This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups, social and gender hierarchies, sexuality, race and ethnicity, labor, religion, consumption, and material culture. She examines how these structures and activities changed over time through local processes and interactions with other cultures, highlighting key developments that defined particular eras such as the growth of cities or the creation of a global trading network. Incorporating foragers, farmers and factory workers along with shamans, scribes and secretaries, the book widens and lengthens human history. It makes comparisons and generalizations, but also notes diversities and particularities, as it examines the social and cultural matters that are at the heart of big questions in world history today.
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Introduction; 1. Foraging and farming families (to 3000 BCE); 2. Cities and classical societies (3000 BCE–500 CE); 3. Expanding networks of interaction, 500 CE–1500 CE; 4. A new world of connections, 1500 CE–1800 CE; 5. Industrialization, imperialism, and inequality, 1800–2015; Index.
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'Few authors have the courage to write a short history of the long human career, and fewer still have the skill to pull it off. Merry Wiesner-Hanks succeeds admirably in fashioning an intelligible story out of the seeming chaos of history. Her book is unique among world histories in the extent of its attention to gender, marriage, family, inequality and other social themes.' John McNeill, author of The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
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A concise history of the world from the Paleolithic to the present, telling the story of humans as producers and reproducers.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781107028371
Publisert
2015-09-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
760 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
142 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
405
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