Patterns of World History: To 1600: With Sources - Couverture souple

Von Sivers, Peter; Desnoyers, Charles A.; Stow, George B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0190693606 ISBN 13 : 9780190693602

Editeur : Oxford Univ Pr, 2017

Synopsis

Patterns of World History , Third Edition, offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins, interactions, and adaptations. Authors er von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers, and George B. Stow examine the full range of human ingenuity over time and space in a comprehensive, evenhanded, and critical fashion.

The authors offer a distinct intellectual framework for the role of innovation and historical change through patterns of origins, interactions, and adaptations . Each small or large technical or tural innovation originated in one geographical center or independently in several different centers. As people in the centers interacted with their neighbors, the neighbors adapted to--and in many cases were transformed by--the innovations. By "adaptation" the authors include the entire spectrum of human responses, ranging from outright rejection to creative borrowing and, at times, forced acceptance. Seeing patterns of various kinds in historical development brings to light connections and linkages among peoples, tures, and regions that might not otherwise present themselves.

Such patterns can also reveal differences among tures that other approaches to world history tend to neglect. For example, the differences between the civilizations of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres are generally highlighted in world history texts, but the broad commonalities of human groups creating agriturally-based cities and states in widely separated areas also show deep parallels in their patterns of origins, interactions, and adaptations. Such comparisons are at the center of Patterns of World History . This kind of ysis offers insights into how an individual innovation was subsequently developed and diffused across time and space--that is, the patterns by which the new eventually becomes a necessity in daily lives.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Univ Pr
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0190693606
• ISBN 13: 9780190693602
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 557
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible