The Cambridge World History: Volume 4

Cambridge University Press, 4/16/2015
EAN 9781107015722, ISBN10: 1107015723

Hardcover, 732 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 3.5 cm
Language: English

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.

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 Björn 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.