The Cambridge World History: Volume 4, A World with States, Empires and Networks 1200 BCE–900 CE

Craig Benjamin editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:9th Nov '17

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Traces the expansion of states, ideologies, social structures and economic systems, and exchange and conquest, between 1200 BCE–900 CE.

From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Leading scholars explore the economic, political, social, cultural and intellectual developments that accompanied these developments at global, interregional and regional levels.From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and expansion of these large-scale entities, this fourth volume of the Cambridge World History series outlines key economic, political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments that occurred across the globe in this period. Leading scholars examine critical transformations in science and technology, economic systems, attitudes towards gender and family, social hierarchies, education, art, and slavery. The second part of the volume focuses on broader processes of change within western and central Eurasia, the Mediterranean, South Asia, Africa, East Asia, Europe, the Americas and Oceania, as well as offering regional studies highlighting specific topics, from trade along the Silk Roads and across the Sahara, to Chaco culture in the US southwest, to Confucianism and the state in East Asia.

ISBN: 9781108407717

Dimensions: 225mm x 143mm x 34mm

Weight: 1050g

680 pages