Spodek third teachers edition

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Each of these features is designed to make the text more accessible to students. Collectively, these materials provide a rich, comprehensive, and challenging introduction to the study of world history and the methods and key interpretations of its historians.

The last twelve chapters have been reorganized for clarity and readability and in response to reviewer comments, and the final two chapters dealing with the modern world have been extensively reorganized and rewritten. Chapters One and Five now open with introductions before the first heading, making all chapters consistent in this edition.

Excessive details have been trimmed and many headings reorganized for greater clarity and consistency. Where discussions continued from one chapter to another in the third edition, they have now been consolidated: for example, the Cold War is now discussed in one chapter only, rather than in three; the Soviet Union, too, is addressed in just one chapter. The author has rewritten several Part openers as bridges from one section to the next. Two new How Do We Know?

Within each Part, materials have been updated, revised, and added. Examples of some of the more notable changes and additions include: A discussion of the fossils of early hominids discovered in Chad; additional materials on early urbanization in India and Africa; new evaluations of the decline of the Roman Empire; consideration of the Gnostic gospels and their significance in understanding early Christianity; the assimilation of Islam into African empires in the tenth through the fifteenth centuries.

The third edition Part Five, on world trade, and Part Six, on migration and demography, have been restructured. Part Five is now a single unit on the movement of goods, ideas, and people, while Part Six is devoted to social revolutions. The Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries gets more coverage.

The Industrial Revolution has been placed into a wider context, more clearly setting the stage for the events that began to unfold in the late eighteenth century around the world. As noted, the twentieth century is now given expanded coverage, and divided into two chronological periods, each with its own theme. Throughout the book increased prominence has been given to issues of gender, and every chapter now ends with a What Difference Does It Make?

Haiti : Slave Revolution and the Overthrow of Colonialism, — Independence and Disillusionment in Latin America, — America Elects an African-American President. Pearson offers affordable and accessible purchase options to meet the needs of your students. Connect with us to learn more. Howard Spodek received his B. He received his M. His first trip to India was on a Fulbright Fellowship, —66, and he has spent a total of some seven years studying and teaching in India.

He has been a faculty member at Temple University since , appointed Full Professor in Immediately following this program, he became principal investigator of a program that brought college professors and high school teachers together to reconsider, revise, and, in many cases, initiate the teaching of world history in several of the colleges and universities in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Those projects led directly to the writing of the first edition of the current text In addition he wrote and produced the documentary film, Ahmedabad He has written on his experiences with world history faculty at the college and high school levels in articles in The History Teacher , He has received funding for his research, writing, teaching, and film from Fulbright, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and the Smithsonian Institution.

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