The Cambridge World History 7 Volume Hardback Set in 9 Pieces

Cambridge University Press, 4/23/2015
EAN 9781107107724, ISBN10: 1107107725

Hardcover, 5297 pages, 31.1 x 25.4 x 17.1 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The Cambridge World History is an authoritative new overview of the dynamic field of world history. It covers the whole of human history, not simply history since the development of written records, in an expanded time frame that represents the latest thinking in world and global history. With over two hundred essays, it is the most comprehensive account yet of the human past, and it draws on a broad international pool of leading academics from a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Reflecting the increasing awareness that world history can be examined through many different approaches and at varying geographic and chronological scales, each volume offers regional, topical, and comparative essays alongside case studies that provide depth of coverage to go with the breadth of vision that is the distinguishing characteristic of world history.

Part I. Historiography, Method, and Themes
Part II. The Palaeolithic and the Beginnings of Human History
Part I. Early Cities as Arenas of Performance
Part II. Early Cities and Information Technologies
Part III. Early Urban Landscapes
Part IV. Early Cities and the Distribution of Power
Part V. Early Cities as Creations
Part VI. Early Imperial Cities
Part I. Global Histories
Part II. Trans-Regional and Regional Perspectives
Part I. Global Developments
Part II. Eurasian Commonalities
Part III. Growing Interactions
Part IV. Expanding Religious Systems
Part V. State Formations
Part 1
Part I. Global Matrices
Part II. Macro-Regions.