The Cambridge World History: Volume 6, The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, Part 2, Patterns of Change

"The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history."--Publisher History Front Matter 1 Contents 7 Figures 10 Maps 12 Tables 13 Contributors 14 Preface 15 Part 1 - Migrations & Encounters 19 1 - Gobal Migrations 21 2 - Patterns of Warefare 47 3 - The First Global Dialogues 68 4 - Legal Encounters 98 Part 2 - Trade, Exchange & Production 119 5 - The Columbian Exchange 121 6 - The Slave Trade & the Africa 153 7 - The Organization of Trade in Europe & Asia 178 8 - Entrepreneurs, Families & Companies 208 9 - Silver in a Global Context 231 10 - Dutch & English Trade to the East 258 11 - Plantation Societies 281 12 - Industrious Revolutions 301 Part 3 - Religion & Religious Change 329 13 - The Scholarly Discovery of Religion 331 14 - Christianity in Europe & Overseas 352 15 - Islam in the Early Modern World 376 16 - Religious Change in East Asia 405 Part 4 - Questions of Method 441 17 - On Early Modern Historiography 443 18 - Microhistory & World History 464 Index 492 "The Cambridge World History is an authoritative new overview of the dynamic field of world history. It covers the whole of human history, not simply history since the development of written records, in an expanded time frame that represents the latest thinking in world and global history. With over two hundred essays, it is the most comprehensive account yet of the human past, and it draws on a broad international pool of leading academics from a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Reflecting the increasing awareness that world history can be examined through many different approaches and at varying geographic and chronological scales, each volume offers regional, topical, and comparative essays alongside case studies that provide depth of coverage to go with the breadth of vision that is the distinguishing characteristic of world history."--Publisher