Histories you can trust.
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.
The Oxford History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.
Part I: Children of the Ice
1: Clive Gamble: Humanity From the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of an Adaptive Species
2: Felipe Fernández-Armesto: The Mind in the Ice: Art and Thought before Agriculture
Part II: Of Mud and Metal
3: Martin Jones: Into a Warming World
4: Felipe Fernández-Armesto: The Farmers' Empires: Climax and Crises in Agrarian States and Cities
Part III: The Oscillations of Empires
5: John Brooke: Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to the Black Death
6: David Northrup: Intellectual Traditions: Philosophy, Science, Religion, and the Arts, 500 BCE - 1350 CE
7: Ian Morris: Growth: Social and Political Organizations, 1000 BC-AD 1350
Part IV: The Climatic Reversal
8: David Northrup: A Converging World: Economic and Ecological Encounters, 1350-1815
9: Manuel Lucena-Giraldo: Renaissances, Reformations, and Mental Revolutions: Intellect and Arts in the Early Modern World
10: Anjana Singh: Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs, Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World
Part V: The Great Acceleration
11: David Christian: The Anthropocene Epoch: The Background to Two Transformative Centuries
12: Paolo Luca Bernardini: The Modern World and Its Demons: Ideology and After in Arts, Letters and Thought, 1815-2008
13: Jeremy Black: Politics and Society in the Kaleidoscope of Change: Relationships, Institutions, and Conflicts from the Beginnings of Western Hegemony to the American Supremacy
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