Table Of Content
Part I. Migrations and Encounters: 1. Global migrations Dirk Hoerder; 2. Patterns of warfare, 1400-1800 Jeremy Black; 3. The first global dialogues: inter-cultural relations, 1400-1800 John E. Wills, Jr; 4. Legal encounters and the origins of global law Lauren Benton and Adam Clulow; Part II. Trade, Exchange, and Production: 5. The Columbian exchange Noble David Cook; 6. The slave trade and the African diaspora John Thornton; 7. The organization of trade in Europe and Asia, 1400-1800 Francesca Trivellato; 8. Entrepreneurs, families and companies Charles H. Parker; 9. Silver in global context, 1400-1800 Dennis O. Flynn; 10. Dutch and English trade to the east: the Indian Ocean and the Levant, to about 1700 James D. Tracy; 11. Plantation societies Trevor Burnard; 12. Industrious revolutions in early modern world history R. Bin Wong and Kaoru Sugihara; Part III. Religion and Religious Change: 13. The scholarly discovery of religion in early modern times Guy Stroumsa; 14. Christianity in Europe and overseas Ronnie Hsia; 15. Islam in the early modern world Nile Greene; 16. Religious change in East Asia Eugenio Menegon and Gina Cogan; Part IV. Questions of Method: 17. On early modern historiography Sanjay Subrahmanyam; 18. Microhistory and world history Carlo Ginzburg.
Synopsis
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history., Comprehensive new global history of the intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges that took place on an unprecedented scale from 1400 to 1800. Leading scholars examine the environment, disease, technology, cities, migrations, warfare, law, religions, and slavery, along with insightful regional analyses of empires, crossroads areas, and sites of conflict.
