Selections from Longman World Primary Sources and Case Studies presents the best of the thought-provoking primary sources and case studies found in the new Longmanworldhistory.com website. This collection encourages students to analyze the themes, issues, and complexities of world history in a meaningful, exciting, and informative way.
An historian who has authored a best-selling textbook on Civilization and who is an expert on the USSR and Russia. He is also the uncle of author Neal Stephenson, with whom he has written two works of fiction under the pseudonym J. Frederick George, which itself was combined to form the joint (with Neal Stephenson) pseudonym Stephen Bury.