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1 Online-Ressource (528 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780192884046
Series Statement:
The Oxford History Of... Series
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The Oxford History of the World is the story of humanity itself, from earliest times to the present day, and the changes--good and bad--which have shaped our world
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Cover -- The Oxford History of the World -- Copyright -- Praise for The Oxford History of the World -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- PART 1: Children of the Ice: The Peopling of the World and the Beginnings of Cultural Divergence, c. 200,000 to c. 12,000 years ago -- 1: Humanity from the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of an Adaptive Species -- Over the horizon -- Recognizing humans -- Ice ages and humans -- Mobility and the original social network -- Changes forced by variations in the Earth's orbit -- Ocean temperatures and continental shelves -- Continents and regions: tectonics and deserts -- Push-pull factors and species factories -- Versatile humans -- Settling the Earth -- What made global expansion possible? -- Identifying the settlers -- Terra 2 Africa 200,000-50,000 years ago -- Terra 3 Arriving in Sahul 50,000 years ago -- Terra 3 Negotiating Siberia and the Americas -- Terra 3 Europe -- Conclusion -- 2: The Mind in the Ice: Art and Thought before Agriculture -- The birth of creativity? -- Food for thought -- Brain power -- Life imitating art -- Art as narrative -- The spirit world -- Talking to the spirits -- Art as understanding -- The feminine in Ice Age art -- Magic -- Art and the afterlife -- Ice Age art as comment on society and values -- Feasts and power -- Leadership figures -- THE SHAMAN -- HEREDITARY LEADERSHIP -- Time to think -- Environmental influence on human change -- PART 2: Of Mud and Metal: Divergent Cultures from the Emergence of Agriculture to the 'Crisis of the Bronze Age', c. 10,000 BCE-c. 1,000 BCE -- 3: Into a Warming World -- Knowing nature -- Fauna -- Flora -- Classifying food in nature -- Nature as nurture -- Taming life -- Domesticated crops -- The 'Fertile Crescent' -- House, hearth, and kiln -- Energy and fire -- Regulating water and soil -- Stepped terracing -- Flooding
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Wells -- Soil -- Ploughing -- Putting down roots -- Two episodes of prehistoric agriculture -- Home and the wanderer -- Food globalization and the trans-Eurasian exchange -- Nature reframed -- Conclusion -- 4: The Farmers' Empires: Climax and Crises in Agrarian States and Cities -- The spread and growth of dense settlements and large states -- The Americas -- Eurasia -- Crises of the late second millennium BCE -- PART 3: The Oscillations of Empires: From the 'Dark Age' of the Early First Millennium BCE to the Mid-Fourteenth Century CE -- 5: Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to the Black Death -- Climatic context from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age: the Hallstatt solar minimum, 1200-700 BCE -- Epidemics and the Eurasian steppes -- Into the Iron Age and Steel Age -- Commerce and empire -- Rotary mechanics -- Epidemics and climate reversal: into the 'Dark Ages' -- Transformation, contest, and crisis in the Dark Ages, 400-950 CE -- Warming global climate: into the Middle Ages, 950-1260 CE -- Into the Little Ice Age, and the Black Death, 1260-1350: the Hallstatt solar minimum returns -- 6: Intellectual Traditions: Philosophy, Science, Religion, and the Arts, 500 BCE-1350 CE -- An 'Axial Age'? -- The foundations of science -- World religions: Christianity and Islam -- Religious conversion strategies -- Intellectual renaissances -- Conclusion -- 7: Growth: Social and Political Organizations, 1000 BCE-1350 CE -- The story -- Bigger, wider, stronger, deeper -- Homo superans -- The power of place -- The world in 1000 BCE -- The world in 175 CE -- The world in 1350 CE -- Conclusion -- PART 4: The Climatic Reversal: Expansion and Innovation amid Plague and Cold from the Mid-Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries CE -- 8: A Converging World: Economic and Ecological Encounters, 1350-1815 -- Environment, economics, and expansion from the East
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Regional trading networks -- Environment, economics, and expansion from the West -- Population, plants, and plantations in the Atlantic world -- Conclusion -- 9: Renaissances, Reformations, and Mental Revolutions: Intellect and Arts in the Early Modern World -- Christendom -- Global conversions -- Buddhist and Muslim missions -- Syncretisms and mingled outcomes -- Western science and enlightenment -- Eastern enlightenments -- Enter the monsters: revolutionary and Napoleonic ideas -- Romanticism -- 10: Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs, Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World -- Introduction -- Empires of monarchs and mercenaries -- Courts, bureaucracies, and legislatures -- Cultural contacts and social changes -- Conclusion -- PART 5: The Great Acceleration: Accelerating Change in a Warming World, c. 1815-c. 2008 -- 11: The Anthropocene Epoch: The Background to Two Transformative Centuries -- Introducing the Anthropocene: 1815-2015 -- The idea of the Anthropocene -- Measuring the Anthropocene: a statistical sketch, and lots of hockey sticks -- The roots of the Anthropocene -- 1750-1900: breakthrough technologies of the Anthropocene -- The fossil fuels revolution takes off: the nineteenth century -- The twentieth century and the 'Great Acceleration' -- The 'Bad Anthropocene' and human impact on the biosphere -- Warning signs -- Conclusions -- 12: The Modern World and its Demons: Ideology and After in Arts, Letters, and Thought, 1815-2008 -- The four pillars of a disputed civilization -- The age of -isms -- The end of embourgeoisement -- Other worlds, and not-so-other -- The post-modern turn: mutability, uncertainty, pluralism, and their enemies -- 13: Politics and Society in the Kaleidoscope of Change: Relationships, Institutions, and Conflicts from the Beginnings of Western Hegemony to American Supremacy
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The transformations of empires -- The city -- The West and the rest -- The state, government, and politics -- The state in the twentieth century -- The local -- Egalitarianism, community, and prejudice -- Ideologies of hate -- Divisions and divisiveness -- The Cold War -- Changing identities -- Religion -- New world order, or asymmetric instability? -- New views of the world -- Epilogue -- Further Reading -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Picture Acknowledgements -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fernández-Armesto, Felipe The Oxford History of the World Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2023 ISBN 9780192884022
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Weltgeschichte
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