John Coatsworth

Global Connections: Volume 1, To 1500 (eBook, PDF)

Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316307960
• Artikelnr.: 52966695

Autorenporträt

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 México, 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.