Ways of the World : A Brief Global History /
Robert W. Strayer
Ways of the World : A Brief Global History / - Boston : Bedford / St. Martin's, c2009. - xlvii, 800 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-712) and index.
Preface -- Maps -- Special features -- Prologue: From Cosmic History to Human History --Part One. First things first: beginnings in history, to 500 B.C.E. -- Part Two. The Classical era in world history, 500 B.C.--500 C.E. Part Three. An Age of accelerating connections, 500-1500. -- Part Four. The Early modern world, 1450-1750 -- Part Five. The European moment in world history, 1750-1914 -- Part Six. The Most recent century 1914-2008.
Ways of the World is the ideal textbook for your redesigned AP® World History classroom. Like the AP® course it supports, Ways of the World focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history. Authors Robert Strayer and Eric Nelson provide a thoughtful and insightful synthesis that helps students see the big picture. Each chapter then culminates with collections of primary sources organized around a particular theme, issue, or question, allowing students to consider the evidence the way historians do.
9781319113179
WORLD HISTORY--TEXTBOOKS
D 21 .S87 2009
Ways of the World : A Brief Global History / - Boston : Bedford / St. Martin's, c2009. - xlvii, 800 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-712) and index.
Preface -- Maps -- Special features -- Prologue: From Cosmic History to Human History --Part One. First things first: beginnings in history, to 500 B.C.E. -- Part Two. The Classical era in world history, 500 B.C.--500 C.E. Part Three. An Age of accelerating connections, 500-1500. -- Part Four. The Early modern world, 1450-1750 -- Part Five. The European moment in world history, 1750-1914 -- Part Six. The Most recent century 1914-2008.
Ways of the World is the ideal textbook for your redesigned AP® World History classroom. Like the AP® course it supports, Ways of the World focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history. Authors Robert Strayer and Eric Nelson provide a thoughtful and insightful synthesis that helps students see the big picture. Each chapter then culminates with collections of primary sources organized around a particular theme, issue, or question, allowing students to consider the evidence the way historians do.
9781319113179
WORLD HISTORY--TEXTBOOKS
D 21 .S87 2009
