SALE The Cambridge World History Volume 4: A World with States, Empires and Networks 1200 BCE–900 CE

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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 series 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.

 

• Brings together a team of leading classicists, archaeologists and world historians to offer a distinctive new global history of the ancient world
• Explores key developments in the ancient world at three interacting scales: global, interregional, and regional
• Represents the most recent thinking about global history in its exploration of the political, social, cultural, economic and intellectual developments of the period