Ways of the World with Sources for the AP® Course

by Robert W. Strayer, Eric W. Nelson

Ways of the World is the ideal textbook for your redesigned AP® World History classroom. Like the AP® course it supports, Ways of the World focuses on significant historical trends, themes, and developments in world history. Authors Robert Strayer and Eric Nelson provide a thoughtful and insightful synthesis that helps students see the big picture. Each chapter then culminates with collections of primary sources organized around a particular theme, issue, or question, allowing students to consider the evidence the way historians do.

Genres: School, History

1264 pages, Hardcover

First published January 22, 2016

Reviews

[Angelina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Booooooo

[Kailee · Rating 1 out of 5]

It took me 8 months to read this book and I had to take notes over it. Not an enjoyable experience! 🫥

[Eleanor Bailey · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read this for Global 9 Honors and AP World. Not an exaggeration to say this made my life a living hell. Especially since I’m not interested much in history, I struggled to read 30-40 pages every 2 weeks while taking notes. Also didn’t retain any of the information so the APWH exam will be a rough one.

edit: i got a 4 😛

[tiffanie · Rating 1 out of 5]

reviewing now bc i forgot 2 do this last year. this is the only textbook i will ever review on goodreads and if i could i would give it 0 stars. shitty book with even shittier author......reasons why it's used in so many american high school classrooms go without saying (whitewashing, colonizer pov, leaves out entire chunks of history if its not either 1. about europe or 2. a non-western state mentioned briefly as context for european and us colonization, which is also vastly understated, simplifies eastern religions and cultures, and only if they are even mentioned in the first place). so bad that i literally learned tons more from reading fantasy novels than these 1000+ pages of bs.......go read poppy war instead <3

[Ace Phillips · Rating 1 out of 5]

Good lord, if you went by this book, you'd know only of the pastoralists and the practitioners of Islam. Every other minority--religious, ethnic, national, racial--is just ever so conveniently left out. Way to go, writers.

Also, wth. 30-50 pages per chapter? No wonder people doubt the education system. Hell, I might start.

[Lea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Did it if for WHAP.

[ariana ♡]

i don’t know what made me cry more: the fact that each chapter is 30-50 pages or the fact that my teacher assigned 2 chapters and 4 assignments a week.

[Marlene · Rating 1 out of 5]

did not retrain any of the information in this book 🍅👎🙄

[london isbell · Rating 2 out of 5]

AP WH EXAM OVERRRRRR!!!!!!!!!