Connections: A World History, Volume 2

by Edward H. Judge, John W. Langdon

A World History focuses on the connections within and between societies, combining a uniquely comprehensive and consistent map program with a strong pedagogical support and a narrative that students will actually read. Written by historians with years of experience teaching world history, Connections presents both a global and regional perspective, so students can appreciate both the diversity and connectedness of human societies. Concise chapters and a clear engaging narrative make the text accessible to a wide range of students. In addition, because students struggle with geography, the book includes significantly more maps than other texts€”in most cases twice as many€”and great care was taken to make them consistent and exceptionally clear. In each caption, the authors have provided guidance for reading the map and for connecting it to the surrounding text. To f

576 pages, Paperback

First published August 11, 2008

Reviews

[Vrixton Phillips · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the way history textbooks should be written. Full of verve and passion while still getting the necessary information across.

[Lofesti · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great textbook, fun to read even for someone who doesn't care about history. The main draws are the primary sources describing various battles, which feel like a fantasy novel sometimes.

[Prejudice Neutrino · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reading this right now for my history class, and honestly not impressed at all. Sure its cool that they have a lot of modern facets implemented like videos, 3D renders, interactive panoramas, but the quizzes are just pathetic.

All of them are one word answers and most are highly vague and ambiguous to the point where the answer is not even possible to discern. Not to mention that with such vague questions nothing is really learned. The quizzes would be suitable for a 3rd grader, but for a college level textbook?

Also with the online textbook, the response is not instantaneous. I find myself waiting 5-15 seconds for a single page to load and I basically have a supercomputer that can run just about any modern software so its not a hardware problem.

Most times I try and use the text it just will not even work. Somehow their software is so bad that it cannot even handle the few students that access their site. Disgusting that I even had to pay for this. For now I will stick with PDFs.

Somehow we are capable of self landing rockets, but digital textbooks are too difficult.

[Reader2007 · Rating 4 out of 5]

World History. Good but dry.

[Kat Kryisk · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good, as texts go.