{"product_id":"the-oxford-illustrated-history-of-the-world-9780198752912","title":"The Oxford Illustrated History of the World","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eImagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can t attain.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Illustrated History of the World\u003c\/em\u003e encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFelipe Fernández-Armesto, \u003cem\u003eWm. P. Reynolds Professor of History, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFelipe Fernández-Armesto\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003ePathfinders\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50485745877266,"sku":"9780198752912","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7cda21cb-7179-4089-b3bf-549a4de73d7e.jpg?v=1730410099","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-oxford-illustrated-history-of-the-world-9780198752912","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}