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World, The: A History - Pearson New International Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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World, The: A History - Pearson New International Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The World interweaves two stories-of our interactions with nature
and with each other. The environment-centered story is about humans
distancing themselves from the rest of nature and searching for a
relationship that strikes a balance between constructive and
destructive exploitation. The culture-centered story is of how
human cultures have become mutually influential and yet mutually
differentiating. Both stories have been going on for thousands of
years. We do not know whether they will end in triumph or disaster.
There is no prospect of covering all of world history in one book.
Rather, the fabric of this book is woven from selected strands.
Readers will see these at every turn, twisted together into yarn,
stretched into stories. Human-focused historical ecology-the
environmental theme-will drive readers back, again and again, to
the same concepts: sustenance, shelter, disease, energy,
technology, art. (The last is a vital category for historians, not
only because it is part of our interface with the rest of the
world, but also because it forms a record of how we see reality and
of how the way we see it changes.) In the global story of human
interactions-the cultural theme-we return constantly to the ways
people make contact with each another: migration, trade, war,
imperialism, pilgrimage, gift exchange, diplomacy, travel-and to
their social frameworks: the economic and political arenas, the
human groups and groupings, the states and civilizations, the sexes
and generations, the classes and clusters of identity.
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