Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Second Edition) (Vol. 1: Beginnings Through the Fifteenth Century)
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (690 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 039392548X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 545 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has written and edited five books, including Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World (1999), which won the best book prize in Atlantic history from the American Historical Association. Robert Tignor (Princeton University) is Professor Emeritus and the Rosengarten Professor of
Excellent. Aaron Rutledge Unlike the previous reviewers I found Tignor's text to be a highly lucid and comprehensive account of world history. If you have not read much history than you will have to be patient at first with the writing style as it is chock full of information and concepts that can seem disconnected an quite abstract. Yet, if you have the perseverance. AznAngelGurl said Textbook for people with open minds. The book is great in that it goes beyond what the black death did in EUROPE. The book is written as a text book and contains maps, pictures, and tons of useful information. The greatest part of this book is that it presents educational findings in a textbook style so that even high schoolers can read it without feeling too overwhelmed. Also,. "Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World" according to Tina Advocat. I am not usually excited about textbooks, especially history ones, but I found this book:Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World, very entertaining and useful.
Oxford University) is currently the chair of the history department at Princeton University and the Walter S. She is the author of Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, AD 1-600 (1988); Silk and Religion: an Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600-1200 (1996); Connections across Eurasia: Transportation, Communication, and Cultural Exchange on the Silk Roads, co-authored with Lynda Norene Shaffer (2007); A Social History of Ancient India (1990 in Chinese). He previously taught at London University and the University of California, Berkeley. Oxford University) is the Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. With Gyan Prakash, he introduced Princeton’s first course in world history nearly twenty years ago. He was previously at the University of Pennsylvania, where he chaired the Graduate Group in Ancient History. Professor Xinru Liu dedicates her l
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 connecti