Cambridge World History Volume 6 Construction Global World 1400

Description: The Cambridge World History: Volume 6, The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, Part 1, Foundations Comprehensive account of the intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections, between 1400 and 1800. Jerry H. Bentley (Edited by), Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Edited by), Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Edited by) 9781108407731 (SKU 3255345), Cambridge University Press Paperback / softback, published 9 November 2017 512 pages 22.5 x 14.5 x 2.4 cm, 0.8 kg '… gives us a view of the state of the art of a venerable field, with valuable surveys of early modern features of world lifeways from the importance of the environment and resources to disease, urbanization, and household structures.' Jeremy Adelman, Journal of World History The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history. 1. Introduction Sanjay Subrahmanyam Part I. Global Matrices: 2. 'Exhausting the earth': environment and history in the early modern world Robert Marks 3. Globalization of disease, 1300–1900 James Webb 4. Technological transitions Francesca Bray 5. Patterns of urbanization, 1400–1800 Peter Burke 6. Gender and sexuality Merry Wiesner-Hanks Part II. Macro-Regions: 7. Eurasia after the Mongols Thomas T. Allsen 8. Continuity and change in the Indian Ocean basin Jos Gommans 9. The Americas in the age of indigenous empires Matthew Restall 10. Africa in world history, 1400–1800 Ray A. Kea Part III. Large-Scale Political Formations: 11. The Iberian empires, 1400–1800 Jorge Flores 12. Imperial competition in Eurasia: Russia and China Laura Hostetler 13. The Islamic empires of the early modern world Giancarlo Casale Part IV. Crossroads Regions: 14. Crossroads region: Central Asia Morris Rossabi 15. Crossroads region: Southeast Asia Michael Laffan 16. The Caribbean region: crucible for modern world history Alan Karras 17. Crossroads region: the Mediterranean Filippo de Vivo Part V. Overview: 18. Political trajectories compared Jack Goldstone. Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], General & world history [HBG]

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