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Description Offers a range of documents that illustrates civilizations from key stages in world history, with special attention to comparing major societies. For introductory courses in world history. Documents in World History is a thematically organized, authoritative collection of original sources that highlight political, social, cultural and economic issues in world history. The text also provides documents on the hot topics of gender and cultural history.

Revised and updated with over a quarter of the documents new, the sixth edition retains its global emphasis. Standard selections and political coverage have been improved, and attention to Islam and Christianity as well as South Asia have been expanded. Teaching and Learning Experience Personalize Learning- MySearchLab provides engaging experiences that personalize learning and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.

Improve Critical Thinking- Study Questions and Essay Suggestions at the end of each section encourage analysis of change over time and comparison between civilizations, while allowing students to test their understanding of the topics. Engage Students- Visual sources are presented as historical documents with introductions and questions to help students analyze and interpret the images. Support Instructors- MySearchLab and ClassPrep. For the sixth edition, the authors welcome Allison Scardino Belzer, who teaches a wide variety of courses at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. In teaching both halves of world civilization, she focuses on assigning texts that spark a positive response in students – texts that offer concrete knowledge while also inspiring questions.

She developed her interest in history at Vassar College and received her Ph.D at Emory University. Her book Women and the Great War: Femininity Under Fire in Italy (2010) reflects her research interest in gender and cultural history and the history of war. Personalize Learning For over 10 years, instructors and students have reported achieving better results and better grades when a Pearson MyLab™ has been integrated into the course. MySearchLab provides engaging experiences that personalize learning and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.

ClassPrep- This feature collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination and includes PowerPoint slides, streaming audio and video, audio clips for class tests and quizzes and all of the book’s illustrations for creation of interactive lectures. New Documents and Chapter Changes • The following documents are new to the sixth edition: Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, Thomas More’s Utopia, Veronica Franco’s Letter on Courtesans, Elizabeth I of England’s Tilbury Speech, Anna Bijns’ poem Unyoked is Best!, Immanuel Kant’s What is Enlightenment?, Mussolini’s Fascism, Soldier’s account of D-Day (Harold Baumgarten) and Manifesto of Jewish Resistance in Vilna. 32-37) • The chapters Women in Early Modern Europe, Fascism and Soldiers and Civilians in World War II are new to the sixth edition. 42-46) • The chapters Renaissance Europe and Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment have been thoroughly revised. • The authors have restructured the 20 th – 21 st century section to highlight major developments, such as the World Wars. Stearns is a professor of history at George Mason University, where he is currently provost (since January 1, 2000) with almost 40 years of experience as a teacher and administrator. Stearns was the chair of the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and also served as the dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

In addition, he founded and continues to edit the Journal of Social History. Also while at Carnegie Mellon he developed a pioneering approach to teaching world history to undergraduates in addition to mentoring hundreds of graduate students.

Medion Home Cinema 8 0 Serial Port on this page. Besides his long career as a historian, he is active in historical groups such as the American Historical Society, the Society of French Historical Studies, the Social Science History Association and the International Society for Research on Emotion. He attended Harvard College and later received his Ph.D. From Harvard University. In his prolific career as an author and editor, he has written or edited over 110 works of literature. Stearns currently serves as chair of the Advanced Placement World History committee. Gosch is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Gosch began by teaching western civilization courses at UW-Eau Claire, but his scholarship evolved over the years to a broader comparative scholarship in world history, which he introduced to UW-Eau Claire classrooms in 1982.

He also taught courses in the history of Japan, 19th and 20th century Europe and Marco Polo's world, as well as a popular team-taught interdisciplinary course on the Vietnam War, which he developed with a colleague in political science. He has published numerous articles and co-authored several books, including the recent Pre-modern Travel in World History.

Gosch earned his bachelor's degree from Boston University and his master's and doctoral degrees from Rutgers University. Grieshaber currently teaches world history, history of Latin America and history of 20 th century war and peace at Minnesota State University. He received his Ph.D. From the University of North Carolina in 1977.

Allison Scardino Belzer teaches a wide variety of courses at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. In teaching both halves of world civilization, she focuses on assigning texts that spark a positive response in students – texts that offer concrete knowledge while also inspiring questions. She developed her interest in history at Vassar College and received her Ph.D at Emory University. Her book Women and the Great War: Femininity Under Fire in Italy (2010) reflects her research interest in gender and cultural history and the history of war.