The Cambridge World History 7 Volume Hardback Set in 9 Pieces
The Cambridge World History is an authoritative new overview of the dynamic field of world history. It covers the whole of human history, not simply history since the development of written records, in an expanded time frame that represents the latest thinking in world and global history. With over two hundred essays, it is the most comprehensive account yet of the human past, and it draws on a broad international pool of leading academics from a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Reflecting the increasing awareness that world history can be examined through many different approaches and at varying geographic and chronological scales, each volume offers regional, topical, and comparative essays alongside case studies that provide depth of coverage to go with the breadth of vision that is the distinguishing characteristic of world history.
- An authoritative and comprehensive overview of the human past from prehistory to the present
- Draws on leading international academics from a wide range of scholarly disciplines, representing the latest thinking in world and global history
- Each volume offers regional, topical, and comparative essays, alongside case studies, that reflect the different approaches and varying geographic and chronological scales of world history
Product details
June 2018Multiple copy pack
9781108407816
5294 pages
335 × 261 × 180 mm
8.46kg
429 b/w illus. 166 maps 48 tables
Temporarily unavailable - available from February 2025
Table of Contents
- Part I. Historiography, Method, and Themes
- Part II. The Palaeolithic and the Beginnings of Human History
- Part I. Early Cities as Arenas of Performance
- Part II. Early Cities and Information Technologies
- Part III. Early Urban Landscapes
- Part IV. Early Cities and the Distribution of Power
- Part V. Early Cities as Creations
- Part VI. Early Imperial Cities
- Part I. Global Histories
- Part II. Trans-Regional and Regional Perspectives
- Part I. Global Developments
- Part II. Eurasian Commonalities
- Part III. Growing Interactions
- Part IV. Expanding Religious Systems
- Part V. State Formations
- Part 1
- Part I. Global Matrices
- Part II. Macro-Regions.