World A History, Combined Volume

Name: World A History, Combined Volume
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ISBN: 9780136061472

ISBN-10: 0136061478

ISBN-13: 9780136061472

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: Felipe Fernï¿½ndez-Armesto

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Book details

List price: $239.20
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 1/27/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1152
Size: 9.00" wide x 10.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 5.984
Language: English

Felipe Fernï¿½ndez-Armesto, the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration and Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States. He lives in South Bend, Indiana, and London.



Maps Special Features Getting the Most Out of the Maps in


The World About Felipe Fernaacute;ndez-Armesto From the Author to the Reader Introducing


The World Acknowledgments


A Note on Dates and Spelling



Foragers and Farmers, to 5000B.C.E.



Out of the Ice: Peopling the Earth


So You Think Yoursquo;re Human?


Human Evolution


Out of Africa


Peopling the Old World


Migration, Population, and Social Change


The Last Great Ice Age


Ice-Age Hunters


Ice-Age Art


Ice-Age Culture and Society


Peopling the New World


Survival of the Foragers in Perspective: After the Ice



Out of the Mud: Farming and Herding after the Ice Age


The Problem of Agriculture


A Case in Point: Aboriginal Australians


Preagricultural Settlements


The Disadvantages of Farming


Husbandry in Different Environments


Herdersrsquo; Environments


Tillersrsquo; Environments


The Spread of Agriculture


Europe


Asia


The Americas


Africa


The Pacific Islands


So Why Did Farming Start?


Population Pressure


The Outcome of Abundance


The Power of Politics


Cult Agriculture


Climatic Instability


Agriculture by Accident


Production As an Outgrowth of Procurement


A Conservative Revolution?


In Perspective: Seeking Stability



The Big Picture-The World In 5000B.c.e.



Farmers and Builders, 5000 to 500B.C.E.



The Great River Valleys: Accelerating Change and Developing States


Growing Communities, Divergent Cul<$$$>