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Product Identifiers
PublisherWadsworth
ISBN-10049556902X
ISBN-139780495569022
eBay Product ID (ePID)10038310342
Product Key Features
Number of Pages624 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWorld History, Volume I
SubjectGeneral, World
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
AuthorWilliam J. Duiker, Jackson J. Spielvogel
Subject AreaHistory
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight43.3 Oz
Item Length10.8 in
Item Width8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number6
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
ReviewsA comprehensive and thorough world history text complete with comparative history, documents, graphics—a one-stop world history curriculum., A comprehensive and thorough world history text complete with comparative history, documents, graphics'a one-stop world history curriculum., This is a well organized text that offers an integrated global perspective. I recommend it because of its concise summations, readability, useful sidebars, and enticing visuals., Duiker & Spielvogel is a very engaging, accessible, complete and up-to-date text. Students will take away from this book the idea that history does not consist of facts to be memorized but interpretations to be discussed and debated., A comprehensive and thorough world history text complete with comparative history, documents, graphics--a one-stop world history curriculum., The Duiker/Spielvogel book is a wonderful chronological survey of world history that employs a comparative approach to help students see across time and space to better understand world cultures. The book is well written and it has a set of resources within the text that allows it to stand alone without many ancillaries.
Table Of ContentPart I: THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS AND THE RISE OF EMPIRES (PREHISTORY TO 500 C.E.).1. The First Civilizations: The Peoples of Western Asia and North Africa. 2. Ancient India.3. China in Antiquity.4. The Civilization of the Greeks.5. The First World Civilization: Rome, China, and the Emergence of the Silk Road.Part II: NEW PATTERNS OF CIVILIZATION (500-1500 C.E.).6. The Americas.7. Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam.8. Early Civilizations in Africa.9. The Expansion of Civilization in Southern Asia.10. The Flowering of Traditional China.11. The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.12. The Making of Europe.13. Crisis and Recovery: The Byzantine Empire and Cross-Cultural Encounters.Part III: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW WORLD PATTERNS (1500-1800).14. New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market.15. Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building.16. The Muslim Empires.17. The East Asian World.18. The West on the Eve of a New World Order.
SynopsisNoted teachers and scholars William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel present a balanced, highly readable overview of world history that explores common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time. Thorough coverage of political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history is integrated into a chronological framework to help students gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures in society. This edition of WORLD HISTORY continues to take a global approach to world history, with an emphasis on analytical comparisons between and among cultures throughout history. This approach helps students link events together in a broad comparative and global framework, thereby placing the contemporary world in a more meaningful historical context.
