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A concise history of the world / Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge concise histories | Cambridge concise historiesPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.Description: xii, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781107028371
  • 9781107694538
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909 23 WIE
Contents:
Foraging and farming families (to 3000 BCE) -- . Cities and classical societies (3000 BCE-500 CE) -- . Expanding networks of interaction, 500 CE-1500 CE -- . A new world of connections, 1500 CE-1800 CE -- . Industrialization, imperialism, and inequality, 1800 CE-2015 CE .
Summary: This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups, social and gender hierarchies, sexuality, race and ethnicity, labor, religion, consumption, and material culture. She examines how these structures and activities changed over time through local processes and interactions with other cultures, highlighting key developments that defined particular eras such as the growth of cities or the creation of a global trading network. Incorporating foragers, farmers and factory workers along with shamans, scribes and secretaries, the book widens and lengthens human history. It makes comparisons and generalizations, but also notes diversities and particularities, as it examines the social and cultural matters that are at the heart of big questions in world history today
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Foraging and farming families (to 3000 BCE) --
. Cities and classical societies (3000 BCE-500 CE) --

. Expanding networks of interaction, 500 CE-1500 CE --


. A new world of connections, 1500 CE-1800 CE --


. Industrialization, imperialism, and inequality, 1800 CE-2015 CE


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This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups, social and gender hierarchies, sexuality, race and ethnicity, labor, religion, consumption, and material culture. She examines how these structures and activities changed over time through local processes and interactions with other cultures, highlighting key developments that defined particular eras such as the growth of cities or the creation of a global trading network. Incorporating foragers, farmers and factory workers along with shamans, scribes and secretaries, the book widens and lengthens human history. It makes comparisons and generalizations, but also notes diversities and particularities, as it examines the social and cultural matters that are at the heart of big questions in world history today

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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