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      • Volume 6: The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, Part 2: Patterns of Change
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 May 2015
      09 April 2015
      ISBN:
      9781139022460
      9780521192460
      9781108407748
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139022460
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.94kg, 512 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 514 Pages
      • Subjects:
      American History: General Interest, British History: General Interest, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Regional History after 1500, Global History
      Collections:
      Cambridge Histories - Global History, Cambridge Histories - British & European History, Cambridge Histories - American History, Cambridge Histories - Asian History, Cambridge Histories - Middle East & African Studies
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      The Cambridge World History
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    Subjects:
    American History: General Interest, British History: General Interest, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Regional History after 1500, Global History
    Collections:
    Cambridge Histories - Global History, Cambridge Histories - British & European History, Cambridge Histories - American History, Cambridge Histories - Asian History, Cambridge Histories - Middle East & African Studies
    Series:
    The Cambridge World History
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    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.

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    • 18 - Microhistory and world history
      pp 446-473
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      The term "The Columbian Exchange" was popularized by Alfred W. Crosby's seminal 1972 book, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, which emphasized the transfers of the diseases, plants and animals introduced as a consequence of the continuous communications between the New World-North and South America, and the Old-Europe, Asia and Africa. The Columbian Exchange begins in the first global age, starting in the mid-fifteenth century, and was dominated by Spain and Portugal until the mid-seventeenth century. The Columbian Exchange resulted in the transfer of Old World diseases to the Americas, and vice versa. The time of arrival of the diseases varied depending on the nature of the disease and the mode of transmission. Old World plants preferred by the Europeans took slow and tenuous root in the Caribbean islands. Specimens of many of the animals of the Americas were sent to Europe for display and study, but none became popular food items save for the turkey.

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