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The World A History, Penguin Academic Edition, Combined Volume

by: Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

The World A History, Penguin Academic Edition, Combined Volume

by: Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

ISBN 13:
9780205759309
ISBN 10:
0205759300
Edition: Combined
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 12/16/2010
Publisher: Pearson

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Summary

The World: A History#xA0;interweaves two stories: the story#xA0;of our interactions with nature and the story of our interactions with each other. The environment-centered story is about humans distancing themselves from the rest of nature and searching for a relationship that strikes a balance between constructive and destructive exploitation. The culture-centered story is about how human cultures have become mutually influential and yet mutually differentiating. Both stories have been going on for thousands of years. #xA0;#xA0;#xA0;#xA0; Conveniently portable and highly readable, with engaging typefaces and interior designs.#xA0;

Author Biography

Felipe Fernández-Armesto holds the William P. Reynolds Chair of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford, where he spent most of his teaching career, before taking up the Chair of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary College, University of London, in 2000, and the Prince of Asturias Chair at Tufts University (2005—2009).He is on the editorial boards of the History of Cartography for the University of Chicago Press, Studies in Overseas History (Leiden University), Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journeys, and Journal of Global History. Recent awards include the World History Association Book Prize (2007), Spain’s Premio Nacional de Gastronomía(2005, for his work on the history of food), and the PremioNacional de Investigación (Sociedad Geográfica Española,2004). He has had many distinguished visiting appointments, including a Fellowship of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and aUnion Pacific Visiting Professorship at the University of Minnesota. He won the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum in 1995 and the John Carter Brown Medal in 1999 and has honorary doctorates from La Trobe University and the Universidad de los Andes. He has served on the Council of the Hakluyt Society, on the Committee of English PEN, and as Chairman of the PEN Literary Foundation.

His work in journalism includes regular columns in the British and Spanish press, and, among his many contributions

to broadcasting, he is the longest-serving presenter of BBC radio’s flagship current affairs program, Analysis. He has

been short-listed for the most valuable literary prize in the United Kingdom.

Brief Contents

Contents

Maps

Special Features

Getting the Most Out of the Maps in The World

About Felipe Fernández-Armesto

From the Author to the Reader

Introducing The World

Acknowledgments

A Note on Dates and Spelling

Part 1: Foragers and Farmers, to 5000 B.C.E.

Chapter 1: Out of the Ice: Peopling the Earth

Chapter 2: Out of the Mud: Farming and Herding after the Ice Age

Part 2: Farmers and Builders, 5000 to 500 B.C.E.

Chapter 3: The Great River Valleys: Accelerating Change and Developing States

Chapter 4: A Succession of Civilizations: Ambition and Instability

Chapter 5: Rebuilding the World: Recoveries, New Initiatives, and Their Limits

Part 3: The Axial Age, from 500 B.C.E. to 100 C.E.

Chapter 6: The Great Schools

Chapter 7: The Great Empires

Part 4: Fitful Transitions, from the Third Century to the Tenth Century

Chapter 8: Postimperial Worlds: Problems of Empires in Eurasia and Africa, ca. 200 C.E. to ca. 700 C.E.

Chapter 9: The Rise of World Religions: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism

Chapter 10: Remaking the World: Innovation and Renewal on Environmental Frontiers in the Late First Millennium

Part 5: Contacts and Conflicts, 1000 C.E. to 1200 C.E.

Chapter 11: Contending with Isolation: ca. 1000–1200

Chapter 12: The Nomadic Frontiers: The Islamic World, Byzantium, and China ca. 1000–1200

Part 6: The Crucible: The Eurasian Crises of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Chapter 13: The World the Mongols Made

Chapter 14: The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century

Chapter 15: Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Part 7: Convergence and Divergence, to ca. 1700

Chapter 16: Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Chapter 17: The Ecological Revolution of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Chapter 18: Mental Revolutions: Religion and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Chapter 19: States and Societies: Political and Social Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Part 8: Global Enlightenments, 1700–1800

Chapter 20: Driven by Growth: The Global Economy in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 21: The Age of Global Interaction: Expansion and Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Empires

Chapter 22:The Exchange of Enlightenments: Eighteenth-Century Thought

Part 9: The Frustrations of Progress, to ca. 1900

Chapter 23: Replacing Muscle: The Energy Revolutions

Chapter 24: The Social Mold: Work and Society in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 25: Western Dominance in the Nineteenth Century: The Westward Shift of Power and the Rise of Global Empires

Chapter 26: The Changing State: Political Developments in the Nineteenth Century

Part 10: Chaos and Complexity: The World in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 27: The Twentieth-Century Mind: Western Science and the World

Chapter 28: World Order and Disorder: Global Politics in the Twentieth

Chapter 29: The Pursuit of Utopia: Civil Society in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 30: The Embattled Biosphere: The Twentieth-Century Environment

Glossary

Credits

Notes

Index

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