Professors, contact your bookstore for bookstore price. In Brief, Fourth Edition seeks to show how different civilizations developed in a global context, and then encountered the various forces of contemporary life. The brevity of this text allows instructors to take advantage of additional readings. In Brief is to present the big picture, to facilitate comparison and assessment of change, and to highlight the major developments in the world's history. Finally, this text also presents the global interactions of major civilizations so that students can compare and assess changes.
Students get an opportunity to see that the discipline is focused on actively debating the past.
Chapter openers called Focal Points frame each chapter by raising key questions and thereby setting learning goals. In Brief is the most accessible, most affordable world history text available in the market. Its brevity allows instructors and students flexibility about what additional readings will be included in their study of world history. The text focuses only on big picture topics so students understand major themes and developments in world history rather than memorizing an array of unconnected facts. The text is organized chronologically by civilizations allowing for easy and orderly understanding by students.