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Oxford The Oxford Illustrated History of the World 2019 Edition by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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, cant 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 ofstates 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. Table of contents : - IntroductionPart I: Children of the Ice 1. 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 Fernandez-ArmestoPart II: Of Mud and Metal 3. Into a Warming World, Martin Jones4. The Farmers' Empires: Climax and Crises in Agrarian States and Cities, Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoPart III: The Oscillations of Empires 5. Punctured Rupture: Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to 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 Reversal 8. Re-Convergence in a Smaller 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 Acceleration 11. 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, Behaviour, Institutions, Conflicts from the Beginnings of Western Hegemony to the American Supremacy, Jeremy BlackEpilogueFurther ReadingIndex