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The Oxford History of the World
bHistories you can trust./b

Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.

The Oxford History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.
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The Oxford History of the World
bHistories you can trust./b

Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.

The Oxford History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.
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The Oxford History of the World

The Oxford History of the World

by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Editor)
The Oxford History of the World
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The Oxford History of the World

The Oxford History of the World

by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Editor)

Overview

bHistories you can trust./b

Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.

The Oxford History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780192884022
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 08/25/2023
Series: The Oxford History of...
Pages: 528
Sales rank: 911,345
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 5.10(h) x 2.40(d)

About the Author

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Wm. P. Reynolds Professor of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame

Felipe Fernández-Armesto was an undergraduate and graduate student at Oxford (Demy of Magdalen College, Senior Scholar of St John´s, Fellow of St Antony´s) where he was a member of the Modern History Faculty before moving to chairs in the University of London (Professor of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary College), Tufts University (Prince of Asturias Professor), and the University of Notre Dame, where he holds the William P. Reynolds Chair for Mission in Arts and Letters. His work, which has covered many fields and disciplines and has appeared in twenty-seven languages, has won him numerous awards, including the John Carter Brown Medal, a World History Association Book Prize (for Pathfinders, 2007), Spain´s national prizes for geography and food-writing, and, most recently, the Gran Cruz de la Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio, Spain´s highest award for services to education and the arts.

Table of Contents

Part I: Children of the Ice1. Humanity From the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of an Adaptive Species, Clive Gamble2. The Mind in the Ice: Art and Thought before Agriculture, Felipe Fernández-ArmestoPart II: Of Mud and Metal3. Into a Warming World, Martin Jones4. The Farmers' Empires: Climax and Crises in Agrarian States and Cities, Felipe Fernández-ArmestoPart III: The Oscillations of Empires5. Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to the Black Death, John Brooke6. Intellectual Traditions: Philosophy, Science, Religion, and the Arts, 500 BCE - 1350 CE, David Northrup7. Growth: Social and Political Organizations, 1000 BC-AD 1350, Ian MorrisPart IV: The Climatic Reversal8. A Converging World: Economic and Ecological Encounters, 1350-1815, David Northrup9. Renaissances, Reformations, and Mental Revolutions: Intellect and Arts in the Early Modern World, Manuel Lucena-Giraldo10. Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs, Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World, Anjana SinghPart V: The Great Acceleration11. The Anthropocene Epoch: The Background to Two Transformative Centuries, David Christian12. The Modern World and Its Demons: Ideology and After in Arts, Letters and Thought, 1815-2008, Paolo Luca Bernardini13. Politics and Society in the Kaleidoscope of Change: Relationships, Institutions, and Conflicts from the Beginnings of Western Hegemony to the American Supremacy, Jeremy Black
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