The World: A Brief History, Combined Volume - Softcover

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

3.61

80 ratings by Goodreads

9780136009214: The World: A Brief History, Combined Volume

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136009212 ISBN 13: 9780136009214

Publisher: Pearson, 2007

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

The World: A Brief History gives students the whole story. Prentice Hall is proud to offer The World: A Brief History–the new brief version of The World: A History adapted by author Felipe Fern�ndez-Armesto himself. The use of The World: A Brief History offers added flexibility in teaching World History, allowing instructors to supplement the text with additional readers or other material of their choice. And because the brief text was written by Fern�ndez-Armesto himself, it continues to offer the holistic, narrative approach to history that has made the comprehensive text successful at schools across the nation.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:

Praise for The World

“Those students who read The World with the care it deserves will not only gain a rich appreciation of the astonishing trajectory of our species and the biosphere that nourished us; they will also find themselves thinking deeply about issues likely to dominate the global politics of the next few decades.”

David Christian, The Journal of Global History

“No other text does as good a job as The World in giving students an understanding of global connections, and providing them with a solid framework to compare the cultural, political and social histories of different civilizations, societies and states.”

Steve Ortega, Simmons College

My students sound Fern�ndez-Armesto’s style readable and entertaining. Several noted that it was unlike any history textbook they had ever seen. The color maps and photos are excellent, and the story at the beginning of each chapter helped draw the students into each period.

Matt Hopper, California Polytech State University

“Fern�ndez-Armesto has chosen maps and pictures that stimulate debate and questions, and which also illuminate the topics at hand.”

Chad Ross, East Carolina University

“The World’s seamless integration of social, cultural, political, economic, and geographic considerations allows for flexible pedagogy and the course emphasis to shift and unfold as desired by the instructor.”

Karen Kimball, University of Maine–Machias

“The World not only treats the appropriate issues of a comparative, global approach to world history, it does so in a style that is convincing, clearly structured, and a pleasure to read.”

Donald Abbott, San Diego Mesa College

“The World provides excellent models and examples of how the arts can be integrated into historical investigation by providing and analyzing specific artifacts in their cultural context. Moreover, it integrates nomadic peoples into the larger human experience and demonstrates the variety of human experience other texts neglect. Finally The World includes numerous sources that offer comparative, contemporary views of events and peoples that spark lively classroom discussions.”

Marie Hooper, Oklahoma City University

About the Author:

About Felipe Fern�ndez-Armesto:

Felipe Fern�ndez-Armesto holds the Principe of Asturias chair of Spanish Civilization at Tufts University where he also directs the Pearson Prentice Hall Seminar Series in Global History. Fern�ndez-Armesto is a member of the faculty of history at Queen Mary College, University of London, and is on the editorial board of the History of Cartography for the University of Chicago Press, the editorial committee of Studies in Overseas History (Leiden University), and the Journal of Global History. He also serves on the Council of the Hakluyt Society and the English Committee of PEN. Recent awards include a Premio Nacional de Investigaci�n (Sociedad Geogr�fica Espa�ola) in 2003, a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and a Union Pacific Visiting Professorship at the University of Minnesota (1999–2000). He won the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum in 1995 and the John Carter Brown Medal in 1999.

The author, coauthor, or editor of over 25 books and numerous papers and scholarly articles, Fern�ndez-Armesto’s work has been translated into 22 languages. His books include Before Columbus; The Times Illustrated History of Europe; Columbus; Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years (the subject of a ten-part series on CNN); Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature; Near a Thousand Tables; The Americas; Humankind: A Brief History; Ideas That Changed the World; The Times Atlas of World Exploration; and The Times Guide to the Peoples of Europe. Two forthcoming works are Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America and The Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration.