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World History in Documents: A Comparative Reader

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What can I say about a disgruntled young student who does not like history or his professor and takes that out on a really excellent book? Stearns has done a wonderful job in this volume of gathering some very good and interesting primary sources in world history. I particularly liked the documents about women's lives in various eras. The selections are thoughtful, the organization is effective, and it's not overwhelming as it's only a single volume. Very nice job, indeed, and worth considering as a supplementary reader for any world history course.

I purchased this for my school library, hoping that it would be a great reference for students. It says that it is a book with primary source documents... which is somewhat true. The layout of the book and the information about the documents is not presented well. For example, it has several different creation stories from different cultures. THey are just typed out plainly on the pages, no visual breaks, no side panels, nothing of interest and nothing to make the book visually appealling. It basically looks boring and unintersting, and it not easy to navigate. This information could have been presented much better and made more aesthetically pleasing.

This book is pretty informational and does a good job of explaining/summarizing the documents. However, its arranged rather haphazardly and can get really repetitive.

This book was awful. It had nothing of value in it, and my professor was a bumhead.