A Concise History of the World -

Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Cambridge University Press

2015

405 páginas

13h 30m

ISBN-10: 1107694531

This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups, social and gender hierarchies, sexuality, race and ethnicity, labor, religion, consumption, and material culture. She examines how these structures and activities changed over time through local processes and interactions with other cultures, highlighting key developments that defined particular eras such as the growth of cities or the creation of a global trading network. Incorporating foragers, farmers and factory workers along with shamans, scribes and secretaries, the book widens and lengthens human history. It makes comparisons and generalizations, but also notes diversities and particularities, as it examines the social and cultural matters that are at the heart of big questions in world history today.

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Difícil contar em um livro a história do mundo em detalhes, mas o livro condensa tudo em tópicos amplos dividindo tudo em um número de anos e leva você a conhecer e começar a entender várias coisas do mundo atual.

É interessante ver como as sociedades se formaram e o que levou mulheres e homens aos papéis que possuem ao longo do tempo.

Da pra você ler e escolher um tópico que queira se aprofundar pra conhecer mais.

Muito bom.