The Cambridge World History: Volume 5, Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500CE–1500CE
Merry E Wiesner-Hanks editor Benjamin Z Kedar editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:9th Nov '17
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Global history of cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of states, religions, knowledge, and economic systems, between 500 and 1500 CE.
Volume focusing on world history from 500 to 1500 CE, presenting essays that highlight cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of states, religions, knowledge, and economic systems. Global chapters focus on core issues such as social hierarchies, family, and warfare, along with insightful regional analyses.Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world, including human relations with nature, gender and family, social hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine maritime and land-based networks of long-distance trade and migration in agricultural and nomadic societies, and the transmission and exchange of cultural forms, scientific knowledge, technologies, and text-based religious systems that accompanied these. The final section surveys the development of centralized regional states and empires in both the eastern and western hemispheres. Together these essays by an international team of leading authors show how processes furthering cultural, commercial, and political integration within and between various regions of the world made this millennium a 'proto-global' era.
'… the volumes in this series are tremendous resources. College professors or instructors should feel comfortable assigning undergraduate students essays from these volumes as reading materials. A huge amount of work has gone into producing these accurate and informative essays.' Graham Squires, World History Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9781108407724
Dimensions: 225mm x 145mm x 34mm
Weight: 1100g
720 pages