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The primary goal of World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Third Edition is to present a truly global history--one that both discusses the development of the world's leading civilizations and also emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies. The book examines all the world's civilizations, including those in the Western tradition but also those civilizations sometimes neglected in world history texts--for example, the nomadic societies of Asia, Latin America, and the nations and states of the Pacific Rim. World Civilizations balances this discussion of independent developments in all the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of international contact. MARKET Appropriate for anyone interested in World History. ory.
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World AP Book
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The book was ordered and there was no picture available of the book at the time of order. We did not realize that it was a different edition (not the one the school was using) until we received it. Although it is against this company's policy for returns...they were VERY UNDERSTANDING and helped us out! We appreciate the service this company offered!
Long, wordy, disorganized book
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Having used this book, I can say that while it is a textbook and has information, it is lengthy and disorganized. They de-emphasize certain things too much and put too much pressure on others, especially specific topics. There are some "in depth" sections that are helpful, but I found that they would bring up the same event in little pieces and really does NOT serve its purpose as a world history course. Focusing too much on the details, this book has no system of organization and does not provide a global scale or give any sort of sense of world history.
In closing, I do not recommend this book. I have had many frustrations with the writing style, immense detail, and lack of clarity. There are other, more organized, more accurate books out there for AP World History.
What Ever Happened To Western Civilization?
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This book was confusing, and expensive. I had to buy this for a history class that I took, and I just thought that is was confusing. However, It may not be the fault of the author or publisher as much as political correctness.
Back in the day we studied Western Civilization, actually the history of what made Americans what we are. But political correctness has redefined the concept of civilization and made it structured like the Civil Rights movement, where every society is equal. Well, they're NOT EQUAL in their contributions to American culture. Plain and simple.
To throw together all this loose information, in a confusing mess, just because it happened at roughly the same time in world history is nothing but a joke. Western Civilization covered too much information as it was, this World History movement is nothing but a sham, and I hope some historians wake up someday and change it back.
Just because a couple people traded silk across Eurasia in the Middle Ages doesn't mean there was some giant trade network that influenced everything equally. This book helps to illustrate how America has gotten to liberal in its worldview. Sorry.
Biased, Wordy, Short on Facts
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We use this book in my AP World HIstory class, and I find it quite useless. It's written sometimes using to casual of language, but still has bulky, multi-sentence paragraphs that serve only to confuse. Just as other reviewers have said, is so incredibly desperate to fight Euro-Centrism that it sometimes goes off on rambling tangents of the "heroic/underreported/unknown/ignored" accomplishments of others. While I am generally a politically correct lefty-Looneytoon myself, this book is over the top in its political statements, and when studying for the AP Test, one needs less opinion, and more fact. This book rarely emphasizes order, instead it emphasizes random people and dates that most AP Professionals say aren't on the test. Finally, it has detail, just details that no one else seems to think will be on the test, but ignores more important historical facts.
If this is the book you use in class, I suggest investing in something else, like a Princeton Review or Barron's before the test. Those who self-study for tests (the only people who would be looking to by this book), should shy away from superfluous textbooks and go straight for one of the books I suggested.
Decent for the AP Test but...
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This book is quite appropriate for the AP World History test, and provides you with most of the information you'll need for the test, however, it does contain several gaping flaws if read purely for interest or outside the context of an AP class. As some other reviewers have mentioned, it attempts to be too politically correct, and dissmisses European achievements, while hailing many less significant foreign ones. It also focuses on the role of women too much in certain civilizations, sometimes writing more about it than achievements in science, for instane.
Additionally, there are long, complicated events that are summarized a tad too much. For instance, it basically covered the entire history of the American Revolution and its impact on the world in a paragraph or two, and describes all the events and battles in a few sentences. Of course, in certain situations, this would be a good thing, as it gives more of a general overview of the world, which is often what the AP test is designed to test you on, however for an enthousiastic reader, it is quite dissappointing.
Overall, it will serve its purpose very well if you're a student, but if you're not, you better find something else to read.
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