World Civilizations: Sources, Images and Interpretations, Volume 2

By Ben R. Finney

Featuring photographs, illustrations, maps, and charts, this collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for world history survey courses offers an introduction to the materials historians use and the interpretations historians make. It also provides introductions, commentaries, guides, and questions. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0073133388
• ISBN13: 9780073133386
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.8"

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It took a little longer than I had hoped for it to get here, but the book was as described.

As a text: less pages to read, yet a good combo of primary and secondary readings

At only 226 pages for volume 1, this is a short collection of readings, which allows the teacher to assign interesting monographs or classics. What the text does it does well, such as to provide handy introductions to the readings, a few questions to consider for each source, provide maps and some pictures, end each chapter with provocative questions, and covers most regions of the world. Each reading is two pages or less,...