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Edited By Graeme Bar - The Cambridge World History - 9780521192187 - V9780521192187
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The Cambridge World History

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Description for The Cambridge World History hardcover. Explores the origins and impact of agriculture across the globe, arguably the most important change in all of human history. Editor(s): Barker, Graeme; Goucher, Candice. Series: The Cambridge World History. Num Pages: 668 pages, 126 b/w illus. 9 maps 4 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 235 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1180.
The development of agriculture has often been described as the most important change in all of human history. Volume 2 of the Cambridge World History series explores the origins and impact of agriculture and agricultural communities, and also discusses issues associated with pastoralism and hunter-fisher-gatherer economies. To capture the patterns of this key change across the globe, the volume uses an expanded timeframe from 12,000 BCE–500 CE, beginning with the Neolithic and continuing into later periods. Scholars from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, historical linguistics, biology, anthropology, and history, trace common developments in the more complex social structures and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Cambridge World History
Number of Pages
668
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521192187
SKU
V9780521192187
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About Edited By Graeme Bar
Graeme Barker is Disney Professor of Archaeology, Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Professorial Fellow, St John's College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory and Prehistoric Farming in Europe (Cambridge, 1985). Candice Goucher is a Professor of History at Washington State University, Vancouver. She studied Chemistry and Visual Arts at ... Read more

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