The Cambridge World History
7 Volume Hardback Set in 9 Pieces

General Editor

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She began her scholarly career as a historian of early modern Europe, with a particular focus on women and gender, and remains a leader in that field, serving as the president of three scholarly societies and since 1996 as the Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal. Since 2000 she has also moved into world and global history, and now serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Global History. She is the author or editor of twenty books and many articles that have appeared in English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean. These include Early Modern Europe 1450–1789, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 2013), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, 3rd edition (Cambridge, 2008), Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice, 2nd edition (2010) and Gender in History: Global Perspectives, 2nd edition (2010). Her research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, among others.

Contributors

David Christian, Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Dominic Sachsenmaier, Michael Lang, David Northrup, Luke Clossey, Daniel R. Headrick, Johan Goudsblom, Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Jack Goody, Pat Manning, Felipe Fernandez-Arnesto, Christopher Ehret, John Hoffecker, Robin Dennell, Peter Hiscock, Nicole M. Waguespack, Graeme Barker, Candice Goucher, Maria Pala, Pedro Soares, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Martin B. Richards, Charlotte Roberts, Amy Bogaard, Alan Outram, Daphne Gallagher, Rod McIntosh, Alan Simmon, Gary Rollefson, Eleanor Kingwell-Banham, Cameron A. Petrie, Dorian Q. Fuller, Xinyi Liu, Martin Jones, Zhijun Zhao, Guoxiang Liu, Simon Kaner, Kenichi Yano, Kenichi Okada, Huw Barton, Tim Denham, Paul Lane, Kevin MacDonald, Deborah M. Pearsall, Tom D. Dillehay, Alastair Whittle, Peter Bogucki, Ryszard Grygiel, Norman Yoffee, Nicola Terrenato, John Baines, Stephen Houston, Thomas G. Garrison, Miriam Stark, Hans Nissen, Wang Haicheng, Danny Law, Gary Urton, John W. Janusek, Geoff Emberling, Sarah C. Clayton, Carla M. Sinopoli, Ian Morris, Alex R. Knodell, Roderick J. McIntosh, Françoise Micheau, Ann E. Killebrew, Timothy R. Pauketat, Susan M. Alt, Jeffery D. Kruchten, Adelheid Otto, Gerardo Gutiérrez, Craig Benjamin, Sitta von Reden, Ping Yao, Scott Wells, Peter Hunt, Björn Wittrock, Helmuth Schneider, Robert Bagley, Tim May, Touraj Daryaee, Jeffrey Lerner, William Morison, Charles F. Pazdernik, Charles Holcombe, Xinzhong Yao, Xinru Liu, Shonaleeka Kaul, Janet Brashler, Erica Begun, Stephen H. Lekson, Ian McNiven, Stanley Burstein, Ralph Austen, Benjamin Z. Kedar, Joachim Radkau, Susan Stuard, Susan Reynolds, Linda Walton, Clifford Rogers, Patrick Geary, Daud Ali, Paul S. Atkins, Michael Cooperson, Rita Costa Gomes, Paul Dutton, Gert Melville, Claudia Rapp, Karl-Heinz Spieß, Stephen West, Pauline Yu, Richard Smith, Michel Balard, Himanshu Ray, Dagmar Schaefer, Marcus Popplow, Charles Burnett, Anatoly Khazanov, Michael Cook, Miri Rubin, Tansen Sen, Johann Arnason, Richard von Glahn, Michal Biran, Jean-Claude Cheynet, David Conrad, Michael E. Smith, Sabine MacCormack, Diego Holstein, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Robert Marks, James Webb, Francesca Bray, Peter Burke, Thomas T. Allsen, Jos Gommans, Matthew Restall, Ray A. Kea, Jorge Flores, Laura Hostetler, Giancarlo Casale, Morris Rossabi, Michael Laffan, Alan Karras, Filippo de Vivo, Jack Goldstone, Dirk Hoerder, Jeremy Black, John E. Wills, Jr, Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow, Noble David Cook, John Thornton, Francesca Trivellato, Charles H. Parker, Dennis O. Flynn, James D. Tracy, Trevor Burnard, R. Bin Wong, Kaoru Sugihara, Guy Stroumsa, Ronnie Hsia, Nile Greene, Eugenio Menegon, Gina Cogan, Carlo Ginzburg, Kenneth Pomeranz, John McNeill, Giovanni Federico, Paul Josephson, Vaclav Smil, Massimo Livi-Bacci, Alison Bashford, Mark Harrison, Erez Manela, Tony Arend, Aviel Roshwald, Danielle Kinsey, Prasenjit Duara, Mark Levene, Robert Strayer, John Voll, Mark Selden, Julie Charlip, Frederick Cooper, Ian Tyrrell, Lionel Frost, Lynn Hollen Lees, Peter Stearns, Julie Peakman, Alessandro Stanziani, Antonia Finnane, Peter van der Veer, James E. McClellan, III, Timothy D. Taylor, Susan Brownell, Lalitha Gopalan, Jaime E. Rodríguez O., Richard Overy, Daniel Sargent, Carole Fink, Nicole Rebec, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Richard Tucker, William B. McAllister, Bernard Rieger, Thomas W. Zeiler

Awards

• Honourable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference in the Humanities and Social Sciences