The Oxford Handbook of World History presents thirty-three essays
by leading historians in their respective fields. The chapters
address the most important issues explored by contemporary world
historians. These broadly fall into four categories: conceptions of
the global past, themes in world history, processes of world
history, regions in world history. Those chapters on conceptions
deal with issues of space and time as treated in the field of world
history as well as questions of method, epistemology, the
historiography of the area, and globalization as viewed from
historical perspective. Themes present in the book include the
natural environment, agriculture, pastoral nomadism, science,
technology, state formation, gender, and religion. Chapters dealing
with large-scale processes review current thinking on some of the
most influential developments of the global past, including mass
migrations, cross-cultural trade, biological diffusions, imperial
expansion, industrialization, and cultural and religious exchanges.
And finally, a set of chapters explores the distinctive historical
development within the world's major regions, while also situating
individual regions in the larger global context. Taken together,
the essays in this volume provide the best guide to current
thinking in one of the most dynamic fields of historical
scholarship.
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