The Cambridge World History
Published on 16. April 2015
Book
Hardback
732 pages
978-1-107-01572-2 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
3 Tables, black and white; 28 Maps; 69 Halftones, unspecified; 69 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
1141 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-01572-2 (9781107015722)
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Person
Craig Benjamin is an Associate Professor of History at Frederik J. Meijer Honors College, Grand Valley State University, Michigan (GVSU). 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 President (2014/15) of the World History Association.
Content
Part I. Global Histories: 1. Introduction: the world from 1200 BCE to 900 CE Craig Benjamin; 2. Global economic history Sitta von Reden; 3. The gendering of power in the family and the state Ping Yao and Scott Wells; 4. Slavery Peter Hunt; 5. The axial age in world history Bjoern Wittrock; 6. Developments in science and technology c.800 BCE to c.800 CE Helmuth Schneider; 7. Discourses on gender and sexuality Ping Yao and Scott Wells; 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 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 Janet Brashler and Erica Begun; 21. Regional study: Chaco culture and the US Southwest Stephen H. Lekson; 22. Australasia and the Pacific Ian McNiven; 23. Africa: states, empires and connections Stanley Burstein; 24. Regional study: trans-Saharan trade Ralph Austen.