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What Is Global History?

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ISBN-10: 0745633013

ISBN-13: 9780745633015

Edition: 2007

Authors: Pamela Kyle Crossley

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Global and world history address the deep structural changes that have shaped human experience. Many are material, related to environmental and climatic alteration, to the domestication of livestock and development of agriculture, to technology, to disease, and to variations in human immunity, reproduction, and physiology. Others are social and cultural, touching upon issues of migration, trade, language development and differentiation, institutions of enslavement and of freedom, traditions of marriage and child-rearing, the emergence of large-scale political organization from early kingdoms to vast empires, republics and federations, and the management of war and peace. To deal with such…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 3/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

#60;b#62;Pamela Kyle Crossley#60;/b#62; is Professor of Inner Asian, East Asian Intellectual and Chinese History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Her publications include #60;i#62;The Manchus#60;/i#62; (Blackwell, 1997); #60;i#62;A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Ideology#60;/i#62; (1999); and #60;i#62;What is Global History?#60;/i#62; (2008). She is a past Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the Levenson Prize from the Association for Asian Studies in 2001.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Great Story Impulse
Divergence
Convergence
Contagion
Systems
What Global History is
Bibliography
Index