The Cambridge World History - Series page

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The Cambridge World History - Title page

pp v-v

Copyright page

pp vi-vi

Dedication

pp vii-viii

Contents

pp ix-xi

Figures

pp xii-xiii

Maps

pp xiv-xiv

Table

pp xv-xv

Contributors

pp xvi-xviii

Preface

pp xix-xxiv

1 - Introduction

pp 1-40

Part I - Global developments

pp 41-176

2 - Humans and the environment: tension and co-evolution

pp 43-69

3 - Women, family, gender, and sexuality

pp 70-93

4 - Society: hierarchy and solidarity

pp 94-115

5 - Educational institutions

pp 116-144

6 - Warfare

pp 145-176

Part II - Eurasian commonalities

pp 177-230

7 - Courtly cultures: western Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic world, India, China, and Japan

pp 179-205

8 - The age of trans-regional reorientations: cultural crystallization and transformation in the tenth to thirteenth centuries

pp 206-230

Part III - Growing interactions

pp 231-382

9 - Trade and commerce across Afro-Eurasia

pp 233-256

10 - European and Mediterranean trade networks

pp 257-286

11 - Trading partners across the Indian Ocean: the making of maritime communities

pp 287-308

12 - Technology and innovation within expanding webs of exchange

pp 309-338

13 - The transmission of science and philosophy

pp 339-358

14 - Pastoral nomadic migrations and conquests

pp 359-382

Part IV - Expanding religious systems

pp 383-480

15 - The centrality of Islamic civilization

pp 385-414