The Cambridge World History: Volume 1, Introducing World History, to 10,000 Bce

Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part I leading scholars outline the approaches, methods, and themes that have shaped and defined world history scholarship across the world and right up to the present day. Chapters examine the historiographical development of the field globally, periodisation, divergence and convergence, belief and knowledge, technology and innovation, family, gender, anthropology, migration, and fire. Part II surveys the vast Palaeolithic era, which laid the foundations for human history, concentrating on the most recent phases of hominin evolution, the rise of Homo sapiens and the very earliest human societies through to the end of the last ice age. Anthropologists, archaeologists, historical linguists and historians examine climate and tools, language, and culture, as well as offering regional perspectives from across the world.

Author: David Christian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/09/2017
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 5.94h x 8.99w x 0.33d
ISBN13: 9781108406420
ISBN10: 1108406424
BISAC Categories:
- History | World | General
- History | Ancient | General
- History | Europe | Medieval