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| Key Features | |
| Author(s) | Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
| Publisher | Pearson Education (US) |
| Date of Publication | 26/01/2009 |
| Language | English |
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-10 | 0136061494 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780136061496 |
| Subject | History: World & General |
| Publication Data | |
| Country of Publication | United States |
| Imprint | Pearson |
| Content Note | illustrations |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 1295 g |
| Width | 227 mm |
| Height | 272 mm |
| Spine | 23 mm |
| Editorial Details | |
| Edition Statement | 2nd Revised edition |
| Description | |
| Table Of Contents | Volume 1: Chapters 1-15 Volume 2: Chapters 13-30 Volume A: Chapters 1-10 Volume B: Chapters 11-20 Volume C: Chapters 20-30 In Perspective: Cains and Abels PART 6: the crucible: the eurasian crises of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chapter 13 The World the Mongols Made The Mongols: Reshaping Eurasia * Genghis Khan * The Mongol Steppe The Mongol World Beyond the Steppes: The Silk Roads, China, Persia, and Russia * China * Persia * Russia The Limits of Conquest: Mamluk Egypt and Muslim India * Mamluk Egypt * Muslim India: The Delhi Sultanate Europe In Perspective: The Uniqueness of the Mongols Chapter 14 The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century Climate Change The Coming of the Age of Plague * The Course and Impact of Plague * Medicine and Morals * The Jews * Distribution of Wealth * Peasant Millenarianism The Limits of Disaster: Beyond the Plague Zone * India * Southeast Asia * Japan * Mali The Pacific: Societies of Isolation * Easter Island * New Zealand * Ozette * Chan Chan In Perspective: The Aftershock Chapter 15 Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Fragile Empires in Africa * East Africa * West Africa Ecological Imperialism in the Americas * The Inca Empire * The Aztec Empire New Eurasian Empires * The Russia Empire * Timurids and the Ottoman Empire The Limitations of Chinese Imperialism The Beginnings of Oceanic Imperialism The European Outlook: Problems and Promise In Perspective: Beyond Empires Part 7: Convergence and Divergence to ca. 1700 Chapter 16 Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Maritime Empires: Portugal, Japan, and the Dutch * The Portuguese Example * Asian Examples * The Dutch Connection Land Empires: Russia, China, Mughal India, and the Ottomans * China * The Mughal Example in India * The Ottomans New Land Empires in the Americas * Making the New Empires Work In Perspective: The Global Balance of Trade Chapter 17 The Ecological Revolution of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries The Ecological Exchange: Plants and Animals * Maize, Sweet Potatoes, and Potatoes * Weeds, Grasses, and Livestock * Cane Sugar * Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate * Patterns of Ecological Exchange The Microbial Exchange * Demographic Collapse in the New World * Plague and New Diseases in Eurasia Labor: Human Transplantations Wild Frontiers: Encroaching Settlement * Northern and Central Asia: The Waning of Steppeland Imperialism * Pastoral Imperialism in Africa and the Americas Imperialism and Settlement in Europe and Asia * China * India New Exploitation in the Americas * The Spanish Empire * Brazil * British North America Home Fronts in Europe and Asia * New Energy Sources * Land Reclamation Frontiers of the Hunt In Perspective: Evolution Redirected Chapter 18 Mental Revolutions: Religion and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Christianity in Christendom Christianity Beyond Christendom: The Limits of Success The Missionary Worlds of Buddhism and Islam * China and Japan * The Mongols * Islam The Resulting Mix: Global Religious Diversity-American and Indian Examples * Black America * White America * India The Renaissance Discovery of the World The Rise of Western Science Western Science in the East In Perspective: The Scales of Thought Chapter 19 States and Societies: Political and Social Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Political Change in Europe Western Political Thought Western Society The Ottomans Mughal India and Safavid Persia China * Chinese Politics * Chinese Society Tokugawa Japan The New World of the Americas Africa In Perspective: Centuries of Upheaval Part 8: Global Enlightenments, 1700-1800 Chapter 20 Driven by Growth: The Global Economy in the Eighteenth Century Popul |
| Author Biography | Felipe Fernandez-Armesto holds the William P. Reynolds Chair of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has master,s and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford, where he spent most of his teaching career, before taking up the Chair of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary College, University of London in 2000, and the Prince of Asturias Chair at Tufts University (2005-9). He is on editorial boards for the History of Cartography for the University of Chicago Press, Studies in Overseas History (Leiden University), Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journeys, and Journal of Global History. Recent awards include the World History Association Book Prize (2007), Spain,s Premio Nacional de GastronomIa (2005, for his work on the history of food), the Premio Nacional de Investigacion (Sociedad Geografica Espanola, 2004). He has had many distinguished visiting appointments, including a Fellowship of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and a Union Pacific Visiting Professorship at the University of Minnesota. He won the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum in 1995 and the John Carter Brown Medal in 1999 and has honorary doctorates from La Trobe University and the Universidad de los Andes. He has served on the Council of the Hakluyt Society, on the Committee of English PEN, and as Chairman of the PEN Literary Foundation. His work in journalism includes regular columns in the British and Spanish press, and, among many contributions to broadcasting, he is the longest-serving presenter of BBC radio,s flagship current affairs program, Analysis. He has been short-listed for the most valuable literary prize in the U.K. |
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