Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, "Cengage Advantage Books: The Earth and Its Peoples, Fifth Edition", offers readers the complete "The Earth and Its Peoples, Fifth Edition", text in an affordable format. This two-color version of the text includes the complete core text, but with fewer maps, photos, and boxed features for a manageable length in a new smaller trim size for easy portability. "The Earth and Its Peoples, Fifth Edition", presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power. This truly global text for the world history survey course employs fundamental themes of 'environment and technology' and 'diversity and dominance' to explore patterns of human interaction with their surroundings and with each other. The authors' approach reveals how humanity continues to shape and be shaped by the environment and how dominant structures and traditions are balanced and challenged by alternate beliefs. Special emphasis is given to technological development and how it underlies all human activity.
This title is available in the following split options: "Cengage Advantage Books: The Earth and Its Peoples, Fifth Edition" (Chapters 1-34), ISBN: 978-0-495-90226-3; Volume I: "To 1550, Fifth Edition" (Chapters 1-16), ISBN: 978-0-495-90370-3; and, Volume II: "Since 1500, Fifth Edition" (Chapters 16-34), ISBN: 978-0-495-90288-1.
- ISBN10 0495902268
- ISBN13 9780495902263
- Publish Date 5 March 2010 (first published 1 October 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 November 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
- Edition 5th Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 928
- Language English