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.
The Second Edition of this global, comparative reader newly edited by the co-authors of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Concise Edition features added textual and visual sources directly tied to developments discussed in the Worlds Together narrative, a new casebook on Humans and the Environment in the Second Millennium BCE, a deeply discounted package price, and a rich range of global perspectives that set this reader apart.