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Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the
cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth
of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic
systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by
outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world,
including human relations with nature, gender and family, social
hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine
maritime and land-based networks of long-distance trade and
migration in agricultural and nomadic societies, and the
transmission and exchange of cultural forms, scientific knowledge,
technologies, and text-based religious systems that accompanied
these. The final section surveys the development of centralized
regional states and empires in both the eastern and western
hemispheres. Together these essays by an international team of
leading authors show how processes furthering cultural, commercial,
and political integration within and between various regions of the
world made this millennium a 'proto-global' era.
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World surveys the
ways in which people from the time of Luther and Columbus to that
of Thomas Jefferson used Christian ideas and institutions to
regulate and shape sexual norms and conduct, and examines the
impact of their efforts. Global in scope and geographic in
organization, the book contains chapters on Protestant, Catholic,
and Orthodox Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and
Asia, and North America. It explores key topics, including marriage
and divorce, fornication and illegitimacy, clerical sexuality,
same-sex relations, witchcraft and love magic, moral crimes, and
interracial relationships. The book sets its findings within the
context of many historical fields, including the history of gender
and sexuality, and of colonialism and race. Each chapter in this
third edition has been updated to reflect new scholarship,
particularly on the actual lived experience of people around the
world. This has resulted in expanded coverage of nearly every
issue, including notions of the body and of honor, gendered
religious symbols, religious and racial intermarriage, sexual and
gender fluidity, the process of conversion, the interweaving of
racial identity and religious ideologies, and the role of
Indigenous and enslaved people in shaping Christian traditions and
practices. It is ideal for students of the history of sexuality,
early modern Christianity, and early modern gender.
Covering European history from the invention of the printing press
to the French Revolution, the third edition of this best-selling
textbook is thoroughly updated with new scholarship and an emphasis
on environmental history, travel and migration, race and cultural
blending, and the circulation of goods and knowledge. Summaries,
timelines, maps, illustrations, and discussion questions illuminate
the narrative and support the student. Enhanced online content and
sections on sources and methodology give students the tools they
need to study early modern European history. Leading historian
Merry Wiesner-Hanks skillfully balances breadth and depth of
coverage to create a strong narrative, paying particular attention
to the global context of European developments. She integrates
discussion of gender, class, regional, and ethnic differences
across the entirety of Europe and its overseas colonies as well as
the economic, political, religious, and cultural history of the
period.
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Experiencing World History (Hardcover)
Paul Vauthier Adams, Erick Detlef Langer, Lily Hwa, Peter N Stearns, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
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An intensive introduction to global social history themes, covering
early societies to the 20th century Covering early societies, the
classical, postclassical, and modern periods, and the 20th century,
and blending the great advances in historical research over the
past quarter century, Experiencing World History represents an
important addition to the teaching of world history. Focusing on
major issues in social history in the context of world history and
divided into five chronological sections that highlight the mixture
of change and continuity, the volume traces key aspects of society
over time, among them gender; work and leisure; state and society;
culture contact and population patterns. Truly global in scope,
Experiencing World History includes deep coverage of all the major
areas including Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. A brief
introduction ties the social history themes to more conventional
world history coverage, and an epilogue after each of the five
sections suggests overarching themes and connections.
How did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the
inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe? How
did women situate themselves in the early modern world, and how did
they move through it, in both real and imaginary locations? How do
new disciplinary and geographic connections shape the ways we think
about the early modern world, and the role of women and men in it?
These are the questions that guide this volume, which includes
articles by a select group of scholars from many disciplines: Art
History, Comparative Literature, English, German, History,
Landscape Architecture, Music, and Women's Studies. Each essay
reaches across fields, and several are written by interdisciplinary
groups of authors. The essays also focus on many different places,
including Rome, Amsterdam, London, and Paris, and on texts and
images that crossed the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, or that
portrayed real and imagined people who did. Many essays investigate
topics key to the 'spatial turn' in various disciplines, such as
borders and their permeability, actual and metaphorical spatial
crossings, travel and displacement, and the built environment.
A regional and global approach to world history that highlights
society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for
its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and
sustained attention to social history, the Eleventh Edition of A
History of World Societies includes even more features and tools to
engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition
includes more help with historical thinking skills, an expanded
primary source program in print and online, and the best and latest
scholarship throughout The book can be purchased with the
breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which combines an e-book
with a wealth of time-saving teaching and learning tools. LaunchPad
comes with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded
learning tool that ensures students come to class prepared. Volume
2 includes Chapters 16-33
This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers
from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural
historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks 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.
Covering European history from the invention of the printing press
to the French Revolution, the third edition of this best-selling
textbook is thoroughly updated with new scholarship and an emphasis
on environmental history, travel and migration, race and cultural
blending, and the circulation of goods and knowledge. Summaries,
timelines, maps, illustrations, and discussion questions illuminate
the narrative and support the student. Enhanced online content and
sections on sources and methodology give students the tools they
need to study early modern European history. Leading historian
Merry Wiesner-Hanks skillfully balances breadth and depth of
coverage to create a strong narrative, paying particular attention
to the global context of European developments. She integrates
discussion of gender, class, regional, and ethnic differences
across the entirety of Europe and its overseas colonies as well as
the economic, political, religious, and cultural history of the
period.
The new Concise edition of A History of World Societies offers an
accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained
attention to social history in a brief, affordable text. The
Concise Edition features the full narrative of the comprehensive
edition, as well as a selection of features and tools to engage
today's students and save instructors time. Robust primary sources
in print and online help students with historical thinking skills.
