The Oxford Handbook of World History

Name: The Oxford Handbook of World History
Brand: OUP Oxford
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By Bentley, Jerry H.

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The Oxford Handbook of World History presents thirty-three essays by leading historians in their respective fields. The chapters address the most important issues explored by contemporary world historians. These broadly fall into four categories: conceptions of the global past, themes in world history, processes of world history, regions in world history.

Those chapters on conceptions deal with issues of space and time as treated in the field of world history as well as questions of method, epistemology, the historiography of the area, and globalization as viewed from historical perspective.

Themes present in the book include the natural environment, agriculture, pastoral nomadism, science, technology, state formation, gender, and religion. Chapters dealing with large-scale processes review current thinking on some of the most influential developments of the global past, including mass migrations, cross-cultural trade, biological diffusions, imperial expansion, industrialization, and cultural and religious exchanges. And finally, a set of chapters explores the distinctive historical development within the world's major regions, while also situating individual regions in the larger global context.

Taken together, the essays in this volume provide the best guide to current thinking in one of the most dynamic fields of historical scholarship.

Product details

Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 626
Release Date:: 2011-05-26
Publication Date:: 2011-05-01
Publisher:: OUP Oxford
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0199235813
ISBN13:: 9780199235810
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 1243 g
Height:: 175 cm
Width:: 250 cm
Thickness:: 38 cm

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