The Cambridge World History
The Cambridge World History
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and expansion of these large-scale entities, this fourth volume of the Cambridge World History series outlines key economic, political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments that occurred across the globe in this period. Leading scholars examine critical transformations in science and technology, economic systems, attitudes towards gender and family, social hierarchies, education, art, and slavery. The second part of the volume focuses on broader processes of change within western and central Eurasia, the Mediterranean, South Asia, Africa, East Asia, Europe, the Americas and Oceania, as well as offering regional studies highlighting specific topics, from trade along the Silk Roads and across the Sahara, to Chaco culture in the US southwest, to Confucianism and the state in East Asia.
- Brings together a team of leading classicists, archaeologists and world historians to offer a distinctive new global history of the ancient world
- Explores key developments in the ancient world at three interacting scales: global, interregional, and regional
- Represents the most recent thinking about global history in its exploration of the political, social, cultural, economic and intellectual developments of the period
Product details
November 2017Paperback
9781108407717
680 pages
225 × 143 × 34 mm
1.05kg
69 b/w illus. 28 maps 3 tables
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Global Histories:
- 1. Introduction: the world from 1200 BCE to 900 CE Craig Benjamin
- 2. Global economic history Sitta von Reden
- 3. The gendering of power in the family and the state Ping Yao and Scott Wells
- 4. Slavery Peter Hunt
- 5. The axial age in world history Björn Wittrock
- 6. Developments in science and technology c.800 BCE to c.800 CE Helmuth Schneider
- 7. Discourses on gender and sexuality Ping Yao and Scott Wells
- 8. Art Robert Bagley
- 9. Pastoral nomads Tim May
- Part II. Trans-Regional and Regional Perspectives:
- 10. Western and Central Eurasia Touraj Daryaee
- 11. Regional study: Bactria – the crossroads of ancient Eurasia Jeffrey Lerner
- 12. The Mediterranean Craig Benjamin and Merry Wiesner-Hanks
- 13. Regional study: Athens in the fifth century BCE William Morison
- 14. Late antiquity in Europe c.300–900 CE Charles F. Pazdernik
- 15. East Asia Charles Holcombe
- 16. Regional study: Confucianism and the state Xinzhong Yao
- 17. Regional study: exchanges within the silk roads world system Xinru Liu
- 18. South Asia Shonaleeka Kaul
- 19. Regional study: Pataliputra Shonaleeka Kaul
- 20. The Americas Janet Brashler and Erica Begun
- 21. Regional study: Chaco culture and the US Southwest Stephen H. Lekson
- 22. Australasia and the Pacific Ian McNiven
- 23. Africa: states, empires and connections Stanley Burstein
- 24. Regional study: trans-Saharan trade Ralph Austen.
