World, The: A History

Name: World, The: A History
Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

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Pearson Education | e druk, 2013

ISBN13: 9781292027722

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The World interweaves two stories—of our interactions with nature and 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 of how human cultures have become mutually influential and yet mutually differentiating. Both stories have been going on for thousands of years. We do not know whether they will end in triumph or disaster.

There is no prospect of covering all of world history in one book. Rather, the fabric of this book is woven from selected strands. Readers will see these at every turn, twisted together into yarn, stretched into stories. Human-focused historical ecology—the environmental theme—will drive readers back, again and again, to the same concepts: sustenance, shelter, disease, energy, technology, art. (The last is a vital category for historians, not only because it is part of our interface with the rest of the world, but also because it forms a record of how we see reality and of how the way we see it changes.) In the global story of human interactions—the cultural theme—we return constantly to the ways people make contact with each another: migration, trade, war, imperialism, pilgrimage, gift exchange, diplomacy, travel—and to their social frameworks: the economic and political arenas, the human groups and groupings, the states and civilizations, the sexes and generations, the classes and clusters of identity.

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ISBN13:9781292027722

Taal:Engels

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Uitgever:Pearson Education

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Volume 1: Chapters 1-15 Volume 2: Chapters 13-30 Volume A: Chapters 1-10 Volume B: Chapters 11-20 Volume C: Chapters 20-30     In Perspective: Cains and Abels   PART 6: the crucible: the eurasian crises of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries     Chapter 13 The World the Mongols Made   The Mongols: Reshaping Eurasia <ul> <li>Genghis Khan </li> <li>The Mongol Steppe</li> </ul> The Mongol World Beyond the Steppes: The Silk Roads, China, Persia, and Russia <ul> <li>China </li> <li>Persia </li> <li>Russia</li> </ul> The Limits of Conquest: Mamluk Egypt and Muslim India <ul> <li>Mamluk Egypt </li> <li>Muslim India: The Delhi Sultanate</li> </ul> Europe   In Perspective: The Uniqueness of the Mongols     Chapter 14 The Revenge of Nature:  Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century   Climate Change   The Coming of the Age of Plague <ul> <li>The Course and Impact of Plague </li> <li>Medicine and Morals </li> <li>The Jews </li> <li>Distribution of Wealth </li> <li>Peasant Millenarianism</li> </ul> The Limits of Disaster: Beyond the Plague Zone <ul> <li>India </li> <li>Southeast Asia </li> <li>Japan </li> <li>Mali</li> </ul> The Pacific: Societies of Isolation <ul> <li>Easter Island </li> <li>New Zealand </li> <li>Ozette </li> <li>Chan Chan</li> </ul> In Perspective: The Aftershock   Chapter 15 Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries   Fragile Empires in Africa <ul> <li>East Africa </li> <li>West Africa</li> </ul> Ecological Imperialism in the Americas <ul> <li>The Inca Empire </li> <li>The Aztec Empire</li> </ul> New Eurasian Empires <ul> <li>The Russia Empire </li> <li>Timurids and the Ottoman Empire</li> </ul> The Limitations of Chinese Imperialism   The Beginnings of Oceanic Imperialism   The European Outlook: Problems and Promise   In Perspective: Beyond Empires   Part 7: Convergence and Divergence to ca. 1700   Chapter 16 Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries   Maritime Empires: Portugal, Japan, and the Dutch <ul> <li>The Portuguese Example </li> <li>Asian Examples </li> <li>The Dutch Connection</li> </ul> Land Empires: Russia, China, Mughal India, and the Ottomans <ul> <li>China </li> <li>The Mughal Example in India </li> <li>The Ottomans</li> </ul> New Land Empires in the Americas <ul> <li>Making the New Empires Work</li> </ul> In Perspective: The Global Balance of Trade   Chapter 17 The Ecological Revolution of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries   The Ecological Exchange: Plants and Animals <ul> <li>Maize, Sweet Potatoes, and Potatoes </li> <li>Weeds, Grasses, and Livestock </li> <li>Cane Sugar </li> <li>Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate </li> <li>Patterns of Ecological Exchange</li> </ul> The Microbial Exchange <ul> <li>Demographic Collapse in the New World </li> <li>Plague and New Diseases in Eurasia</li> </ul> Labor: Human Transplantations   Wild Frontiers: Encroaching Settlement <ul> <li>Northern and Central Asia: The Waning of Steppeland Imperialism </li> <li>Pastoral Imperialism in Af</li> </ul>

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