Global and world history address the deep structural changes that have shapedhuman experience. Many are material related to environmental and climaticalteration... » 

Global and world history address the deep structural changes that have shapedhuman experience. Many are material related to environmental and climaticalteration to the domestication of livestock and development of agricultureto technology to disease and to variations in human immunity reproductionand physiology. Others are social and cultural touching upon issues ofmigration trade language development and differentiation institutions ofenslavement and of freedom traditions of marriage and childrearing theemergence of largescale political organization from early kingdoms to vastempires republics and federations and the management of war and peace. Todeal with such challenging issues global historians draw upon new techniquesof analysis and comparison. But they also continue venerable traditionsinherited from the earliest civilizations of narrating the past on the mostcomprehensive and significant scale possible. This book examines the longsearch for an integrated human story and particularly the points at whichrapid changes of philosophy and perspective in the twentieth centurytransformed the historical disciplines. It provides the perfect introduction toglobal history for students and scholars alike. «