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Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History BOOK REVIEWS | 269 gain a coherent intellectual framework for grappling with the particulars of individual cultures and civilizations. Proportionately, the pre-human narrative makes up less than one-third of the text, with the remainder telling the human story. The final two-thirds give much more detailed attention to the emergence of agriculture, and the major civilizations around the globe that arose as a result. In such a grand-scale narrative, this might strike some as giving human beings too important a role in the universe. Certainly the space given to human beings contrasts with other recent big history books, many of which deal with the appearance of our species largely as a single event, discussing agriculture and industrialization as parts of general cultural and technological progression. However, the large proportion of this book devoted to humanity and the rise of civilization addresses the real needs of the instructors who could benefit from a textbook such as this. At many schools, instructors are currently teaching big history by enlarging the scope of existing courses under traditional titles such as “world history” or “global studies.” The flexible design of Big History: Between Nothing and Everything accommodates this situation well, providing instructors with precisely http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Review of World Histories Brill

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

Austin, Gareth; Sugihara, Kaoru
Asian Review of World Histories , Volume 2 (2): 6 – Jun 29, 2014
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.12773/arwh.2014.2.2.269
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BOOK REVIEWS | 269 gain a coherent intellectual framework for grappling with the particulars of individual cultures and civilizations. Proportionately, the pre-human narrative makes up less than one-third of the text, with the remainder telling the human story. The final two-thirds give much more detailed attention to the emergence of agriculture, and the major civilizations around the globe that arose as a result. In such a grand-scale narrative, this might strike some as giving human beings too important a role in the universe. Certainly the space given to human beings contrasts with other recent big history books, many of which deal with the appearance of our species largely as a single event, discussing agriculture and industrialization as parts of general cultural and technological progression. However, the large proportion of this book devoted to humanity and the rise of civilization addresses the real needs of the instructors who could benefit from a textbook such as this. At many schools, instructors are currently teaching big history by enlarging the scope of existing courses under traditional titles such as “world history” or “global studies.” The flexible design of Big History: Between Nothing and Everything accommodates this situation well, providing instructors with precisely

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Published: Jun 29, 2014

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