This work covers from 1500 to the present (Chapters 23-40). This groundbreaking world history text has, in its first edition, become a market leader by offering a fresh, global perspective on the past. The text is unique in approach; covering the world as a whole, examining the formations and development of the world's major societies ("traditions"), and also systematically exploring cross-cultural interactions and exchanges that have been some of the most effective agents of change in all of world history("encounters"). In addition, the authors have taken great care in constructing a coherent vision of the past that is not weighed down by a mass of detail, thus enabling instructors to incorporate additional readings of their choosing. Finally, the text emphasizes that historical processes work themselves out through the lives and experiences of individual human beings, opening each chapter with an account of individual experiences that illuminate themes in that chapter. The second edition includes scholarship updates throughout and revisions to organization and content.
- ISBN10 0072565004
- ISBN13 9780072565003
- Publish Date 1 July 2002 (first published 1 July 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 April 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Language English