Global Connections: Volume 1, To 1500 (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
437
Utgivningsdatum
2015-03-16
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Medarbetare
Cole, Juan / Hanagan, Michael P. / Perdue, Peter C. / Tilly, Charles / Tilly, Louise
Illustrationer
45 b/w illus.
Volymtitel
Volume 1 To 1500
Dimensioner
277 x 213 x 23 mm
Vikt
1203 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9780521145183

Global Connections: Volume 1, To 1500

Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History

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The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 1 takes us from the origin of hominids to ancient civilizations, the rise of empires, and the Middle Ages. The book pays particular attention to the ways in which ordinary people lived through the great changes of their times, and how everyday experience connects to great political events and the commercial exchanges of an interconnected world. With 65 maps, 45 illustrations, timelines, boxes, and primary source extracts, the book moves students easily from particular historical incidents to broader perspectives, enabling them to use historical material and social science methodologies to analyze the events of the past, present and future.
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'Moving beyond the traditional world history narratives focused on empires, countries, or regions, this unique textbook focuses instead on the connections and interactions of empires, city-states, and central states, allowing for a richer and coherent description of the impact of globalization and deglobalization on ordinary people's lives. This new and more comprehensive approach makes this an ideal textbook for many undergraduate courses in sociology, history, and social studies.' Carmenza Gallo, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

'In a time when historical knowledge is increasingly fragmented, Global Connections stands out for its broad historical and geographic sweep. It examines Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East from ancient times to the present, with special attention given to the three centuries from 1700 to 2000. But this is not your standard world history. Global Connections not only avoids the Eurocentrism of previous grand historical narratives, but tells us how ordinary people lived, worked, and interacted with the kings and potentates who are the focus of traditional history. By combining social history or 'history from below' with a sophisticated understanding of states and economic elites, Global Connections is simply the best guide to world history currently available.' Jeff Goodwin, New York University

'Global Connections is a tour de force of world history. Some of the most outstanding scholars and teachers of our time bring the history of everyday life alive on a reflective journey into our common past and potential future. By interweaving structural analysis with storytelling, this two-volume book is an indispensable text for shaping the minds of future generations of students everywhere.' Behrooz Moazami, Patrick G. O'Keefe Distinguished Professor of History and Director, Middle East Peace Studies, Loyola University New Orleans

'This is the textbook that college instructors have been waiting for: a highly readable narrative of the world's past shaped by a clear and compelling thesis about the processes of globalization. This unique collaboration between renowned historians of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America and one of the world's leading social scientists furnishes students with a rich and detailed account of humanity's social development and the conceptual tools necessary to understand the world around them.' Ariel Salzmann, Queen's University, Ontario

'I am deeply impressed by these two magisterial volumes. Retrieving the experiences of ordinary people and highlighting the many interactions between different parts of the globe, they offer us a new perspective on humankind's past. After this, world history will never be the same. These are truly marvelous books!' Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History

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John Coatsworth is Professor of History and Provost of Columbia University and former Dean of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He is author, editor or co-editor of nine books on Latin American economic and international history, including The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America (2006) and Living Standards in Latin American History (2010). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative and Latin American history at Columbia since 2006. He previously served at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. Other academic posts have included visiting professorships at El Colegio de Mxico, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the National University of Buenos Aires, the Instituto Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, and the Instituto Ortega y Gassett in Madrid. He is past president of the American Historical Association, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. Juan Cole received his doctorate in Islamic Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1984. Since then, he has taught history at the University of Michigan. His monographs have treated the Shiite clergy in South Asia, anti-colonial revolution in Egypt, millenarianism in modern Iran, transnational Shiite thought and movements, Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt, and the US engagement with the Muslim world. After September 11, he emerged as a public intellectual, with frequent appearances on television and radio and popular columns at Salon and Truthdig. His weblog, Informed Comment, receives a wide readership from those interested in the Western relationship to the Muslim world. Michael Hanagan has taught at Vanderbilt and Columbia Universities and has long experience in teaching undergraduate history. He currently teaches courses in world history, global history and international studies at Vassar College. He is the author of several books, including The Logic of Solidarity and Nascent Proletarians. He has edited a number of collections. Most recently he edited (with Chris Tilly) Contention and Trust in Cities and States. He is also finishing a manuscript with Miriam Cohen on the comparative history of the welfare state in England, France and the United States between 1870 and 1950. He served as senior editor for the journal International Labor and Working-Class History for four years, has been on the Consulting Board of Theory and Society for the last seven. He is currently a co-editor of the series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics. He is currently working on an essay on world history for the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. Peter C. Perdue has over thirty years of experience teaching undergraduates about Asian history, at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University. He has also lectured to general audiences in Europe, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan and many places in the USA. He has taught surveys of ...

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Introduction; Part I. 5000-600 BCE: The Rise of Cities, States and Pastoralism: 1. From human origins to the farming transformation; 2. Cities and states; 3. People on the move; Part II. 600 BCE-600 CE: A World of Regions: 4. Africa and the Americas: making history in challenging environments; 5. East, Central and South Asia: the religious foundations of empires; 6. The Ancient Mediterranean; Part III. 600-900 CE: States, Empires, and Religions: 7. The Middle East and Europe; 8. The heyday of the Silk Road; 9. The rise and fall of states in the Americas and Africa, 600-1200 CE; Part IV. 900-1200 CE: Fragmentation, Feudalism, and Urbanization: 10. Europe and the Muslim World; 11. Paradoxes of plenty in Song China, Byzantium, and Kievan Russia; Part V. 1200-1500 CE: Conquest and Commerce: 12. The Americas and Africa; 13. The Mongol Conquests and their legacies; 14. Europe and the world.