Worlds Together Worlds Apart

A compelling global storytelling approach to world history

A compelling global storytelling approach to world history

The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw connections and comparisons across time and place. Streamlined chapters, innovative pedagogy, and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible and relevant yet. NEW interactive learning resources develop history skills and assess comprehension of major themes and concepts.

The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw connections and comparisons across time and place. Streamlined chapters, innovative pedagogy, and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible and relevant yet. NEW interactive learning resources develop history skills and assess comprehension of major themes and concepts.

A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories.

Global connections and comparisons, now more accessible and interactive

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edition of this successful text has been streamlined, shortened, and features a new suite of tools designed to help students think critically, master content and make connections across time and place.

The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is now available in a Concise Edition. Drawing even clearer connections and comparisons across time and place, this re-imagined text and companion adaptive learning program provide a wealth of new tools that will enhance reading comprehension and develop fundamental critical thinking and history skills.

In this second edition, the book's non-Eurocentric approach continues with expansions of the original eleven world history "turning point" stories from the modern period to include ten more "turning point" stories from the earlier periods of world history. From the history of the world's first cities built on the great rivers of Afro-Eurasia, to the formation of the Silk Road, to the rise of nation-states, and the story of modern globalization, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart provides students with the stories that changed history and enables them to make the connections they need in order to better understand how the world came to be what it is today.

A World History textbook specifically designed for the new AP(R) World History curriculum.

The most global text for world history isalso unmatched in drawing connections and comparisons across time and place. Witha new compact format, engaging design, and built-in reader, this edition improvesaccessibility while strengthening history skill development. Expanded coverageof environmental history, new interactive History Skills Tutorials, a newInteractive Instructor's Guide, and InQuizitive, Norton's award-winningadaptive learning tool, support a state of the art learning experience.

The most global approach to world history, now more streamlined and accessible.

A distinctive, primary source reader with the same global emphasis as the full and concise editions of its companion survey text.

This resource provides students with review materials for each chapter.

A Concise Edition with clear connections, comparisons, and sources in every chapter.

This resource provides students with review materials for each chapter.

"A compelling global storytelling approach to world history. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart provides a compelling chronological foundation for world history. A global story frames each chapter, making thousands of years of history less daunting for students and instructors. New lead authors and master teachers Jeremy Adelman and Elizabeth Pollard distill cutting-edge scholarship with a focus on introductory students. By supporting students in making comparisons and connections across the narrative, primary sources, images, maps, and in the text and online resources, Worlds Together is global history's most effective teaching tool"--