Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the PresentRobert Tignor, Assistant Professor of History Jeremy Adelman, Professor of History and Vice Chair for Academic Personnel Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Associate Professor of History Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin W. W. Norton, Incorporated, 2011 M05 31 - 992 pages Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to 19th-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and more. In the Third Edition, the text has been compressed and streamlined to heighten emphasis on world history stories and themes throughout. |