World Civilizations: Sources, Images and Interpretations, Volume 1 - Softcover

Sherman, Dennis; Grunfeld, A. Tom; Rosner, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073127590 ISBN 13: 9780073127590

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2005

Synopsis

Photographs, illustrations, maps, charts, and texts are celebrating the arrival of a larger size and beautiful colors to the fourth edition of World Civilizations: Sources, Images, and Interpretations. This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for world history survey courses offers a broad introduction to the materials historians use and the interpretations historians make.

This text also provides introductions, commentaries, guides, and questions, making it a truly valuable source for world history courses. The selections and accompanying notes, drawn from a vast spectrum of approaches, provide insight into how historians work and place the material in a context that furthers readers’ understanding.

About this title

From the Publisher

Pedagogical Guides'Three new sections designed as guides to using primary, visual, and secondary sources have been added to the first chapter of each volume.
New Scholarship'Fifteen secondary sources have replaced older sources, reflecting historical scholarship over the past fifteen years.
Update'New material, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries, covering all areas, including Canada has been included.
Balanced Coverage'This anthology offers a unique blend of primary, secondary, and visual sources that compliment all the main texts in World history.
Pedagogy'Each chapter has interpretive introductory material, questions to consider, and chapter ending questions.
Social'Sherman includes a strong mixture of sources on women's history and social history.
Flexibility'A variety of shorter documents is included, allowing professors flexibility.

About the Author

Dennis Sherman is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York. He received his B.A. (1962) and J.D. (1965) degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. (1970) from the University of Michigan . . He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris (1978-79; 1985). He has received the Ford Foundation Prize Fellowship, the Council for Research on Economic History fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include A Short History of Western Civilization, 8th edition (co-author); Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 5th edition; World Civilizations: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 2nd Edition (co-author); a series of introductions in the Garland Library of War and Peace; several articles and reviews on nineteenth-century French economic and social history in American and European journals, and short stories on literary reviews.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0073127590
• ISBN 13: 9780073127590
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 256