Fernandez-Armesto, F: Oxford Illustrated History of the Worl

Introduction; Part I: Children of the Ice; 1 Clive Gamble: Humanity From the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of an Adaptive Species; 2 Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: The Mind in the Ice: Art and Thought before Agriculture; Part II: Of Mud and Metal; 3 Martin Jones: Into a Warming World; 4 Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: The Farmers' Empires: Climax and Crises in Agrarian States and Cities; Part III: The Oscillations of Empires; 5 John Brooke: Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to the Black Death; 6 David Northrup: Intellectual Traditions: Philosophy, Science, Religion, and the Arts, 500 BCE - 1350 CE; 7 Ian Morris: Growth: Social and Political Organizations, 1000 BC-AD 1350; Part IV: The Climatic Reversal; 8 David Northrup: A Converging World: Economic and Ecological Encounters, 1350-1815; 9 Manuel Lucena-Giraldo: Renaissances, Reformations, and Mental Revolutions: Intellect and Arts in the Early Modern World; 10 Anjana Singh: Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs, Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World; Part V: The Great Acceleration; 11 David Christian: The Anthropocene Epoch: The Background to Two Transformative Centuries; 12 Paolo Luca Bernardini: The Modern World and Its Demons: Ideology and After in Arts, Letters and Thought, 1815-2008; 13 Jeremy Black: Politics and Society in the Kaleidoscope of Change: Relationships, Institutions, and Conflicts from the Beginnings of Western Hegemony to the American Supremacy; Epilogue; Further Reading; Index

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His work, which has covered many fields and disciplines and has appeared in twenty-seven languages, has won him numerous awards, including the John Carter Brown Medal, a World History Association Book Prize (for Pathfinders, 2007), Spain's national prizes for geography and foodwriting, and, most recently, the Gran Cruz de la Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio, Spain's highest award for services to education and the arts.