Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional sta

From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the

The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided

Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with “lived religion” in contemporary an

A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities.