The Cambridge World History - Volume 4 /
World with states, empires, and networks, 1200 BCE-900 CE Cambridge world history.
edited by Craig Benjamin
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- xx, 711 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Volume 4. World with states, empires, and networks, 1200 BCE-900 CE
Global economic history / Sitta Von Reden -- The gendering of power in the family and the state / Scott Wells, Ping Yao -- Slavery / Peter Hunt -- The axial age in world history / Bjorn Wittrock -- Developments in science and technology c. 800 BCE -- c. 800 CE / Helmuth Schneider -- Discourse on gender and sexuality / Scott Wells, Ping Yao -- Art / Robert Bagley -- Pastoral nomads / Timothy May -- Western and Central Eurasia / Touraj Daryaee -- Regional study : Baktria -- the crossroads of ancient Eurasia / Jeffrey Lerner -- The Mediterranean / Craig Benjamin, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks -- Regional study : Athens in the fifth century BCE / William Morison -- Late antiquity in Europe c. 300-900 CE / Charles F. Pazdernik -- East Asia / Charles Holcombe -- Regional study : Confucianism and the state / Xinzhong Yao -- Regional study : exchanges within the Silk Roads world system / Xinru Liu -- South Asia / Shonaleeka Kaul -- Regional study : Pataliputra / Shonaleeka Kaul -- Australasia and the Pacific / Ian J. Mcniven -- Africa : states, empires, and connections / Stanley Burstein -- Regional study : trans-Saharan trade / Ralph Austen.
Traces the expansion of states, ideologies, social structures and economic systems, and exchange and conquest, between 1200 BCE-900 CE.