The Oxford illustrated history of the world /
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, [2019] |
| Description: | vii, 481 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), color maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford illustrated history Oxford illustrated histories. |
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| Format: | Map Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11777409 |
| Summary: | 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 Illustrated 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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| Physical Description: | vii, 481 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), color maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0198752903 9780198752905 |
