Brief World History

Brief World History tells the adventure of humanity from the Paleolithic Age to the present day, focusing on social and cultural issues, especially gender, family and material culture. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, known for her work in the fields of gender, cultural history, European and world history, looks at world history from a new perspective. In the book, which consists of five chapters, instead of highlighting the political history narrative or examining the world by dividing it into regions, the author approaches the subject from the perspective of comparative world historiography, choosing examples from very different societies in each chapter, allowing us to see the big picture. Brief World History, which follows the change over time through both local processes and intercultural interactions, deals with key events such as the establishment and growth of cities and the formation of global trade networks, with their variants in different geographies. This work by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, who is also the general editor of the seven-volume Cambridge World History series, enriched with numerous pictures and maps, definitely brings a new breath to the field of world history.

"Merry Wiesner-Hanks's work on world history is a groundbreaking book. (…) The first world history to focus primarily on human societies, society, and culture."

David Christian, author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 448

Size: 15.5 x 23

First Printing Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language: Turkish