World History Encyclopedia

Contributions by a team of over 800 historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and other academics, focused on a world-based view of history, including well-known researchers as well as innovative newcomers who have made remarkable contributions. This multi-faceted approach offers a work that combines orthodox views with creative new perspectives Twenty-one volumes covering the breadth of human history, in nine eras: Beginnings of Human Society; Early Civilizations, 40001000 BCE; Classical Traditions, 1000 BCE300 CE; Expanding Regional Civilizations, 3001000; Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 10001500; The First Global Age, 14501770; The Age of Revolutions, 17501914; Crisis and Achievement, 19001945; Promises and Paradoxes, 1945Present General chronologies plotting large-scale changes in human organization, in areas such as population flow, technological development, and the evolution of social and political institutions Hundreds of images and maps, plus charts and bibliographies A wide range of primary source excerpts (some translated into English for the first time) giving students firsthand exposure to the raw materials of historical researchAndrea, Alfred J. is the author of 'World History Encyclopedia', published 2008 under ISBN 9781851099290 and ISBN 1851099298.