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[Ebook PDF] Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (Vol. 1), 5th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-0393624823
ISBN-10: 039362482X

Authors: Robert Tignor (Author), Jeremy Adelman (Author), Peter Brown (Author), Benjamin Elman (Author), Stephen Kotkin (Author), Gyan Prakash (Author), Brent Shaw (Author)

Global connections and comparisons, now more accessible

The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw connections and comparisons across time and place. Streamlined chapters, innovative pedagogy, and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible and relevant yet. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.

PREFACE
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart has set the standard for four editions for those who want to teach a globally integrated world history survey course. Just as the dynamic field of world history evolves, so, too, has Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. Building on the success of the first four editions, the Fifth Edition continues to offer a highly coherent, cutting-edge survey of the field built around world history stories of significance that make it possible for students to readily make connections and comparisons across time and place and make the teaching of the course more manageable for instructors (for example, the
building of the Silk Road, the spread of the Black Death across Afro-Eurasia, the impact of New World silver on global trade, and alternative ways to organize societies during the rise of nineteenth-century capitalism). The Fifth Edition is the most accessible to date. Many of the chapters were substantially reorganized and streamlined to place greater emphasis on the main chapter ideas and amplify comparisons and connections—the book’s greatest strength. The new edition will be the most relevant yet for students. They will find increased coverage on numerous topics, but in particular a topic students care a lot
about: the environment’s role in world history. The Fifth Edition pays considerable attention to the role of climate in producing radical changes in the lives of humans. For example, a long-term warming of the globe facilitated the domestication of plants and animals and led to an agricultural revolution and the emergence of settled societies.
In the seventeenth century, the dramatic drop in global temperatures, now known as the Little Ice Age, produced political and social havoc and led to civil wars, population decline, and regime change all around the globe. These are the new focuses of Chapters 1 and 13. Indeed, all chapters have been substantially revised, not because they were inadequate when originally written, but because the
recent studies of comparative and global historians have transformed our understanding of the history of the world. The Fifth Edition is also the most interactive to date. Lead media author Alan Karras (University of California, Berkeley) has brought together an outstanding media team to develop the comprehensive ancillary package for the Fifth Edition, substantially increasing the learning and teaching support available to students and instructors.
• New Inquisitive, Norton’s adaptive quizzing platform, uses interactive questions and guided feedback to support students’ understanding of each chapter’s focus questions.
• New History Skills Tutorials combine video and interactive activities to provide students with a framework for analyzing a variety of sources.
• New Primary Source Exercises in the Course pack provide ready-made quizzes to assess students’ ability to analyze images and documents tied to each chapter.
• New Story Maps break complex maps into a sequence of five annotated screens that focus on the story behind the geography.
Since work began on Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, world history has gained even more prominence in college classrooms and historical studies. Courses in the history of the world now abound, often replacing the standard surveys of European history and western civilization overviews.
Graduate history students receive training in world history, and journals routinely publish studies in this field. A new generation of textbooks was needed to help students and instructors make sense of this vast, complex, and rapidly evolving field. We believe that Worlds Together, Worlds Apart remains the most current, cutting-edge, engaging, readable, interactive, and useful text available for all students of world history. We also believe that this text, one that has advanced the teaching of this field, could only have grown out of the highly collaborative effort of a team of scholars and teachers rather than the more typical.
single- or two-author efforts. Indeed, the idea to build each chapter around stories of world history significance and the execution of this model grew out of our monthly team meetings and our joint writing efforts during the development stage. As a team-driven text, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart also has the advantage of area experts to make sure the material is presented accurately, which is always a challenge for the single- or two-author texts, especially in world history. Finally, our book reads with a single voice, due to the extraordinary efforts of our general editor and leader, Robert Tignor, who with every edition makes the final major sweep through the text to make sure that the voice, style, and level of detail are consistent throughout. Building on these distinctive strengths, we have worked hard and
thoughtfully to make the Fifth Edition of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the best edition so far. While there are many exciting additions to the main text and support package, we have made every effort to remain true to our original vision.