The best-selling textbook for teaching and learning global history
Instructors have made Worlds Together, Worlds Apart the #1-selling collegiate survey because its global-by-design narrative builds each chapter around big themes in world history that allow most of the regions to be discussed in each chapter.
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New coverage of Indigenous peoples and other scholarship
Updates focus on cutting-edge global topics that students care about, such as gender, the environment, migration, and technology, and expanded coverage of Indigenous history throughout.
“Global Themes and Sources” features act as an in-text reader
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is the only text featuring sources drawn from across all global regions in every chapter. Each feature consists of 5 or 6 primary source documents and images from around the globe organized around a major subject from each chapter.
NEW “Global View” interactive map features
In the NEW Norton Illumine Ebook, the “Global View” interactive map feature converts the popular two-page map from each chapter into a dynamic, animated tour of the world.
About the Authors
Jeremy Adelman has lived and worked in seven countries and on four continents. For nearly three decades, he was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and the director of the pedagogically innovative Global History Lab at Princeton University, which includes his renowned on-line History of the Modern World Since 1300 course taught to students around the world, including to students living in refugee camps in central and eastern Africa. He now has joined the faculty of University of Cambridge, which will also be the new home of the Global History Lab.
Elizabeth Pollard is Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence at San Diego State University, where she researches gender in the ancient Mediterranean world and teaches courses in world history, Roman history, and witchcraft. Pollard is also the founding co-director of the Center for Comics Studies and has served as the assessment coordinator for the Arts and Science Division. She has also served as consultant to the College Board.
Best Value & Options
Full Seventh Edition
The large-format Full Edition provides the complete text, primary pedagogy and features, rich visuals, and primary sources.
Concise Fourth Edition
The Concise Edition provides a 20 percent shorter narrative with more pedagogical support built around Core Learning Objectives to guide reading. All the Primary Sources from the Full Edition are also included.
Companion Reader
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A Companion Reader Third Edition is an affordable collection of more than 150 classic and contemporary primary sources, including longer excerpts and four global casebooks, that align with the table of contents of the main text.
Image Credits: (Adelman) Jeremy Adelman; (Pollard) Elizabeth Pollard
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