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ISBN 10: 1319109756
ISBN 13: 978-1319109752
Author: Robert Strayer, Eric Nelson
Ways of the World is one of the most successful and innovative textbooks for world history. This 2-in-1 textbook and reader includes a brief-by-design narrative that focuses on significant historical developments and broad themes in world history. With keen consideration of the needs of their student audience, authors Robert W. Strayer and Eric W. Nelson provide an insightful, big picture synthesis that helps students discern what matters most in world history–patterns and variations on both global and regional levels and continuity and change over time. With the same personal touch, the authors guide students to consider primary and secondary source evidence the way historians do.Available for free when packaged with the print book, the popular digital assignment options for this text bring skill building and assessment to a highly effective level. The active learning options come in LaunchPad, which combines an accessible e-book with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded learning tool that—when assigned—helps ensure students read the book; the complete companion reader with Thinking through Sources digital exercises that help students build arguments from those sources; and many other study and assessment tools. For instructors who want the easiest and most affordable way to ensure students come to class prepared, Achieve Read & Practice pairs LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and our mobile, accessible Value Edition e-book, in one easy-to-use product.
Ways of the World with Sources Volume 1 A Brief Global History 4th Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Thinking through Sources: History before Writing: How Do We Know?
Source 1.1 A Gathering and Hunting Woman in the Twentieth Century
Source 1.2 Paleolithic Rock Art: A Hunting Scene
Source 1.3 Neolithic Art: A Goddess Figure?
Source 1.4 Otzi the Ice Man
Source 1.4A Artist’s Reconstruction of Otzi
Source 1.4B Otzi the Ice Man’s Preserved Body
Source 1.5 Monumental Stone Construction in the Neolithic Era
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: The Transition to Agriculture
Voice 1.1 Jared Diamond on the Decision to Farm
Voice 1.2 Yuval Noah Harari on the Myth of Progress through Agriculture
Chapter 2 Thinking through Sources: Social Life in the First Civilizations
Source 2.1 Law and Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Source 2.2 The Standard of Ur
Source 2.2A Peace Panel, ca. 2500 B.C.E.
Source 2.2B War Panel, ca. 2500 B.C.E.
Source 2.3 The Occupations of Old Egypt
Source 2.4 The Social Relationships of Egyptian Agriculture
Source 2.5 Social Life in Ancient China
Source 2.6 Socializing with Ancestors
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: Sumerian Society
Voice 2.1 Lauren Ristvet on Sumerian Specialization
Voice 2.2 Samuel Kramer on Scribes and Schools
Chapter 3 Thinking through Sources: History before Writing: How Do We Know?
Source 3.1 The Triumphs of the Persian Emperor Darius
Source 3.1A Behistun Monument: The Sculpture |
Source 3.1B Behistun Monument: The Inscription
Source 3.2 In Praise of Athenian Democracy
Source 3.3 Depicting the First Roman Emperor
Source 3.3A Augustus Statue, First century B.C.E.
Source 3.3B Augustus Statue: The Breastplate, First century B.C.E.
Source 3.4 Governing a Chinese Empire
Source 3.5 A Chinese Emperor Prepares for His Death
Source 3.5A Qin Shihuangdi Funerary Complex
Source 3.5B Archer
Source 3.5C Bronze Horse-Drawn Cart
Source 3.6 Governing an Indian Empire
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: Emperors in the Second-Wave Era
Voice 3.1 Yuri Pines on the Authority and Power of a Chinese Emperor
Voice 3.2 Kevin McGeough on the First Roman Emperor
Chapter 4 Thinking through Sources: The “Good Life” in Asian Cultural Traditions
Source 4.1 Reflections from Confucius
Source 4.2 Filial Piety Illustrated
Source 4.3 A Daoist Perspective on the Good Life
Source 4.4 Reflections from the Hindu Scriptures
Source 4.5 Reflections from Jesus
Source 4.6 Toward “Mature Manhood”
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: The Historical Jesus
Voice 4.1 Reza Aslan on Jesus as Zealot
Voice 4.2 Marcus Borg on Jesus as Spirit Person
Chapter 5 Thinking through Sources: Patriarchy and Women’s Voices
Source 5.1 A Greek Expression of Patriarchy
Source 5.2 Gravestone Image of a Greek Husband and Wife
Source 5.3 An Indian Expression of Patriarchy
Source 5.4 A Chinese Woman’s Instructions to Her Daughters
Source 5.5 An Alternative to Patriarchy in India
Source 5.6 Roman Women in Protest
