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A true exploration of world history, The World's History links chronology, themes, and geography in eight units, or parts of study, each emphasizing a single theme—origins, cities, empires, religion, trade, migrations, revolutions, and technology. Geographically, each part covers the entire globe, though specific topics place greater emphasis on specific regions. Rich in primary sources—both written and visual—and in data and interpretation, the new edition addresses how historians form, debate, and revise our historical understanding of the world, shows the value of other disciplines in understanding history, and helps students begin to assess their own place in the ongoing history of the world.
- Sales Rank: #979018 in Books
- Published on: 2005-02-13
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.12" h x 1.63" w x 8.74" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 907 pages
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The World's History, The, Combined Volume (3rd Edition)
By F. Anamosa
This is an excellent review of world history. My high school daughter purchased this for her AP World History class, and we will keep and use it as a reference book for the home.
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By Chrissi Blackburn
I purchased this to be able to study history AGAIN as an adult. When I was in school, I never paid much attention to history because I found it boring, and only remembered what I needed for tests. As an adult, trying to remember important events and share knowledge with my children, I struggled. This history book combines all the decades so I have a basic concept on everything and can share that with them.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Recommended Balanced Survey of Social History
By C. Caras
As mentioned in the description, this is a high school text for students in Advanced Placement World History class. I graduated from high school a decade ago but I wanted to read the best and most comprehensive and balanced, single-volume, survey of the most important events/people of world history. I was not disappointed at all. I recommend it for any like-minded individuals that are afraid of getting other "world history" books because they may be too brief or euro-centric.
And while the author covers most of the world's major events and trend changes, one thing he does which I particularly like is his mention of opposing interpretative theories all the while. For example, when covering European colonialism, the author mentions the opinions of those who thought that colonialism benefited both the Europeans, the rich and poor of them, as well as the colonized; and then the author presents the opinion of those who disagree and claim the opposite. The author may then mention a middle-ground opinion, but he finally leaves it up to you to decide or research further. So Mr. Spodek gives the reader a glimpse of what historians do, which is especially helpful if you're really into history or if you're highly opinionated and do not like anyone else to tell you what to think.
At the end of every chapter, the author lists "principle" and "additional" sources he relied upon and suggests, commenting briefly on each one. This is very helpful for further research and also to see what historians rely on most. But do not confuse this with "primary" and "secondary" sources that historians frequently refer; i.e. translated documents from participants versus interpretations from those those who came afterward. On that note I was surprised that none of Will & Ariel Durant's works were mentioned unless it slipped by me. The chapters are also densely illustrated with an excellent choice of paintings, sculptures, photos and maps--chosen to depict the scenes of that era. And it may be interesting to know that Professor Howard Spodek's specialty in history studies is Indian history. Indeed, he was responsible for translating a couple selections of Sanskrit source texts used in the volume. As for the media CD with additional sources, honestly I have not used it.
Obviously, you cannot cover the names of all the kings of the world's history nor all the battles in a single volume. And perhaps it would take a hundred volumes, or a thousand, to adequately cover "the history of humankind" without leaving anything to be desired. So considering this, the author had to skillfully choose what to include and what not to include in his world history. For example, he does not list names of all the world leaders for every country and may even pass by the names of the leaders of the major powers of their times. As for his coverage of wars, the first war that it seemed he followed from battle to battle was World War I. However, even when Mr. Spodek does cover wars or events that we are familiar with, like the slave trade for example, he brings out aspects that we may not have known before. Also, to save room, he covers extraordinarily little of US history--which is fine if you've already studied US history and want to know about the rest of the world and their struggles and contributions (or how little we Americans really did make a difference) until recent times. Also, the author may skip over things American public already has a decent knowledge of through mass media. For example, William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and the struggle to free Scotland from the British in the latter 1200's early 1300's are not mentioned at all.
One may then ask, what WAS covered in 900 pages? For the most part: trends. And by trends I mean economic and trade, cultural, religious, political reform, gender relations, class relations, foreign relations, scientific, etc. And after reading this book, I have a much greater appreciation for this sort of information, since it conveys the true *result* of what some of us may normally think of when we learn about history (kings and battles). So from that angle, you could consider this a social history. A leader may have a political policy enacted, but here we see its effectiveness.
