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Histories you can trust.
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 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.
Contents
Part I: Children of the Ice
1: Clive Gamble: Humanity From the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of an Adaptive Species
2: Felipe Fernández-Armesto: The Mind in the Ice: Art and Thought before Agriculture
Part II: Of Mud and Metal
3: Martin Jones: Into a Warming World
4: Felipe Fernández-Armesto: The Farmers' Empires: Climax and Crises in Agrarian States and Cities
Part III: The Oscillations of Empires
5: John Brooke: Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to the Black Death
6: David Northrup: Intellectual Traditions: Philosophy, Science, Religion, and the Arts, 500 BCE - 1350 CE
7: Ian Morris: Growth: Social and Political Organizations, 1000 BC-AD 1350
Part IV: The Climatic Reversal
8: David Northrup: A Converging World: Economic and Ecological Encounters, 1350-1815
9: Manuel Lucena-Giraldo: Renaissances, Reformations, and Mental Revolutions: Intellect and Arts in the Early Modern World
10: Anjana Singh: Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs, Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World
Part V: The Great Acceleration
11: David Christian: The Anthropocene Epoch: The Background to Two Transformative Centuries
12: Paolo Luca Bernardini: The Modern World and Its Demons: Ideology and After in Arts, Letters and Thought, 1815-2008
13: Jeremy Black: Politics and Society in the Kaleidoscope of Change: Relationships, Institutions, and Conflicts from the Beginnings of Western Hegemony to the American Supremacy
