The Oxford History of the World

Book Overview

bHistories you can trust./b

Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can t attain.

The Oxford History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192884026
• ISBN13: 9780192884022
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 5.1" x 7.4"