The Oxford Illustrated History of the World

by Felipe Fernïndez-Armesto (Editor)

Overview

Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.

The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198752912
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/25/2021
Series:	Oxford Illustrated History
Pages:	496
Sales rank:	379,493
Product dimensions:	9.73(w) x 7.46(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Wm. P. Reynolds Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His work, which has covered many fields and disciplines and has appeared in twenty-seven languages, has won him numerous awards, including the John Carter Brown Medal, a World History Association Book Prize (for Pathfinders, 2007), Spain´s national prizes for geography and foodwriting, and, most recently, the Gran Cruz de la Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio, Spain´s highest award for services to education and the arts.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I: Children of the Ice1. Humanity From the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of an Adaptive Species, Clive Gamble2. The Mind in the Ice: Art and Thought before Agriculture, Felipe Fernández-ArmestoPart II: Of Mud and Metal3. Into a Warming World, Martin Jones4. The Farmers' Empires: Climax and Crises in Agrarian States and Cities, Felipe Fernández-ArmestoPart III: The Oscillations of Empires5. Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to the Black Death, John Brooke6. Intellectual Traditions: Philosophy, Science, Religion, and the Arts, 500 BCE - 1350 CE, David Northrup7. Growth: Social and Political Organizations, 1000 BC-AD 1350, Ian MorrisPart IV: The Climatic Reversal8. A Converging World: Economic and Ecological Encounters, 1350-1815, David Northrup9. Renaissances, Reformations, and Mental Revolutions: Intellect and Arts in the Early Modern World, Manuel Lucena-Giraldo10. Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs, Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World, Anjana SinghPart V: The Great Acceleration11. The Anthropocene Epoch: The Background to Two Transformative Centuries, David Christian12. The Modern World and Its Demons: Ideology and After in Arts, Letters and Thought, 1815-2008, Paolo Luca Bernardini13. Politics and Society in the Kaleidoscope of Change: Relationships, Institutions, and Conflicts from the Beginnings of Western Hegemony to the American Supremacy, Jeremy BlackEpilogueFurther ReadingIndex

Editorial Reviews

"When a renowned academic publisher such as Oxford University Press gathers well-known (mainly British and American) historians to write an illustrated history of the whole world, one can expect a cross between the highest condition, light and metaphorical language and opulent visualization - and this is exactly what this volume delivers." — Matthias Middell, Comparativ

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