The Oxford handbook of world history / edited by Jerry H. Bentley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bentley, Jerry H., 1949-2012.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xi, 613 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

The best guide to current thinking in one of the most dynamic fields of historical scholarship

Thirty-two essays by leading scholars in their respective fields

Explores issues identified by contemporary world historians as of paramount importance

Coverage includes conceptions of the global past, themes in world history, processes of world history, and regions in world history Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I: Concepts : Theories of world history since the Enlightenment

Geographies

Periodization

Modernity

Globalizations

Epistemology. Part II: Themes : World environmental history

Agriculture

Nomadic pastoralism

States, state transformation, and war

Genders

Religions and world history

Technology, engineering and science

Advanced agriculture. Part III: Processes : Migrations

Trace across Eurasia to about 1750

Industrialization

Biological exchanges in world history

Cultural exchanges in world history

Pre-modern empires

Modern imperialism. Part IV: Regions : East Asia and Central Eurasia

South Asia and Southeast Asia

The Middle East in world history

Africa in world history: the long, long view

Europe and Russia in world history

Mediterranean history

The Americas, 1450-2000

The Atlantic Ocean basin

Oceania and Australasia

The Pacific Ocean basin to 1850.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199235810

0199235813

OCLC:

670482268