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: Elite Greek Women and the Public Sphere
Voice 5.1 Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on the Veil in Ancient Greece
Voice 5.2 Joan Breton Connelly on Priestesses and Public Life in Ancient Greece
Chapter 6 Thinking through Sources: Art and the Maya Elite
Source 6.1 A Royal Couple from Yaxchilan
Source 6.2 Mayan Prisoners of War and Their Captors
Source 6.3 Nourishing the Gods
Source 6.4 Sport as Recreation and Ritual
Source 6.5 A Maya Ruler Relaxing
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: Comparing the Maya with Other Civilizations
Voice 6.1 Charles C. Mann on Mayan Political Culture
Voice 6.2 J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill on Mayan Agriculture
Chapter 7 Thinking through Sources: Life and Travel on the Silk Roads
Source 7.1 Dangers and Assistance on the Silk Roads
Source 7.2 Travel on the Silk Roads
Source 7.3 Stopping at a Caravanserai
Source 7.4 Buddhism on the Silk Roads
Source 7.4A Regulations for a Community of Monks
Source 7.4B Faxian | A Record of the Buddhist Kingdoms
Source 7.5 Christianity on the Silk Roads
Source 7.6 Letters from the Silk Roads
Source 7.6A From a Soldier on Guard Duty
Source 7.6B From an Abandoned Wife
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: Assessing the Importance of the Silk Roads
Voice 7.1 Valerie Hansen on the Least Traveled Route
Voice 7.2 Xinru Liu on the Importance of the Silk Roads
Chapter 8 Thinking through Sources: The Making of Japanese Civilization
Source 8.1 Japanese Political Thinking
Source 8.2 The Uniqueness of Japan
Source 8.3 Social Life at Court
Source 8.4 Japanese Zen Buddhism
Source 8.5 The Way of the Warrior
Source 8.5A Shiba Yoshimasa | Advice to Young Samurai
Source 8.5B Imagawa Ryoshun | The Imagawa Letter
Source 8.6 Samurai and the “Arts of Peace”
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: China’s Influence in the Making of Japanese Civilization
Voice 8.1 Milton Walter Meyer on China’s Influence on Japan’s First Imperial State
Voice 8.2 Matthew Stavros on China’s Influence on the Capital City of Kyoto
Chapter 9 Thinking through Sources: Voices of Islam
Source 9.1 The Voice of Allah
Source 9.2 The Voice of the Prophet Muhammad
Source 9.3 The Voice of the Law
Source 9.4 The Voice of the Sufis
Source 9.4A Inscription in Rumi’s Tomb
Source 9.4B Rumi | Divani Shamsi Tabriz
Source 9.4C Rumi | Mathnawi
Source 9.5 Islamic Practice in West Africa
Source 9.6 Men and Women at Worship
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: The Significance of Sufism
Voice 9.1 John Esposito on Sufi Spirituality
Voice 9.2 Nile Green on Sufi Power
Chapter 10 Thinking through Sources: The Crusades as Cultural Encounter
Source 10.1 A Western Christian Perspective: Pope Urban II
Source 10.2 Jewish Experience of the Crusades
Source 10.3 Muslim Perspectives on the Crusades
Source 10.4 Jerusalem and the Crusades in European Art
Source 10.4A The Looting of Jerusalem,
Source 10.4B How Jerusalem Was Captured by Saladin
Source 10.5 A Byzantine Perspective on the Crusades
Source 10.6 Admiration and Accommodation across the Religious Divide
Source 10.6A Usmah Ibn Munqidh | Christian Piety and Muslim Piety
Source 10.6B Fulcher of Chartres | The Latins in the East
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: The Pope’s Agenda for the First Crusade
Voice 10.1 David Levine on Success in Reining in Noble Violence
Voice 10.2 Malcolm Barber on Religious Reconciliation and the First Crusade
Chapter 11 Thinking through Sources: Living and Dying during the Black Death
Source 11.1 The Black Death in the Islamic World
Source 11.2 The Black Death in Western Europe
Source 11.3 The Black Death in Byzantium
Source 11.4 Religious Responses in the Islamic World
Source 11.5 Picturing Religious Responses in the Christian World
Source 11.5A The Flagellants
Source 11.5B A Culture of Death
Source 11.6 The Black Death and European Jews
Source 11.7 A Government’s Response to the Plague
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: Winners and Losers in Europe after the Plague
Voice 11.1 Harry Miskimin on the Rural Economy after the Plague
Chapter 12 Thinking through Sources: Early Encounters, First Impressions
Source 12.1 Cadamosto in a West African Chiefdom
Source 12.2 Vasco da Gama at Calicut, India
Source 12.3 Celebrating da Gama’s Arrival in Calicut
Source 12.4 Columbus in the Caribbean
Source 12.5 Columbus Engraved
Doing History
Historians’ Voices: Assessing Christopher Columbus and His Legacy
Voice 12.1 Zvi Dor-Ner on Christopher Columbus’s Legacy
Voice 12.2 Charles Mann on Remembering Columbus
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