The Cambridge World History 7 Volume Hardback Set in 9 Pieces

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Main Details

Title The Cambridge World History 7 Volume Hardback Set in 9 Pieces
Authors and Contributors      General editor Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
SeriesThe Cambridge World History
Physical Properties
Format:Mixed media product
Pages:5297
Dimensions(mm): Height 313,Width 168
Category/GenreWorld history
ISBN/Barcode 9781107107724
ClassificationsDewey:909
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations 48 Tables, black and white; 166 Maps; 317 Halftones, unspecified; 317 Halftones, black and white; 112 Line drawings, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 23 April 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Cambridge World History is an authoritative new overview of the dynamic field of world history. It covers the whole of human history, not simply history since the development of written records, in an expanded time frame that represents the latest thinking in world and global history. With over two hundred essays, it is the most comprehensive account yet of the human past, and it draws on a broad international pool of leading academics from a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Reflecting the increasing awareness that world history can be examined through many different approaches and at varying geographic and chronological scales, each volume offers regional, topical, and comparative essays alongside case studies that provide depth of coverage to go with the breadth of vision that is the distinguishing characteristic of world history.

Author Biography

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She began her scholarly career as a historian of early modern Europe, with a particular focus on women and gender, and remains a leader in that field, serving as the president of three scholarly societies and since 1996 as the Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal. Since 2000 she has also moved into world and global history, and now serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Global History. She is the author or editor of twenty books and many articles that have appeared in English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean. These include Early Modern Europe 1450-1789, 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.