The Cambridge World History: Structures, Spaces, and Boundary Making: Part 1 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107000203 ISBN 13: 9781107000209

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cambridge World History series, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the increasingly interconnected history of humankind. The first book examines structures, spaces, and processes within which and through which the modern world was created, including the environment, energy, technology, population, disease, law, industrialization, imperialism, decolonization, nationalism, and socialism, along with key world regions.

About this title

Book Description:

Major new account of the increasingly interconnected history of humankind since 1750. Leading scholars examine key global structures and processes, including the environment, population, disease, industrialization, decolonization, urbanization and migrations, key world regions, social transformations in the family and sexuality, cultural connections, moments of particular importance, and ligaments of globalization.

About the Author:

J. R. McNeill studied at Swarthmore College and Duke University and has taught at Georgetown University, Washington DC, since 1985. He has held two Fulbright awards, Guggenheim, MacArthur Foundation and Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships, and a visiting appointment at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His books include The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain, 1700–1765 (1985); The Mountains of the Mediterranean World (1992); Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (2000), co-winner of the World History Association book prize, the Forest History Society book prize, and runner-up for the BP Natural World book prize, listed by the London Times among the ten best science books ever written (despite not being a science book) and translated into nine languages; The Human Web: A Bird's-eye View of World History (2003), co-authored with his father, William McNeill, and translated into seven languages; and most recently, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (2010), which won the Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association and was listed by the Wall Street Journal among the best books in early American history. In 2010 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for 'academic and public contributions to humanity'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107000203
• ISBN 13: 9781107000209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 674
• Editor: McNeill J. R., Pomeranz Kenneth