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Worlds together, worlds apart : a history of the world from the beginnings of humankind to the present

Author: Robert L Tignor
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : Fourth editionView all editions and formats
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Worlds together, worlds apart, the most engaging world history textbook in a generation, will help you succeed in your survey course. Inside this book you will find a host of highly useful study tools integrated into the text's new Before and After You Read This Chapter pedagogy, designed to help you master core content and develop critical thinking and history skills. Key pedagogy features include focus questions,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: History
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert L Tignor
ISBN: 9780393922073 0393922073 9780393123760 0393123766
OCLC Number: 854609153
Description: xlvii (various pagings) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Contents: Volume 1. Beginnings through the fifteenth century / Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Xinru Liu, Holly Pittman, Brent Shaw. Becoming human --
Rivers, cities, and first states, 4,000-2,000 BCE --
Nomads, territorial states, and micro societies 2,000-1,000 BCE --
First empires and common cultures in Afro-Eurasia 1200-350 BCE --
Worlds turned inside out, 1000-350 BCE --
Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian world, 350 BCE-250 BCE --
Han dynasty China and imperial Rome, 300 BCE-300 CE --
The rise of universal religions, 300-600 CE --
New empires and common cultures, 600-1000 CE --
Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE --
Death and recovery in Afro-Eurasia 1350-1600. Volume B. 600 to 1850 / Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Stephen Kotkin, Suzanne Marchand, Gyan Prakash, Michael Tsin. Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE --
Death and recovery in Afro-Eurasia 1350-1600 --
Contact, commerce, and colonization (1450's-1600) --
Worlds unsettled (1600-1750) --
Cultures of splendor and power (1600-1780). Volume C. 1750 to the present / Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Stephen Kotkin, Suzanne Marchand, Gyan Prakash, Michael Tsin. Reordering the world, 1750-1800 --
Alternative visions of the nineteenth century --
Nations and empires, 1850-1914 --
Unsettled world, 1800-1914 --
Of masses and visions of the modern, 1910's-1930's --
The three world order, 1940-1975 --
Globalization, 1975-1999 --
2001-The present.
Responsibility: Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin.

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