The Global Experience provides students with up-to-date, global, and high interest readings with a social history focus. Offering a global perspective of world history, this collection provides a concise, easy-to-read selection of documents and secondary readings.
Stuart B. Schwartz is Professor of History at Yale University and the former Master of Ezra Stiles College.
He studied at Middlebury College, where he received his undergraduate degree, and the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. He then went on to study Latin American History at Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. (1968).
He is one of the leading specialists on the History of colonial Latin America, especially Brazil and on the history of Early Modern expansion.
This was a college class requirement for a World History class, and it had a 12 page paper attached to it. So this book brings me anxiety. However, there are some very interesting passages about significant portions of history, such as the Holocaust. It could be a good reference.