The Oxford illustrated history of the world /

The Oxford illustrated history of the world /

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Edition:First edition.
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.
Subject:
World history -- Pictorial works.
World history.
Pictorial works.
Format: Map Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11777409
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Other authors / contributors:Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, editor.
ISBN:0198752903
9780198752905
Summary: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.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Maps
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Children of the Ice
  • The Peopling of the World and the Beginnings of Cultural Divergence, c. 200,000 to c. 12,000 years ago
  • 1. Humanity from the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of an Adaptive Species
  • 2. The Mind in the Ice: Art and Thought before Agriculture
  • Part 2. Of Mud and Metal
  • Divergent Cultures from the Emergence of Agriculture to the 'Crisis of the Bronze Age', C. 10,000 BCE-C. 1,000 bce
  • 3. Into a Warming World
  • 4. The Farmers' Empires: Climax and Crises in Agrarian States and Cities
  • Part 3. The Oscillations Of Empires
  • From the 'Dark Age' of the Early First Millennium BCE to the Mid-Fourteenth Century CE
  • 5. Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to the Black Death
  • 6. Intellectual Traditions: Philosophy, Science, Religion, and the Arts, 500 BCE-1350 CE
  • 7. Growth: Social and Political Organizations, 1000 BCE-1350 CE
  • Part 4. The Climatic Reversal
  • Expansion and Innovation amid Plague and Cold from the Mid-Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries CE
  • 8. A Converging World: Economic and Ecological Encounters, 1350-1815
  • 9. Renaissances, Reformations, and Mental Revolutions: Intellect and Arts in the Early Modern World
  • 10. Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs, Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World
  • Part 5. The Great Acceleration
  • Accelerating Change in a Warming World, C. 1815-C. 2008
  • 11. The Anthropocene Epoch: The Background to Two Transformative Centuries
  • 12. The Modern World and its Demons: Ideology and After in Arts, Letters, and Thought, 1815-2008
  • 13. Politics and Society in the Kaleidoscope of Change: Relationships, Institutions, and Conflicts from the Beginnings of Western Hegemony to American Supremacy
  • Epilogue
  • Further Reading
  • Picture Acknowledgements
  • Index
Gift of the Karl Joachim Weintraub Memorial Fund bookplate

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