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The human journey : a concise introduction to world history
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- ISBN: 9781442213524 (cloth : alk. paper)
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- ISBN: 9781442213548 (electronic)
- ISBN: 144221354X (electronic)
- ISBN: 9781442213845 (cloth v. 1 : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1442213841 (cloth v. 1 : alk. paper)
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- ISBN: 9781442213876 (cloth : v. 2 : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1442213876 (cloth : v. 2 : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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xxiv, 429 p. : ill., maps. ; 26 cm. - Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The long prologue : from 14 billion years ago -- The brave new world of city, state, and pasture : from 3000 BCE -- Eurasian classical cultures and empires : 600 BCE--200 CE -- The spread of new ways in Eurasia : 200 CE--1000 CE -- The making of an Afro-Eurasian network : 1000 CE--1450 CE -- Parallel worlds of inner Africa, the Americas, and Oceania : before 1450 -- Empires and encounters in the early modern era : 1450-1750 -- The roots of globalization : 1450-1750 -- Breaking out and the first modern societies : 1750-1900 -- The great disturbance by global empires : 1750-1940 -- The modern world and global realignments : the past century -- Beneath the surface of globalization and modernity : the past century. |
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| Subject: | World history Textbooks |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | D 21 .R45 2012 | 30775305488281 | General Collection | Available | - |
CHOICE_Magazine Review
The Human Journey : A Concise Introduction to World History
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Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
In this thorough text, Reilly (Raritan Valley CC) provides an accessible survey of human history. Books of this type often tend either toward macro-level narratives of global processes or "cafeteria-style" approaches, surveying one geographic region after another. Reilly attempts to strike a balance, treating regional histories while also providing a global narrative. The result is generally successful, and will provide a useful introductory text for readers with little background and teachers seeking a refresher informed by recent scholarship. The author uses comparison to good effect, introduces readers to key historiographical controversies, and contextualizes debates about the "rise of the West" and its consequences. However, he could have developed his driving theme of the "human journey" more explicitly throughout the text. It is a useful device, framing human history as a conquest of a "global frontier" that in recent years has reached a tipping point of sorts, particularly given increasingly apparent ecological consequences: "For much of our human journey," Reilly concludes, "we could go somewhere else....Our journey has now taken us everywhere we can go. If we are to continue, we must do it together." Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. M. A. Soderstrom Aurora University
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