The new Concise edition of A History of World Societies offers an
accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained
attention to social history in a brief, affordable text. The
Concise Edition features the full narrative of the comprehensive
edition, as well as a selection of features and tools to engage
today's students and save instructors time. Robust primary sources
in print and online help students with historical thinking skills.
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World surveys the
ways in which people from the time of Luther and Columbus to that
of Thomas Jefferson used Christian ideas and institutions to
regulate and shape sexual norms and conduct, and examines the
impact of their efforts. Global in scope and geographic in
organization, the book contains chapters on Protestant, Catholic,
and Orthodox Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and
Asia, and North America. It explores key topics, including marriage
and divorce, fornication and illegitimacy, clerical sexuality,
same-sex relations, witchcraft and love magic, moral crimes, and
interracial relationships. The book sets its findings within the
context of many historical fields, including the history of gender
and sexuality, and of colonialism and race. Each chapter in this
third edition has been updated to reflect new scholarship,
particularly on the actual lived experience of people around the
world. This has resulted in expanded coverage of nearly every
issue, including notions of the body and of honor, gendered
religious symbols, religious and racial intermarriage, sexual and
gender fluidity, the process of conversion, the interweaving of
racial identity and religious ideologies, and the role of
Indigenous and enslaved people in shaping Christian traditions and
practices. It is ideal for students of the history of sexuality,
early modern Christianity, and early modern gender.
This fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning
survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to
reflect the newest scholarship. Global issues have been threaded
throughout the book, while still preserving the clear thematic
structure of previous editions. Thus readers will find expanded
discussions of gendered racial hierarchies, migration,
missionaries, and consumer goods. In addition, there is enhanced
coverage of recent theoretical directions; the ideas, beliefs, and
practices of ordinary people; early industrialization; women's
learning, letter writing, and artistic activities; emotions and
sentiments; single women and same-sex relations; masculinities;
mixed-race and enslaved women; and the life course from birth to
death. With geographically broad coverage, including Russia,
Scandinavia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Iberian Peninsula, this
remains the leading text on women and gender in Europe in this
period. Accompanying this essential reading is a completely revised
website featuring extensive updated bibliographies, web links, and
primary source material.
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the
cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth
of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic
systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by
outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world,
including human relations with nature, gender and family, social
hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine
maritime and land-based networks of long-distance trade and
migration in agricultural and nomadic societies, and the
transmission and exchange of cultural forms, scientific knowledge,
technologies, and text-based religious systems that accompanied
these. The final section surveys the development of centralized
regional states and empires in both the eastern and western
hemispheres. Together these essays by an international team of
leading authors show how processes furthering cultural, commercial,
and political integration within and between various regions of the
world made this millennium a 'proto-global' era.
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and
cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an
unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the
Cambridge World History series considers these critical
transformations. The first book examines the material and political
foundations of the era, including global considerations of the
environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional
studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres,
crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the
Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including
Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book
focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of
Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a
global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the
Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian
religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early
industrialism, and the writing of history.
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and
cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an
unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the
Cambridge World History series considers these critical
transformations. The first book examines the material and political
foundations of the era, including global considerations of the
environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional
studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres,
crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the
Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including
Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book
focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of
Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a
global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the
Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian
religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early
industrialism, and the writing of history.
How did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the
inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe? How
did women situate themselves in the early modern world, and how did
they move through it, in both real and imaginary locations? How do
new disciplinary and geographic connections shape the ways we think
about the early modern world, and the role of women and men in it?
These are the questions that guide this volume, which includes
articles by a select group of scholars from many disciplines: Art
History, Comparative Literature, English, German, History,
Landscape Architecture, Music, and Women's Studies. Each essay
reaches across fields, and several are written by interdisciplinary
groups of authors. The essays also focus on many different places,
including Rome, Amsterdam, London, and Paris, and on texts and
images that crossed the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, or that
portrayed real and imagined people who did. Many essays investigate
topics key to the 'spatial turn' in various disciplines, such as
borders and their permeability, actual and metaphorical spatial
crossings, travel and displacement, and the built environment.
This collection brings together selections from Martin Luther's extensive writings on women, the vast majority of which are translated here into English for the first time. It includes chapters on Eve and the nature of women, the Virgin Mary, Biblical women, marriage, sexuality, childbirth, Luther's relations with his wife and other contemporary women, and witchcraft. Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Susan Karant-Nunn provide a general introduction to each chapter, and Luther's actual texts add fuel to the debate concerned with whether the Protestant Reformation was beneficial or detrimental to women.
This collection brings together selections from Martin Luther's extensive writings on women, the vast majority of which are translated here into English for the first time. It includes chapters on Eve and the nature of women, the Virgin Mary, Biblical women, marriage, sexuality, childbirth, Luther's relations with his wife and other contemporary women, and witchcraft. Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Susan Karant-Nunn provide a general introduction to each chapter, and Luther's actual texts add fuel to the debate concerned with whether the Protestant Reformation was beneficial or detrimental to women.
"A Companion to Gender History" surveys the history of women around
the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered
societies, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human
behavior over thousands of years.
An extensive survey of the history of women around the world, their
interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping human
behavior over thousands of years.
Discusses family history, the history of the body and sexuality,
and cultural history alongside women's history and gender history.
Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race and
religion to the formation of gendered societies.
Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographic essays.
Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as well as
to the modern era.
Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world and
scholars for whom English is not their first language.
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