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Book SynopsisSince 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cambridge World History series, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the increasingly interconnected history of humankind. The first book examines structures, spaces, and processes within which and through which the modern world was created, including the environment, energy, technology, population, disease, law, industrialization, imperialism, decolonization, nationalism, and socialism, along with key world regions.
Table of Contents1. Introduction Kenneth Pomeranz and John McNeill; Part I. Material Matrices: 2. Energy, population, and environmental change since 1750: entering the anthropocene John McNeill; 3. The economic history of agriculture since 1800 Giovanni Federico; 4. Industrialization Kaoru Sugihara, John McNeill, Kenneth Pomeranz and Merry Wiesner-Hanks; 5. The history of world technology, 1750-present Paul Josephson; 6. A new world of energy Vaclav Smil; Part II. Population and Disease: 7. Demography and population Massimo Livi-Bacci; 8. Population politics since 1750 Alison Bashford; 9. Disease and world history from 1750 Mark Harrison; 10. The politics of smallpox eradication Erez Manela; Part III. Politics: 11. The evolution of international law Tony Arend; 12. On nationalism Aviel Roshwald; 13. Assessing imperialism Danielle Kinsey; 14. Self-strengthening and other political responses to the expansion of European economic and political power Bin Wong; 15. Decolonization and its legacy Prasenjit Duara; 16. Genocide Mark Levene; 17. Communism and fascism Robert Strayer; Part IV. World Regions: 18. The Middle East in world history since 1750 John Voll; 19. East Asia in world history Mark Selden; 20. Latin America in world history Julie Charlip; 21. Africa in world history Frederick Cooper; 22. The United States in world history since the 1750s Ian Tyrrell; 23. The economic history of the Pacific Lionel Frost.
