The Cambridge world history. Volume 4, A world with states, empires and networks 1200 BCE-900 CE [electronic resource] / edited by Craig Benjamin.

Contributor Benjamin, Craig, editor.

ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Description1 online resource (xx, 711 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Note:Vol. 4: 1. Introduction: the world from 1200 BCE to 900 CE Craig Benjamin; Part I. Global Histories: 2. Global economic history Sitta von Reden; 3. The gendering of power in the family and the state Scott Wells and Ping Yao; 4. Slavery Peter Hunt; 5. The axial age in world history Bjorn Wittrock; 6. Developments in science and technology c.800 BCE to c.800 CE Helmuth Schneider; 7. Discourses on gender and sexuality Scott Wells and Ping Yao; 8. Art Robert Bagley; 9. Pastoral nomads Tim May; Part II. Trans-Regional and Regional Perspectives: 10. Western and Central Eurasia Touraj Daryaee; 11. Regional study: Bactria -- the crossroads of ancient Eurasia Jeffrey Lerner; 12. The Mediterranean Craig Benjamin and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks; 13. Regional study: Athens in the fifth century BCE William Morison; 14. Late antiquity in Europe c.300-900 CE Charles F. Pazdernik; 15. East Asia Charles Holcombe; 16. Regional study: Confucianism and the state Xinzhong Yao; 17. Regional study: exchanges within the Silk Roads world system Xinru Liu; 18. South Asia Shonaleeka Kaul; 19. Regional study: Pataliputra Shonaleeka Kaul; 20. The Americas Erica Begun and Janet Brashler; 21. Regional study: Chaco culture and the US Southwest Stephen H. Lekson; 22. Australasia and the Pacific Ian J. McNiven; 23. Africa: states, empires, and connections Stanley Burstein; 24. Regional study: trans-Saharan trade Ralph Austen.

Note:From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and expansion of these large-scale entities, this fourth volume of The Cambridge World History outlines key economic, political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments that occurred across the globe in this period. Leading scholars examine critical transformations in science and technology, economic systems, attitudes towards gender and family, social hierarchies, education, art, and slavery. The second part of the volume focuses on broader processes of change within western and central Eurasia, the Mediterranean, South Asia, Africa, East Asia, Europe, the Americas and Oceania, as well as offering regional studies highlighting specific topics, from trade along the Silk Roads and across the Sahara, to Chaco culture in the US southwest, to Confucianism and the state in East Asia.

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