And like other human history books, he begins by discussing early humans, and common theories of human evolution and migration, but tries not to spend too much time here, unlike the author of the Illustrated World History, which is a couple hundred pages shorter, written for a general audience, but painfully detailed in its presentation of human evolution theory and up-to-date skeletal discoveries . Mr. Spodek on the other hand gets to the point much sooner without skimping on early human migration theory.
Of course, as Mr. Spodek's History came closer and closer to the present age, we saw a bit more focus on the Western world, but not at the expense of elsewhere. Just when you read several pages about Europe and think "okay... so what's going on with China now??" then you have many pages discussing Asian, then Central/South American, and African developments.
Do I have any quarrel with any of the content? I am fairly ignorant to most of world history, so I was much the learner throughout and well satisfied with that. Except Islamic theology and history which is my field. And there are a few inaccuracies in the chapter about Islam, but for the most part I was pleased. I don't blame Mr. Spodek personally for this since English resources are difficult to sift through to get a true picture from. One example, the debates between the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, his philosopher advisers from the mu'talizah sect, and Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal. Caliph Ma'moon, the second son of Harun Rashid, wanted to coerce the Muslim world into incorporating a heretical creed that the Quran is God's "created speech" and that God does not speak directly, rather, He creates His words as an autonomous entity. The caliph decided to start with coercing the scholars of Baghdad into agreement, of which the most renowned was Ahmad bin Hanbal. Ma'moon passed away before he could face Ahmad to try to force him to sign this agreement. The next Caliph and his cronies continued the debates and persecution of the Baghdad scholars over this point. Even the transcripts of these debates and the writings of both sides are well known in Arabic sources, especially ibn al-Jawzi's biography of Ahmad, as well as the famous historian Adh-dhahabi's siyar a'laam al-nubalaa. But here the author, Mr. Spodek, claimed the debates were over whether or not the king had the right to interpret the scriptures, or if this right belonged solely to the scholars, and that the Quran debate was later in history. That was definitely not the issue and I've never known any Arab scholar to claim it was, especially since the early caliphs, including Ma'moon himself, his father, and grandfather, were scholars in their own right, but he was adversely affected by some of the philosophy that was recently translated into Arabic and debates between second-rate theologians and Greek philosophers. Another huge inaccuracy which is repeated over and over by western writings about Islam is that there was little care for spreading of the religion during the time of the early caliphate--and that care for religious knowledge began after the "turbulent civil wars". This claim is made as an excuse to categorically reject all early Muslim writings and prophetic traditions as likely being fabled and politically motivated. So what then do Western historians typically take as primary sources? Any document known for sure to be politically motivated and biased and possibly forged. So by that reasoning, something that's definitely bogus at least reflects the emotions of a few people, or else they wouldn't have forged what they did, rather than something that's "possibly bogus" which doesn't tell us the emotions of the common man. So it becomes more psychological than historical. Many of the biggest names of western Islamic scholarship base some of their theories on old Arabic joke books for example, or books with unknown authors. This, while the early caliphs gave great attention towards the spread of traditional knowledge in every city. Muhammad ibn Sa'd, a very early historian and student of the famous historian al-Waaqidi, has an extensive description of these efforts in his famous "al-Tabaqaat al-Kubraa". Western scholars either ignore or are oblivious to some of this and other pivotal anthologies. Further reading and consideration shows that the spread of knowledge and teaching remained largely unaffected by political events of the era, since the spread of orthodox knowledge was a goal the all sides agreed with, and since religious scholars themselves, as many Western writers admit, often enjoyed more renown than the caliphs, and many of them remained aloof from political upheavals. So it's hard to imagine that the scholars tried to appease the caliphs by making up stories, even if there are a few examples here and there from a few lesser renowned "storytellers" doing so, but this doesn't make a case against the thousands of genuine scholars that were against this sort of thing, and who ultimately published what we know today of the first generations of scholarship and history in the Muslim world from the mainstream Muslim perspective.
So if any other reader finds that chapter a bit confusing or difficult to follow and picture, I can understand. As for me personally, the only event that I really felt lost with the first time reading through it in The World's History was the story of the French revolution.
Lastly, it's nearly impossible to be "unbiased" when discussing history. But it is quite an accomplishment for the author Mr.Spodek, if you can read through his summary of World History, and not be able to precisely pinpoint where he leans, whether that's religiously, economically or otherwise.
Highly recommended for all readers curious about the story of humanity and have the time and patience to chug through 900 pages of it. You'll enjoy it.
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