Bibliograph

A concise history of the world, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Type

Label

A concise history of the world, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A concise history of the world

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

908262350

Responsibility statement

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Series statement

Cambridge concise histories

Summary

"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."--Publisher's website

Table Of Contents

Foraging and farming families (to 3000 BCE) -- Cities and classical societies (3000 BCE-500 CE) -- Expanding networks of interaction, 500 CE-1500 CE -- A new world of connections, 1500 CE-1800 CE -- Industrialization, imperialism, and inequality, 1800 CE-2015 CE

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