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Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Volume 1: A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind through the Black Death, Second edition

By Stephen Kotkin , Peter Brown , Gyan Prakash , Xinru Liu , Stephen Aron , Robert Tignor , Jeremy Adelman , Benjamin Elman , Suzanne Marchand , Holly Pittman , Brent Shaw , Michael Tsin

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2008
ISBN
039392548X, 9780393925487, 9780393113556
Open Library ID
OL10157916M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
84 MB (87885770 bytes)
Edition
Second Edition
Pages
595\595
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

True to its title, this uniquely integrated text highlights the stories and themes in world history that tied cultures and regions together, and in some cases, drove them apart.In this second edition, the book's non-Eurocentric approach continues with expansions of the original eleven world history "turning point" stories from the modern period to include ten more "turning point" stories from the earlier periods of world history. From the history of the world's first cities built on the great rivers of Afro-Eurasia, to the formation of the Silk Road, to the rise of nation-states, and the story of modern globalization, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart provides students with the stories that changed history and enables them to make the connections they need in order to better understand how the world came to be what it is today.

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