Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World: From 1000 CE to the Present (Fourth Edition)

by Robert L. Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Benjamin A. Elman

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edition of this successful text has been streamlined, shortened, and features a new suite of tools designed to help students think critically, master content and make connections across time and place.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Textbooks, School, World History, Read For School

624 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Scunnered]

Loving this book! I'm currently taking a Coursea free online World History class through Princeton University. This is the text book for the class. Much fun for history lovers like me. BTW, there are currently 70,000 people enrolled in the class.

[Emy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unsatisfying. To me it read much more like an A-Level textbook that one suitable for undergraduate study. Perhaps it's the broad sweeping nature of the coverage. The lack of inline citations and counter arguments also left me exasperated. It was only useful as an end in itself, not as a jumping off point, which is what I would expect of an academic core text.

[Sander Meere · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gebruikt voor het vak Global History. We skipten alle delen over Europa en focusten alleen op wereldgeschiedenis. Had daarom in mijn ogen wel een volle focus daarop mogen hebben, waardoor een symbiotische relatie kon ontstaan tussen dit boek en McKay. Nu komt het gewoon een beetje over als té veel. Al om al een goed studieboek in dezelfde trend en schrijfwijze als McKay (dat is iets goeds i love McKay)

[Tiffany · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't usually read textbooks in my free time, or count them as part of my reading total, but I read this one as part of a Coursera course. I found it to be surprisingly good, and well above average in terms of quality. I've always been interested in history, and am happy to say I learned quite a bit from this book. For casual use, I wouldn't recommend it, but if you're taking a class that requires or even just recommends it, then you can be glad to have one of the better choices out there, in my experience.

[Annie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first textbook for a class that I've read in its entirety. To be fair, for most of my schooling we were given chapters to read.
This is an excellent world history book, written in an engaging style. There are lots of illustrations, photos and maps. It was worth the $75 used I had to pay for it.

[goatmilksoda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book, it was simple, well organized and very direct. I kind of wish there was more attention to pop culture and regular lifestyles, but it's a textbook, it does it's job and gets you interested and touches on the big issues. I guess that's enough. Good book, I'd recommend it to most AP history classes.

[Rachel · Rating 1 out of 5]

The way this textbook was organized…. Those exams were the death of me

[Madeleine]

Surprisingly good for a high school-level textbook.

[Kim Bakos · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a textbook, so don't expect it to be exciting. However, it gives a great overview of the history of the past 800 years or so. I've never taken modern world history, just ancient civilizations and US history, so I certainly learned quite a bit from this book. The pages are the right length to keep you from getting overwhelmed, and the primary sources really put you there to help you understand things from a past perspective.

[Ahmet · Rating 3 out of 5]

I want to read this book for learn something about evolution

[Farida Turakhanova Nael]

Helpful in understanding how the interactions evolved between the continents over the millennia.

[Sarah]

I had to read this whole god damn thing for class and I’ll be damned if I don’t get Goodreads credit for reading something this entire semester when I did not stop reading once all month

[Sam]

school book gonna help w that GR goal 🫡

no rating ofc but i will say this textbook has a v distinct voice and bias which isn’t my fav from an academic standpoint.

[Ethan · Rating 5 out of 5]

one of the best books written on general history!
Highly recommended..

[Linde · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read (the majority of) this textbook for my university World History course (first year of History bachelor). I liked the course overall and this book as well! It comes with a handy online training program with questions on each chapter to keep you up-to-date on the readings! In the later chapters, the western point of view came more to the surface for me and it was really noticeable that the author favoured the story from the generally dominant western perspective, which was a real bummer to me. Nevertheless, I loved learning about world history and this textbook is a really good starting point!

[Enes · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was not a history student. But I also can say that it is the only textbook that I have read for fun even after I finished its lecture in my life. I don’t think it’s much detailed whereas it gives an outlook to each historically important piece of events/people/places.

[dudu · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's okay as a textbook, the content is average.
作为教科书内容就还行8⃣️，内容一般般。

[Derek]

I'm not going to review this one since it was a giant textbook, but I learned quite a bit from it! Technically, I only read 3/4ths of it, but I spent so much time reading that I feel the need to count it for my yearly reading goal.