Robert Tignor

Stephen Aron

Jeremy Adelman

True to its title, this uniquely integrated text highlights the storiesand themes in world history that tied cultures and regions together,and in some cases, drove them apart. In this second edition, the book'snon-Eurocentric approach continues with expansions of the originaleleven world history 'turning point' stories from the modern period toinclude ten more 'turning point' stories from the earlier periods ofworld history. From the history of the world's first cities built onthe great rivers of Afro-Eurasia, to the formation of the Silk Road, tothe rise of nation-states, and the story of modern globalization, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart provides students with the stories that changed history and enablesthem to make the connections they need in order to better understandhow the world came to be what it is today.

A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

The essays in this volume confront stereotypical images of merchants as men, and sometimes women, who stood outside their cultures, beyond history. Ranging across eras, from medieval business practices to modern hucksterism of autobiographical morality tales, the authors of this volume find that merchants cannot be separated from their times. From the (Ottoman) Middle East to the (American) Midwest, the contributors to Trading Cultures emphasize the embeddedness of merchants in geographically and culturally specific contexts. The trading careers reconstructed in this book dwell on mercantile concerns with honor as much as profit, trust as much as truck, and, above all, familial connections as much as individuated enterprise.

The Worlds of Western Merchants : Essays on Authority, Objectivity, and Evidence

Trading Cultures

Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author and longtime Californian Stephen Aron tracks "the West" from the building of the Cahokia Mounds around 900 AD to the post-World War II migration to California. His Very Short Introduction stretches the chronology, enlarges the geography, and varies the casting, providing a history of the American West that is longer, larger, and more complicated than popular culture has previously suggested. It is a history of how portions of North America became Wests, how parts of these became American, and how ultimately American Wests became the American West. Aron begins by describing the expansion of Indian North America in the centuries before and during its early encounters with Europeans. He then explores the origins of American westward expansion from the Seven Years' War to the 1830s, focusing on the western frontier at the time: the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. He traces the narrative - temporally and geographically - through the discovery of gold in California in the mid-nineteenth century and the subsequent rush to the Pacific Slope. He shows how the passage of the Newlands Reclamation Act in 1902 brought an unprecedented level of federal control to the region, linking the West more closely to the rest of the United States, and how World War II brought a new rush of population (particularly to California), further raising the federal government's profile in the region and heightening the connections between the West and the wider world. Authoritative, lucid, and ranging widely over issues of environment, people, and identity, this is the American West stripped of its myths. The complex convergence of peoples, polities, and cultures that has decisively shaped the history of the American West serves as the key interpretive thread through this Very Short Introduction. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The American West: A Very Short Introduction

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Robert L. Tignor

Stephen Kotkin

Gyan Prakash

Holly Pittman

Michael Tsin

Suzanne Marchand

Brent Shaw

Benjamin Elman

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

A History of the World: from 1000 CE to the Present

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

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: From 1000 CE to the present

Alan Karras

Elizabeth Pollard

Clifford Rosenberg

A streamlined and simplified global history

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources

Peter Brown	

Stephen Kotkin	

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.

Fourth International Student Edition

World Together, Worlds Apart

'How the West Was Lost' tracks the overlapping conquest, colonization, and consolidation of the trans-Appalachian frontier. Not a story of paradise lost, this is a book about possibilities lost. It focuses on the common ground between Indians and backcountry settlers which was not found.

The Transformation of Kentucky From Daniel Boone to Henry Clay

How the West Was Lost

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

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