The Essential World History (6th Edition) by Jackson J. Spielvogel, William J. Duiker

By Jackson J. Spielvogel, William J. Duiker

Review

Explore universal demanding situations and reports that unite the human earlier and establish key international styles through the years with the fundamental global historical past, 6e. This short assessment of worldwide heritage covers political, fiscal, social, spiritual, highbrow, cultural, and armed forces historical past built-in right into a chronologically ordered synthesis that can assist you achieve an appreciation and realizing of the detailed personality and improvement of person cultures in society. you should use the book's international process and its emphasis on analytical comparisons among cultures to hyperlink occasions jointly in a extensive comparative and worldwide framework that areas the modern global in a extra significant historic context.

"The book’s preface and "Themes for figuring out international History" in actual fact lay out the authors’ imaginative and prescient, and the authors enforce it brilliantly. Duiker and Spielvogel are to be recommended for his or her concise, crisp sort and their sincere interpretation of proof. … Duiker and Spielvogel have an cutting edge and unique method of international historical past, and how they painting the slow shift from remoted societies to an international society works super well."

"The author’s procedure is constant through the textual content, they usually have accomplished their acknowledged objective of adopting a ’global method of international background whereas whilst trying to do justice to the unique personality and improvement of person civilizations and areas of the world.’"

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About the Authors

William J. Duiker is liberal arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian stories on the Pennsylvania country college. A former U.S. diplomat with carrier in Taiwan, South Vietnam, and Washington, D.C., he got his doctorate in a ways jap background from Georgetown collage. At Penn country, he has written broadly at the background of Vietnam and sleek China, together with the hugely acclaimed COMMUNIST highway TO strength IN VIETNAM (revised variation, Westview Press, 1996), which was once chosen for a decision awesome educational publication Award in 1982?1983 and 1996?1997. different books are CHINA AND VIETNAM: THE ROOTS OF clash (Berkeley, 1987), U.S. CONTAINMENT coverage AND THE clash IN INDOCHINA (Stanford, 1995), SACRED warfare: NATIONALISM AND REVOLUTION IN A DIVIDED VIETNAM (McGraw-Hill, 1995), and HO CHI MINH (Hyperion, 2000), which used to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. whereas his study specialization is within the box of nationalism and Asian revolutions, his highbrow pursuits are significantly extra diversified. He has traveled broadly and has taught classes at the historical past of communism and non-Western civilizations at Penn country, the place he was once provided a school student Medal for extraordinary success within the spring of 1996.

Jackson J. Spielvogel is affiliate Professor Emeritus of heritage on the Pennsylvania country college. He bought his Ph.D. from The Ohio country college, the place he really good in Reformation historical past less than Harold J. Grimm. His articles and experiences have seemed in journals resembling Moreana, magazine of normal schooling, Catholic old assessment, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, and American old evaluation. He additionally has contributed chapters or articles to The Social heritage of Reformation, THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE: A DICTIONARY guide, the Simon Wiesenthal heart Annual of Holocaust reports, and Utopian experiences. His paintings has been supported by means of fellowships from the Fulbright origin and the basis for Reformation study. At Penn kingdom, he helped inaugurate the Western Civilization direction, in addition to a favored direction on Nazi Germany. His publication HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY was once released in 1987 (7th variation, 2013). he's additionally the writer of WESTERN CIVILIZATION, first released in 1991 (9th version, 2015). Professor Spielvogel has received 5 significant university-wide educating awards. in the course of the yr 1988?1989, he held the Penn kingdom educating Fellowship, the university's so much prestigious educating award. In 1996, he gained the Dean Arthur Ray Warnock Award for extraordinary school member, and in 2000 obtained the Schreyer Honors collage Excellence in educating Award.