Breve historia de el Mundo

Este libro cuenta la historia de la humanidad como productores y reproductores desde el Paleolítico hasta el presente. La prestigiosa historiadora social y cultural Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks analiza desde una nueva perspectiva la historia global al examinar los desarrollos sociales y culturales en todo el ...

A concise history of the World

This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups ...

Mapping gendered routes and spaces in the Early Modern World

How did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe? How did women situate themselves in the early modern world, and how did they move through it, in both real and imaginary ...

The Cambridge World History

Vol.VI: The construction of a global world, 1400-1800 CE - Part 1: Foundations

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 4 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material ...

The Cambridge World History

Vol.VI: The construction of a global world, 1400-1800 CE - Part 2: Patterns of change

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 ...

The Cambridge World History

Vol.V: Expanding webs of exchange and conflict, 500 CE - 1500 CE

Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and ...

Early Modern Europe

1450-1789

The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations and discussion questions to support ...

Christianity and sexuality on the Early Modern World

regulating desire, reforming practice

The book surveys the ways in which Christian ideas and institutions shaped sexual norms and conduct from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson. It is global in scope and geographic in organization, with chapters on Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Europe ...

Gender in history

global perspectives

Updated with new material to reflect the latest developments in the field, Gender in History: A Global Perspective, 2nd Edition, provides a concise overview of the construction of gender in world cultures from the Paleolithic era to modern times. * Includes examples drawn from the most ...

Religious transformations in the early modern world

a brief history with documents

The early modern period witnessed sometimes startling, sometimes subtle transformations in the religious and intellectual life of peoples across the globe. For reasons that varied widely, leaders and thinkers from Mexico to the Ottoman Empire and from China to the Indian subcontinent sought to reform ...

Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

New edition of Merry Wiesner-Hanks# prize-winning survey of women and gender in early modern Europe. The updated edition features an entirely new chapter on gender and race in the colonial world; expanded coverage of eighteenth century developments including the Enlightenment; and enhanced discussions of masculinity ...

Early Modern Europe 1450-1789

Covering European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, this accessible and engaging textbook offers an innovative account of people's lives, from a variety of backgrounds, in the early modern period and within the global context of European developments ...