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

Leading scholars examine the increasingly interconnected history of humankind since 1750 in terms of structures, processes, regions, and events.

J. R. McNeill (Edited by), Kenneth Pomeranz (Edited by)

9781108407755, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 November 2017

600 pages, 25 b/w illus. 17 maps 11 tables
22.5 x 14.3 x 3 cm, 1 kg

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.

1. Introduction Kenneth Pomeranz and John McNeill
Part I. Material Matrices: 2. Energy, population, and environmental change since 1750: entering the anthropocene John McNeill
3. The economic history of agriculture since 1800 Giovanni Federico
4. Industrialization Kaoru Sugihara, John McNeill, Kenneth Pomeranz and Merry Wiesner-Hanks
5. The history of world technology, 1750-present Paul Josephson
6. A new world of energy Vaclav Smil
Part II. Population and Disease: 7. Demography and population Massimo Livi-Bacci
8. Population politics since 1750 Alison Bashford
9. Disease and world history from 1750 Mark Harrison
10. The politics of smallpox eradication Erez Manela
Part III. Politics: 11. The evolution of international law Tony Arend
12. On nationalism Aviel Roshwald
13. Assessing imperialism Danielle Kinsey
14. Self-strengthening and other political responses to the expansion of European economic and political power Bin Wong
15. Decolonization and its legacy Prasenjit Duara
16. Genocide Mark Levene
17. Communism and fascism Robert Strayer
Part IV. World Regions: 18. The Middle East in world history since 1750 John Voll
19. East Asia in world history Mark Selden
20. Latin America in world history Julie Charlip
21. Africa in world history Frederick Cooper
22. The United States in world history since the 1750s Ian Tyrrell
23. The economic history of the Pacific Lionel Frost.

Subject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], General & world history [HBG]