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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