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This book encapsulates a long period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents recent historiography and new analytical tools used to analyse multi-dimensional themes involved in social formations in different parts of the world. This is a reader-friendly book with simple and lucid language and fulfils the pressing needs of students studying the course on Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the ancient and medieval world at various universities across the world. The summary, key words, and representative questions at the end of each chapter would assist in revision and a better understanding of the issues dealt with therein. A detailed chapter-end reference would enable and motivate the readers to engage in further studies for a better understanding of the themes.
This book will be of interest to students, researchers, and academics in the area of history - ancient and medieval world history, in particular, and anthropology. It will also be an interesting read for general readers interested in knowing about the ancient and medieval world.
List of contents
1. Evolution of Humans; Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Cultures 2. The Neolithic Cultures: Food Production and Animal Husbandry in Asia and Europe 3. Bronze Age Civilisations- I (Mesopotamia And Egypt) 4. Bronze Age Civilisations-II (Shang and Minoan) 5. Nomadism in Central and West Asia: Advent of Iron and its Implications 6. Ancient Greece
About the author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rakesh kumar is a graduate in Mechanical engineering, followed by post-graduation MBA in operation management. Author has a 16 year of experience in various leading automobile companies in India with core expertise in R&D/Design and engineering/New product development.
He has also engineered his own website "sharmarakesh.in" to support the Book sales and to empower the learning process via video tutorials cum practice sessions. The person who buys my book will get complementary access to all video tutorials listed on the website.
During his career, he has developed more than 200 sheet metal complicated parts with the help of metal forming simulation. This book is written with the profound experience of the author and is a practical guide to use the metal forming simulation in the real world problems.
Author is also granted with 3 patents on his designs and 7 utility patents
Summary
This book encapsulates a period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents recent historiography and new analytical tools used to analyze multi-dimensional themes involved in social formation.
