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Author: Felipe Fernández Armesto 
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 Illustrated 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.

The Oxford Illustrated History of the World 1st edition  Table of contents:

Part 1. Children of the Ice The Peopling of the World and the Beginnings of Cultural Divergence, c. 200,000 to c. 12,000 years ago

1. Humanity from the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of an Adaptive Species

Over the horizon

Recognizing humans

Ice ages and humans

Settling the earth

Conclusion

2. The Mind in the Ice: Art and Thought before Agriculture

The birth of creativity?

Art as narrative

The spirit world

Ice Age art as comment on society and values

Time to think

Environmental influence on human change

Part 2. Of Mud and Metal Divergent Cultures from the Emergence of Agriculture to the ‘Crisis of the Bronze Age’, c. 10,000 bce–c. 1,000 bce

3. Into a Warming World

Knowing nature

Taming life

House, hearth, and kiln

Energy and fire

Regulating water and soil

Putting down roots

Two episodes of prehistoric agriculture

Home and the wanderer

Food globalization and the trans-Eurasian exchange

Nature reframed

Conclusion

4. The Farmers’ Empires: Climax and Crises in Agrarian States and Cities

The spread and growth of dense settlements and large states

Crises of the late second millennium bce

Part 3. The Oscillations of Empires From the ‘Dark Age’ of the Early First Millennium bce to the Mid-Fourteenth Century ce

5. Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to the Black Death

Climatic context from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age: the Hallstatt solar minimum, 1200–700 bce

Epidemics and the Eurasian steppes

Into the Iron Age and Steel Age

Commerce and empire

Rotary mechanics

Epidemics and climate reversal: into the ‘Dark Ages’

Transformation, contest, and crisis in the Dark Ages, 400–950 ce

Warming global climate: into the Middle Ages, 950–1260 ce

Into the Little Ice Age, and the Black Death, 1260–1350: the Hallstatt solar minimum returns

6. Intellectual Traditions: Philosophy, Science, Religion, and the Arts, 500 bce–1350 ce

An ‘Axial Age’?

The foundations of science

World religions: Christianity and Islam

Religious conversion strategies

Intellectual renaissances

Conclusion

7. Growth: Social and Political Organizations, 1000 bce–1350 ce

The story

Bigger, wider, stronger, deeper

Homo superans

The power of place

The world in 1000 bce

The world in 175 ce

The world in 1350 ce

Conclusion

Part 4. The Climatic Reversal Expansion and Innovation amid Plague and Cold from the Mid-Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries ce

8. A Converging World: Economic and Ecological Encounters, 1350–1815

Environment, economics, and expansion from the East

Regional trading networks

Environment, economics, and expansion from the West

Population, plants, and plantations in the Atlantic world

9. Renaissances, Reformations, and Mental Revolutions: Intellect and Arts in the Early Modern World

Christendom

Global conversions

Buddhist and Muslim missions

Syncretisms and mingled outcomes

Western science and enlightenment

Eastern enlightenments

Enter the monsters: revolutionary and Napoleonic ideas

Romanticism

10. Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs, Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World

Introduction

Empires of monarchs and mercenaries

Courts, bureaucracies, and legislatures

Cultural contacts and social changes

Conclusion

Part 5. The Great Acceleration Accelerating Change in a Warming World, c. 1815–c. 2008

11. The Anthropocene Epoch: The Background to Two Transformative Centuries

Introducing the Anthropocene: 1815–2015

The idea of the Anthropocene

Measuring the Anthropocene: a statistical sketch, and lots of hockey sticks

The roots of the Anthropocene

1750–1900: breakthrough technologies of the Anthropocene

The fossil fuels revolution takes off: the nineteenth century

The twentieth century and the ‘Great Acceleration’

The ‘Bad Anthropocene’ and human impact on the biosphere

Warning signs

Conclusions

12. The Modern World and its Demons: Ideology and After in Arts, Letters, and Thought, 1815–2008

The four pillars of a disputed civilization

The age of -isms

The end of embourgeoisement

Other worlds, and not-so-other

The post-modern turn: mutability, uncertainty, pluralism, and their enemies

13. Politics and Society in the Kaleidoscope of Change: Relationships, Institutions, and Conflicts from the Beginnings of Western Hegemony to American Supremacy

The transformations of empires

The city

The West and the rest

The state, government, and politics

The state in the twentieth century

The local

Egalitarianism, community, and prejudice

Ideologies of hate

Divisions and divisiveness

The Cold War

Changing identities

Religion

New world order, or asymmetric instability?

New views of the world

Epilogue

Further Reading

Picture Acknowledgements

 

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