Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A Companion Reader

by Kenneth Pomeranz (Editor), James B. Given, Laura J. Mitchell

Nearly 150 visual and textual primary sources to complement Worlds Together, Worlds Apart . The three editors of this new reader are experienced world history teachers, respected scholars, and longtime users of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart . The reader's table of contents matches that of the main text. Documents range in length from 400 to 1,500 words, and each comes with a well-constructed headnote and series of questions to encourage critical analysis.

Genres: History, World History, Nonfiction

278 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2010

About the author

Kenneth Pomeranz (born November 4, 1958) is University Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988, where he was a student of Jonathan Spence. He then taught at the University of California, Irvine, for more than 20 years. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2006. In 2013-14 he was the president of the American Historical Association.

Reviews

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

An outstanding supplement to the Norton text.

[Jules]

seeing a Kendrick Lamar rap song in a history textbook, and subsequently studying it, was honestly a jump scare