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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The World: A History, Combined Volume (2nd Edition) (MyHistoryLab Series) Availability: Not yet published
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 909 EAN: 9780136061472 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0136061478 Label: Prentice Hall Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1152 Publication Date: February 12, 2009 Publisher: Prentice Hall Studio: Prentice Hall Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The World interweaves two stories–of our interactions with nature and with each other. The environment-centered story is about humans distancing themselves from the rest of nature and searching for a relationship that strikes a balance between constructive and destructive exploitation. The culture-centered story is of how human cultures have become mutually influential and yet mutually differentiating. Both stories have been going on for thousands of years. We do not know whether they will end in triumph or disaster. There is no prospect of covering all of world history in one book. Rather, the fabric of this book is woven from selected strands. Readers will see these at every turn, twisted together into yarn, stretched into stories. Human-focused historical ecology—the environmental theme—will drive readers back, again and again, to the same concepts: sustenance, shelter, disease, energy, technology, art. (The last is a vital category for historians, not only because it is part of our interface with the rest of the world, but also because it forms a record of how we see reality and of how the way we see it changes.) In the global story of human interactions—the cultural theme—we return constantly to the ways people make contact with each another: migration, trade, war, imperialism, pilgrimage, gift exchange, diplomacy, travel—and to their social frameworks: the economic and political arenas, the human groups and groupings, the states and civilizations, the sexes and generations, the classes and clusters of identity.
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 Rating:  - Great style, quirky, skewed, originalFirst of all, whatever you think of the way he pursues history, the author is without question a great writer and a great mind, and this distinguishes the book from most of the history texts used secondary and university settings. It is entertaining and incisive. The typical textbook written by the committee/groupthink method pales in comparison with regard to style and sophistication. However, like the previous reviewer, I found this book has issues as a comprehensive text. It aims ... Read More Rating:  - Not really a history bookWhen I bought this book, I was expecting to obtain a high-quality world hisotry book. Instead, I got what is essentially a very long commentary. The author does discuss a lot of history, but much of the discussion is opinion-based rather than fact-based. For instance, I was trying to read a section on World War I. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered World War I, isn't even mentioned! Instead, the discussion on the world wars focuses on the general impact this ... Read More 
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