World History In Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity

by Peter N. Stearns

With a brief, global approach, this book seeks to show how different civilizations developed in a global context, and then encountered the various forces of contemporary life. This book presents the big picture of world history, highlighting the major developments in the world's history and presenting the global interactions of major civilizations. For anyone interested in world history.

Genres: History, World History, Historical

736 pages, Paperback

First published May 9, 1990

About the author

Peter Nathaniel Stearns is a professor at George Mason University, where he was provost from January 1, 2000 to July 2014.
Stearns was chair of the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and also served as the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (now named Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences) at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, he founded and edited the Journal of Social History. While at Carnegie Mellon, he developed a pioneering approach to teaching World History, and has contributed to the field as well through editing, and contributing to, the Routledge series, Themes in World History. He is also known for various work on the nature and impact of the industrial revolution and for exploration of new topics, particularly in the history of emotions.
He is active in historical groups such as the American Historical Association, the Society for French Historical Studies, the Social Science History Association and the International Society for Research on Emotion.

Reviews

[Meredith]

This is about all the reading I can handle right now! For a history text, it is very well written and pretty interesting. Not a lot of emphasis on specific names and dates, more of a general overview of basic themes. I actually ended up reading this entire History text and I enjoyed it.