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By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia

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By (author): Barry Cunliffe

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century AD. An unashamedly 'big history', it charts the development of European, Near Eastern, and Chinese civilizations and the growing links between them by way of the Indian Ocean, the silk Roads, and the great steppe corridor (which crucially allowed horse riders to travel from Mongolia to the Great Hungarian Plain within a year). Along the way, it is also the story of the rise and fall of empires, the development of maritime trade, and the shattering impact of predatory nomads on their urban neighbours. Above all, as this immense historical panorama unfolds, we begin to see in clearer focus those basic underlying factors - the acquisitive nature of humanity, the differing environments in which people live, and the dislocating effect of even slight climatic variation - which have driven change throughout the ages, and which help us better understand our world today. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1166g
  • Dimensions: 205 x 247mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Sep 2017
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780199689187

About Barry Cunliffe

Barry Cunliffe taught archaeology in the Universities of Bristol and Southampton and was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2008 thereafter becoming Emeritus Professor. He has excavated widely in Britain (Fishbourne Bath Danebury Hengistbury Head Brading) and in the Channel Islands Brittany and Spain and has been President of the Council for British Archaeology and of the Society of Antiquaries a Governor of the Museum of London and a Trustee of the British Museum. He is currently a Commissioner of English Heritage. His many publications include The Ancient Celts (1997) Facing the Ocean (2001) The Druids: A Very Short Introduction (2010) and Britain Begins (2012) all also published by Oxford University Press. He received a knighthood in 2006.

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