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Assembled by award-winning community college teacher and distinguished world historian Kevin Reilly, the documents in the best-selling Worlds of History bring history alive for students. Students read voices from the distant and more recent past that address topics and issues -- like patriarchy, love and marriage, and imperialism -- of enduring interest and relevance. Ranging widely across regions and cultures, each chapter takes up a major theme and asks students to examine it in the context of two or more cultures, encouraging them to make cross-cultural connections and comparisons. The flexible comparative and thematic framework easily accommodates the variety of approaches instructors bring to teaching world history while supporting the general goal of cultivating critical thinking skills.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

KEVIN REILLY is a professor of humanities at Raritan Valley College and has taught at Rutgers, Columbia, and Princeton Universities. Co-founder and first president of the World History Association, Reilly wrote The West and the World and has edited a number of works in world history including Readings in World Civilization and the World History syllabus collection. As a specialist in immigration history, Reilly was tapped to create the "Modern Global Migrations" globe at Ellis Island's Museum of the History of Immigration. His work on the history of racism led to the editing of Racism: A Global Reader. He was a Fulbright scholar in Brazil (1989) and Jordan (1994). In 1992, the Community College Humanities Association named him "Distinguished Educator of the Year." Currently he serves on the governing Council of the American Historical Association.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Paperback: 510 pages
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's; Second Edition edition (February 23, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312402015
ISBN-13: 978-0312402013
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #397,534 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for teachers and lovers of history, December 6, 2008

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This review is from: Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader, Volume One: To 1550 (Paperback)

I use this book in teaching Ancient World history, and I find it has two good qualities that make it very useful.

First, Reilly has selected an appropriate array of primary texts from the classical and pre-modern world. Some of them are the usual suspects: selections from Hammurabi's Code, the famous Egyptian scribe's justification of his profession, Pericles' funeral oration, Ibn Battuta, Confucius, the Bhagavad Gita, and so on. In several cases, though, he has paired similar texts or texts dealing with one event from different angles, which allows students to explore the challenges of doing history. For example, he provides a selection from the Analects and then a portion of Ban Zhao's essay on women; he gives us Raymond's account of his conquest of Jerusalem, and then that of an Arab historian.

Second, analytical essays on the String Revolution, Rome and Han China compared, and so on, really give good perspective on themes and problems in the study of the ancient world.

Not every selection will be useful for every class or of interest to every reader - and I can't imagine teaching from this book alone - but it's a very good resource nevertheless.

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5.0 out of 5 stars good book, February 26, 2007

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lots of short essays, interesting stuff...biased viewpoint..its great!

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