The World : a history /: a history. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
• Authors: Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
• Contents: Volume 1: Chapters 1-15 Volume 2: Chapters 13-30 Volume A: Chapters 1-10 Volume B: Chapters 11-20 Volume C: Chapters 20-30 In Perspective: Cains and Abels PART 6: the crucible: the eurasian crises of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chapter 13 The World the Mongols Made The Mongols: Reshaping Eurasia Genghis Khan The Mongol Steppe The Mongol World Beyond the Steppes: The Silk Roads, China, Persia, and Russia China Persia Russia The Limits of Conquest: Mamluk Egypt and Muslim India Mamluk Egypt Muslim India: The Delhi Sultanate Europe In Perspective: The Uniqueness of the Mongols Chapter 14 The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century Climate Change The Coming of the Age of Plague The Course and Impact of Plague Medicine and Morals The Jews Distribution of Wealth Peasant Millenarianism The Limits of Disaster: Beyond the Plague Zone India Southeast Asia Japan Mali The Pacific: Societies of Isolation Easter Island New Zealand Ozette Chan Chan In Perspective: The Aftershock Chapter 15 Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Fragile Empires in Africa East Africa West Africa Ecological Imperialism in the Americas The Inca Empire The Aztec Empire New Eurasian Empires The Russia Empire Timurids and the Ottoman Empire The Limitations of Chinese Imperialism The Beginnings of Oceanic Imperialism The European Outlook: Problems and Promise In Perspective: Beyond Empires Part 7: Convergence and Divergence to ca. 1700 Chapter 16 Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Maritime Empires: Portugal, Japan, and the Dutch The Portuguese Example Asian Examples The Dutch Connection Land Empires: Russia, China, Mughal India, and the Ottomans China The Mughal Example in India The Ottomans New Land Empires in the Americas Making the New Empires Work In Perspective: The Global Balance of Trade Chapter 17 The Ecological Revolution of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries The Ecological Exchange: Plants and Animals Maize, Sweet Potatoes, and Potatoes Weeds, Grasses, and Livestock Cane Sugar Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate Patterns of Ecological Exchange The Microbial Exchange Demographic Collapse in the New World Plague and New Diseases in Eurasia Labor: Human Transplantations Wild Frontiers: Encroaching Settlement Northern and Central Asia: The Waning of Steppeland Imperialism Pastoral Imperialism in Af.
• Edition: Second edition, Pearson new international edition
• Publisher Details: Harlow : Pearson
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 909; World history -- Textbooks; Civilization -- History -- Textbooks; Human ecology -- Textbooks
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781292052946; 1292052945
• Related ISBNs: 9781292027722
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