Product Description

Encouraging a broad-based understanding of continuity?? change?? and innovation in human history?? Patterns of World History presents the global past in a comprehensive?? even-handed?? and open-ended fashion

Patterns of World History offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins?? interactions?? and adaptations. Authors Peter von Sivers?? Charles A. Desnoyers?? and George Stow--each specialists in their respective fields--examine the full range of human ingenuity over time and space in a comprehensive?? even-handed?? and critical fashion.

The book helps students to see and understand patterns through: ORIGINS - INTERACTIONS - ADAPTATIONS

These key features show the O-I-A framework in action:

* Seeing Patterns?? a list of key questions at the beginning of each chapter?? focuses students on the 3-5 over-arching patterns?? which are revisited?? considered??