Features
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart presents a global, thematic approach built around stories of global significance, enabling students to readily grasp historical comparisons.
Inclusion of every region of the world throughout the chronological narrative, rather than each region having its own chapter in each period. This integrative approach encourages students to think of world history as a dynamic process and allows them to more easily identify comparisons and connections across regions.
A non-Eurocentric world history built around stories and themes, highlighting cultural exchange, changing power relationships, and resistance to global historical forces. This writing strategy allows the authors to uniquely integrate global trends—to argue that the rise of the West was never inevitable nor was it ever complete—and challenges students to see world history from different perspectives.
Three major new themes in the second edition enhance coverage of gender, migration, and the environment.
Pedagogical tools that are carefully crafted to enable students to think analytically about world history concepts and themes, including a stellar map program with enhanced captions, study questions, in-text focus question boxes, newly designed chronologies, pull quotes, and primary source documents.