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 gro...

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Main Author:	Wiesner, Merry E. 1952- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
Series:	Cambridge concise histories
Subjects:	World history / Textbooks Weltgeschichte
Links:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236133 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236133 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236133 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236133
Summary:	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, social and gender hierarchies, sexuality, race and ethnicity, labor, religion, consumption, and material culture. She examines how these structures and activities changed over time through local processes and interactions with other cultures, highlighting key developments that defined particular eras such as the growth of cities or the creation of a global trading network. Incorporating foragers, farmers and factory workers along with shamans, scribes and secretaries, the book widens and lengthens human history. It makes comparisons and generalizations, but also notes diversities and particularities, as it examines the social and cultural matters that are at the heart of big questions in world history today
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 395 pages)
ISBN:	9781139236133
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781139236133