
Contributors
Kenneth Pomeranz, J. R. McNeill, Giovanni Federico, Kaoru Sugihara, Paul Josephson, Vaclav Smil,
Massimo Livi-Bacci, Alison Bashford, Mark Harrison, Erez Manela, Anthony Clark Arend, Aviel
Roshwald, Danielle Kinsey, R. Bin Wong, Prasenjit Duara, Mark Levene, Robert Strayer, John Obert
Voll, Mark Selden, Julie A. Charlip, Frederick Cooper, Ian Tyrrell, Lionel Frost
The Cambridge World History
Volume 7. Production, Destruction and Connection 1750–Present
Part 2. Shared Transformations
By John McNeill, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago
Series: The Cambridge World History
Pub Date April 2015
Hardback
ISBN 9780521199643
Pub Price £100.00
Pages: 570
Subject: History (general) after 1500
Readership: world history, modern history
Features
 Considers modern world history from a variety of perspectives, including economic, political,
cultural and social
 Sets major world regions in a global context
 Highlights the increasing interconnectedness of the world's nations, cultures and peoples
Description
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction
no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the
Cambridge World History series, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the
increasingly interconnected history of humankind. The second book questions the extent to which the
transformations of the modern world have been shared, focussing on social developments such as
urbanization, migration, and changes in family and sexuality; cultural connections through religion,
science, music, and sport; ligaments of globalization including rubber, drugs, and the automobile; and
moments of particular importance from the Atlantic Revolutions to 1989.
Contents
Part I. Social Developments:
1. Migrations Dirk Hoerder
2. World urbanization, 1750 to the present Lynn Hollen Lees
3. The family in modern world history Peter N. Stearns
4. Continuities and change in sexual behaviour and attitudes since 1750 Julie Peakman
5. Abolitions Alessandro Stanziani
Part II. Culture and Connections:
6. Department stores and the commodification of culture: artful marketing in a globalizing world
Antonia Finnane
7. Religion after 1750 Peter van der Veer
8. Science since 1750 James E. McClellan, III
9. Music on the move, as object, as commodity Timothy D. Taylor
10. Sport since 1750 Susan Brownell
11. World cinema Lalitha Gopalan
Part III. Moments:
12. Atlantic revolutions: a reinterpretation Jaime E. Rodríguez O.
13. Global war 1914–45 Richard Overy
14. The Cold War Daniel Sargent
15. 1956 Carole Fink
16. 1989 as a year of great significance Nicole Rebec and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Part IV. Ligaments of Globalization:
17. Transportation and communication, 1750 to the present Daniel R. Headrick
18. Rubber Richard Tucker
19. Drugs in the modern era William B. McAllister
20. The automobile Bernhard Rieger
21. Globalization, Anglo-American style Thomas W. Zeiler.
About the Authors
John McNeill, Georgetown University, Washington DC
J. R. McNeill studied at Swarthmore College and Duke University and has taught at Georgetown
University since 1985. He has held two Fulbright awards, Guggenheim, MacArthur Foundation and
Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships, and a visiting appointment at the École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales. His books include The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain, 1700–1765 (1985); The
Mountains of the Mediterranean World (1992); Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental
History of the Twentieth-Century World (2000), co-winner of the World History Association book
prize, the Forest History Society book prize, and runner-up for the BP Natural World book prize, listed
by the London Times among the ten best science books ever written (despite not being a science book)
and translated into nine languages; The Human Web: A Bird's-eye View of World History (2003), coauthored with his father, William McNeill, and translated into seven languages; and most recently,
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (2010), which won the
Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association and was listed by the Wall Street Journal
among the best books in early American history. In 2010 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for
'academic and public contributions to humanity'.
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago
Kenneth Pomeranz is University Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago. His work
focuses mostly on China, though he is also very interested in comparative and world history. His
publications include The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World
Economy (2000), which won the John K. Fairbank Prize from the AHA, and shared the World History
Association book prize and has been translated into seven languages; The Making of a Hinterland:
State, Society and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937 (1993), which also won the Fairbank
Prize; The World that Trade Created (with Steven Topik, first edition 1999, 3rd edition 2012), and a
collection of essays recently published in France. He has also edited or co-edited five books, and was
one of the founding editors of the Journal of Global History. He is a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American
Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Studies,
the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other sources. In 2012 he was elected president of
the American Historical Association.
Contributors
Dirk Hoerder, Lynn Hollen Lees, Peter N. Stearns, Julie Peakman, Alessandro Stanziani, Antonia
Finnane, Peter van der Veer, James E. McClellan, III, Timothy D. Taylor, Susan Brownell, Lalitha
Gopalan, Jaime E. Rodríguez O., Richard Overy, Daniel Sargent, Carole Fink, Nicole Rebec, Jeffrey
Wasserstrom, Daniel R. Headrick, Richard Tucker, William B. McAllister, Bernhard Rieger, Thomas
W. Zeiler