A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

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Merry WiesnerHanks is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She is the longtime senior editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal one of three editors of the Journal of Global History and the editorinchief of the forthcoming multivolume Cambridge World History. She is the author or editor of twenty books and many articles that have appeared in English German Italian Spanish Greek French Chinese Turkish and Korean. These include Early Modern Europe 14501789 2nd edition (Cambridge 2013) Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe 3rd edition (Cambridge 2008) Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire Reforming Practice 2nd edition (2010) and Gender in History: Global Perspectives 2nd edition (2010). Her research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations among others. She has also written a number of innovative source books for use in the college classroom including Discovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence 4th edition (2011) a book for young adults An Age of Voyages 13501600 (2005) and a book for general readers The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and their Worlds (2009).A concise history of the world from the Paleolithic to the present telling the story of humans as producers and reproducers.A global history of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry WiesnerHanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining the social and cultural developments that are at the heart of the big questions in world history today.A global history of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry WiesnerHanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining the social and cultural developments that are at the heart of the big questions in world history today.This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry WiesnerHanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe including families and kin groups social and gender hierarchies sexuality race and ethnicity labor religion consumption and material culture. She examines how these structures and activities changed over time through local processes and interactions with other cultures highlighting key developments that defined particular eras such as the growth of cities or the creation of a global trading network. Incorporating foragers farmers and factory workers along with shamans scribes and secretaries the book widens and lengthens human history. It makes comparisons and generalizations but also notes diversities and particularities as it examines the social and cultural matters that are at the heart of big questions in world history today.Introducti

Data Publikacji: 2015-09-23
Wymiary: 216 mm 138 mm 22 mm 640 gr