Adelman Jeremy - Worlds Together, Worlds Apart : A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (9780393532135)

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart has set the standard for five editions for those who want to teach a globally integrated and comparative world history survey course. Just as the dynamic field of world history has evolved, so, too, has Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. Building on the success of the first five editions, the Sixth Edition continues to offer a coherent, cutting-edge survey of the field built around world history stories of significance, which we call Global Storylines. These Global Storylines have the dual benefit of making the material more focused and more manageable for students. They also allow students to more readily make connections and comparisons across time and place since most, if not all, regions of the world are discussed in many of the chapters. Some of our favorite examples of Global Storylines include comparing the worlds first cities, the creation of the Silk Roads, comparing the Han dynasty and the Roman Empire, the rise and spread of universalizing religions, the destruction and recovery of Afro-Eurasia from the Black Death, the impact of New World silver on global trade, the global impact of the Atlantic and industrial revolutions, alternative visions to organize societies during the rise of nineteenth-century capitalism, how nation-states became global empires, and the impact of modern globalization today.

The Sixth Edition brings a number of significant changes, most visibly with the authorial team. Out of that initial team of authors, the authors of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart agreed to reconstitute into a smaller team of three. Elizabeth Pollard, a Roman historian at San Diego State University becomes the lead author of the first volume. For nearly two decades, she has taught the pre-1500 CE world history survey to classes of 30 to 500 students both in person and remotely. Jeremy Adelman, a historian of Latin America and the Atlantic world and the director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University, becomes lead author of the second volume. Adelman teaches a survey in global history from 1300 to the present both at Princeton and online. Tens of thousands of students worldwide have taken his course. Robert Tignor, a distinguished Africanist and the original general editor and the soul behind this book, remains an author in both volumes, bringing his experience and eye for the big picture to bear on the books prose. The changes in our authorial team have also brought departures. We started this book in its first edition as a much larger group, which included Steve Aron, Peter Brown, Ben Elman, Steve Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Sue Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, and Michael Tsin. They were vital to mobilizing the latest specialist scholarship and to integrating a wide range of perspectives into one narrative, and this edition is indebted to their contributions. Our team of three allows us to strengthen the core themes with a unity of voice while remaining committed to the original principles of diversity of perspective.