World Civilizations: The Global Experience: AP Edition - Hardcover

Stearns, Peter N.; Adas, Michael; Schwartz, Stuart B.; Gilbert, Marc J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0132206994 ISBN 13: 9780132206990

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

Synopsis

The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history-since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies, while also assessing the development of major societies. Presenting social and cultural as well as political and economic aspects, the book examines key civilizations in world history. World Civilizations balances this discussion of independent developments in the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of global contact.

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The primary goal of World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Third Edition is to present a truly global history--one that both discusses the development of the world's leading civilizations and also emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies. The book examines all the world's civilizations, including those in the Western tradition but also those civilizations sometimes neglected in world history texts--for example, the nomadic societies of Asia, Latin America, and the nations and states of the Pacific Rim. World Civilizations balances this discussion of independent developments in all the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of international contact. MARKET Appropriate for anyone interested in World History.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0132206994
• ISBN 13: 9780132206990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 877