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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ISBN
9781316413128
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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