The Cambridge World History (Volume 1)
Edited By David Chri
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Description for The Cambridge World History (Volume 1)
hardcover. Volume introducing key frames of analysis and themes that shaped world history, and surveying the earliest phases of human history. Editor(s): Christian, David; Hughes-Warrington, Marnie. Series: The Cambridge World History. Num Pages: 516 pages, 30 b/w illus. 19 maps 2 tables. BIC Classification: 3B; HBG; HBLA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 948.
Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part I leading scholars outline the approaches, methods, and themes that have shaped and defined world history scholarship across the world and right up to the present day. Chapters examine the historiographical development of the field globally, periodisation, divergence and convergence, belief and knowledge, technology and innovation, family, gender, anthropology, migration, and fire. Part II surveys the vast Palaeolithic era, which laid the foundations for human history, concentrating on the most ... Read more
Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part I leading scholars outline the approaches, methods, and themes that have shaped and defined world history scholarship across the world and right up to the present day. Chapters examine the historiographical development of the field globally, periodisation, divergence and convergence, belief and knowledge, technology and innovation, family, gender, anthropology, migration, and fire. Part II surveys the vast Palaeolithic era, which laid the foundations for human history, concentrating on the most ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Cambridge World History
Number of Pages
516
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521763332
SKU
V9780521763332
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About Edited By David Chri
David Christian is by training a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. He taught Russian and Soviet History at Macquarie University in Sydney, and conducted research on the diets of the nineteenth-century Russian peasantry and in particular on the role of vodka in Russian society and fiscal systems. In 1989 he began teaching a history course surveying the history ... Read more
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