A history of world societies v. 1 To 1600

This volume provides an accessible introduction to the global past (from prehistory to 1600 CE) through social history. Thoroughly revised, the ninth edition now contains more global comparisons, documents, features and activities toaid and reinforce students' learning. JOHN P. MCKAY Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, USA. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning bookPioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913andTramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe. BENNETT D. HILL late of the University of Illinois, USA, publishedEnglish Cistercian Monasteries andTheir Patrons in the Twelfth Century, Church and State in the Middle Ages, and numerous articles and reviews, and was one of the contributing editors toThe Encyclopedia of World History.A Benedictine monk of St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington, D.C., he was also a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, USA. JOHN BUCKLER taught History at the Universityof Illinois, USA. His published books includeTheban Hegemony, 371-362 B.C.,Philip II and the Sacred War, andAegean Greece in the Fourth Century B.C. With Hans Beck, he most recently publishedCentral Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century. PATRICA B. EBREY Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, specializes in China. She has published numerous journal articles andThe Cambridge Illustrated History of China, as well as numerous monographs.In 2010 she won the Shimada Prize for outstanding work of East Asian Art History forAccumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. ROGER B. BECK Distinguished Professor of African and Twentieth-Century World History at Eastern Illinois University, USA. His publications includeThe History of South Africa, a translation of P. J. van der Merwe'sThe Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony, 1657-1842, and more than seventy-five articles, book chapters, and reviews. He is a former treasurer and Executive Council member of the World History Association. CLARE HARU CROWSTON teaches at the University of Illinois, USA, where she is currently Associate Professor of History. She is the author ofFabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old RegimeFrance,1675-1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women's History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies. MERRY E. WIESNER-HANKS taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, USA, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of History. She is the co-editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editorof more than twenty books, most recentlyThe Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their WorldsandGender in History. She is the former Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History. INDICE: The Earliest Human Societies, to 2500 B.C.E.The Rise of the Statein Southwest Asia and the Nile Valley, ca. 3200-500 B.C.E.The Foundation of Indian Society, to 300 c.e.China's Classical Age, to 221 B.C.E.The Greek Experience, ca. 3500-150 B.C.E. The World of Rome, ca. 750 B.C.E.-400 C.E.East Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, 221 B.C.E-800 C.E.Continuity and Change in Europe and Western Asia, ca. 350-850 The Islamic World, ca. 600-1400African Societiesand Kingdoms, ca. 1000 B.C.E.b 1500 C.E.The Americas, 3000 B.C.E.-1500 C.E.Cultural Exchange in Central and Southern Asia, to 1400States and Cultures in East Asia, ca. 800-1400Europe in the Middle Ages, 800-1450Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1600The Acceleration of Global Contact, 1450-1600.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-39437-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 568
• Fecha Publicación: 30/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés