A focus on the human experience helps frame the broad scope of world history into a clear and concise learning experience for students. It is also supported by engaging digital tools, such as interactive maps, that encourage critical thinking and retention of key course concepts. Using the twin themes of traditions and encounters, the text emphasizes both the distinctive patterns of historical development within individual societies and the profound results of interactions between different societies.
Exploring the historical record of cross-cultural interactions and exchanges, Traditions and Encounters places the world of contemporary globalization in historical context. The book helps students understand the world's major societies and shows how the interactions of these societies affect history throughout the world.
The authors tell a coherent and digestible story of the past that is not weighed down by excessive detail, so instructors are able to incorporate additional readings. This edition provides an updated map program as well as the latest scholarship. It also moves Primary Source Investigator online, improving access for students to work with primary sources.
An effective part structure organizes developments into seven eras of global history, putting events into perspective and creating a framework for cross-cultural comparisons, while the strong themes of traditions the formations and development of the world's major societies and encounters cross-cultural interactions and exchanges bring focus to the human experience and help turn the giant story of world history into something more manageable.
With an engaging narrative, visual appeal, extended pedagogy, and a strong emphasis on critical thinking, this concise version offers enhanced flexibility and affordability without sacrificing the features that have made the complete text a favorite among instructors and students alike.
Connect students to the experience of history. Connect students to success in history. At McGraw-Hill, we have dedicated the past few years to deepening our understanding of student and instructor experience.
Employing a wide array of research tools including surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic studies, we've identified areas in need of improvement to provide an opportunity for greater learning and teaching experiences.
Instructors gain insight into students' engagement and understanding as students develop a base of knowledge and construct critical thinking skills. Chapter-opening vignettes and a lively narrative keep students turning the page while the adaptive questioning for each chapter and the personalized study plan for each individual student help students prepare for class discussions and course work. The text's strong hallmark themes of traditions the formations and development of the world's major societies and encounters cross-cultural interactions and exchanges bring focus to the human experience and help turn the giant story of world history into something more manageable to teach and learn.
At the same time, an effective part structure organizes developments into seven eras of global history, putting events into perspective and creating a framework for cross-cultural comparisons.
The history of 20th-century philosophy is often written as an account of the development of one or both of these schools, as well as their overt or covert mutual hostility. What is often left out of this history, however, is the relationship between the two European schools and a third significant philosophical event: the birth and development of pragmatism, the indigenous philosophical movement of the United States.
Through a careful analysis of seminal figures and central texts, this book explores the mutual intellectual influences, convergences, and differences between these three revolutionary philosophical traditions. This edition provides an updated map program as well as the latest scholarship.
It also moves Primary Source Investigator online, improving access for students to work with primary sources. Traditions and Encounters new Advanced Placement edition offers an inclusive vision of the global past -- one that is meaningful and appropriate for the interdependent world of contemporary times.
Through new and revised chapter-level and part-level features, the hallmark twin themes of traditions and encounters emerge in greater clarity than ever before. Integrated AP features and primary documents enhance the learning experience. The text's strong hallmark themes of traditions the formations and development of the world's major societies and encounters cross-cultural interactions and exchanges bring focus to the human experience and help turn the giant story of world history into something more manageable to teach and learn.
At the same time, an effective part structure organizes developments into seven eras of global history, putting events into perspective and creating a framework for cross-cultural comparisons. With an engaging narrative, visual appeal, extended pedagogy, and a strong emphasis on critical thinking, this concise version offers enhanced flexibility and affordability without sacrificing the features that have made the complete text a favorite among instructors and students alike.
A focus on the human experience helps frame the broad scope of world history into a clear and concise learning experience for students. It is also supported by engaging digital tools, such as interactive maps, that encourage critical thinking and retention of key course concepts.
An effective part structure organizes developments into seven eras of global history, putting events into perspective and creating a framework for cross-cultural comparisons, while the strong themes of traditions the formations and development of the world's major societies and encounters cross-cultural interactions and exchanges bring focus to the human experience and help turn the giant story of world history into something more manageable.
It explored the grand scheme of world history as a product of real-life human beings pursuing their individual and collective interests. It also offered a global perspective on the past by focusing on both the distinctive characteristics ofindividual societies and the connections that have linked the fortunes of diff erent societies.
It has combined a clear chronological framework with the twin themes of traditions and encounters, which help to make the unwieldy story of world history both more manageable and more engaging.
Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best selling book for the course, Traditions and Encounters.
The text is unique in approach: it covers the world as a whole, examining the formations and development of the world's major societies "traditions" , and exploring cross-cultural interactions and exchanges that have been some of the most effective agents of change in history "encounters". In addition, the authors tell a coherent story of the past that is not weighed down by too much detail, enabling instructors to incorporate additional readings.
The third edition is accompanied by the Primary Source Investigator CD, offering an easy and affordable way for instructors to get students working with primary sources. Covers the world as a whole, examining the formations and development of the world's major societies traditions , and exploring cross-cultural interactions and exchanges that have been some of the most effective agents of change in history encounters.
This book tells a story of the past that is not weighed down by too much detail. Skip to content. Traditions Encounters. Author : Jerry H. Bentley,Herbert F. Traditions Encounters Book Review:. Traditions Encounters Volume 1 From the Beginning to Traditions Encounters Volume 2 from to the Present.
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