A History of World Societies, Value Edition, Volume 2

A History of World Societies, Value Edition, Volume 2

Author: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2017-09-22

Total Pages: 1244

ISBN-13: 1319070272

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The lively and accessible narrative and the hallmark focus on social and cultural history that has made A History of World Societies one of the most successful textbooks for the world history course is now available in a lower price format. The two-color Value Edition includes the full narrative, the popular "Individuals in Society" feature, and select images and maps.


A History of World Societies, Combined Volume

A History of World Societies, Combined Volume

Author: John P. McKay

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2011-10-05

Total Pages: 1198

ISBN-13: 0312666918

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A History of World Societies introduces students to the global past through social history and the stories and voices of the people who lived it. The book’s regional and comparative approach helps students understand the connections of global history while providing a manageable organization. With global connections and comparisons, documents, features and activities that teach historical analysis.


A History of World Societies, Value Edition, Volume 1

A History of World Societies, Value Edition, Volume 1

Author: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2017-09-22

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 1319070264

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The lively and accessible narrative and the hallmark focus on social and cultural history that has made A History of World Societies one of the most successful textbooks for the world history course is now available in a lower price format. The two-color Value Edition includes the full narrative, the popular "Individuals in Society" feature, and select images and maps.


Sources of World Societies, Volume 2

Sources of World Societies, Volume 2

Author: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2020-08-26

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1319304001

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Sources of World Societies is an expertly crafted collection of historical sources with a variety of global, cultural perspectives from around the world.


A History of World Societies, Volume 2

A History of World Societies, Volume 2

Author: John P. McKay

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2014-09-12

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 1457696355

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Long praised by instructors and students for its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to social history, the tenth edition of A History of World Societies includes even more built-in tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition features thoroughly revised chapters by new author and Latin American specialist Jerry Dávila, an expanded primary source program in the text and online, and the best and latest scholarship throughout. The tenth edition presents LaunchPad, a new intuitive ebook and course space with LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and a wealth of activities and assessments that help students make progress toward learning outcomes. LaunchPad features primary source activities, map and visual activities, adaptive and summative quizzing, and a wealth of optional resources, including carefully developed Online Document Projects for each chapter with auto-graded exercises.


Sources of World Societies, Volume 1

Sources of World Societies, Volume 1

Author: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2020-08-26

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1319303595

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Sources of World Societies is an expertly crafted collection of historical sources with a variety of global, cultural perspectives from around the world.


The Dawn of Everything

The Dawn of Everything

Author: David Graeber

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0374721106

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations


A World of Babies

A World of Babies

Author: Judy S. DeLoache

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-05-18

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780521664752

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'Manuals' for new parents illustrating many models of babyhood, shaped by different values and cultures.


World History

World History

Author: Eugene Berger

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.


The History of Cartography: Cartography in prehistoric, ancient, and medieval Europe and the Mediterranean

The History of Cartography: Cartography in prehistoric, ancient, and medieval Europe and the Mediterranean

Author: John Brian Harley

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13:

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By developing the broadest and most inclusive definition of the term "map" ever adopted in the history of cartography, this inaugural volume of the History of Cartography series has helped redefine the way maps are studied and understood by scholars in a number of disciplines. Volume One addresses the prehistorical and historical mapping traditions of premodern Europe and the Mediterranean world. A substantial introductory essay surveys the historiography and theoretical development of the history of cartography and situates the work of the multi-volume series within this scholarly tradition. Cartographic themes include an emphasis on the spatial-cognitive abilities of Europe's prehistoric peoples and their transmission of cartographic concepts through media such as rock art; the emphasis on mensuration, land surveys, and architectural plans in the cartography of Ancient Egypt and the Near East; the emergence of both theoretical and practical cartographic knowledge in the Greco-Roman world; and the parallel existence of diverse mapping traditions (mappaemundi, portolan charts, local and regional cartography) in the Medieval period. Throughout the volume, a commitment to include cosmographical and celestial maps underscores the inclusive definition of "map" and sets the tone for the breadth of scholarship found in later volumes of the series.