A History of World Societies, Volume 1: To 1715

The various backgrounds and experiences of John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill, John Buckler, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Roger B. Beck, Clare Haru Crowston, and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks make for a dynamite combination in their textbook, available for rental, entitled A History of World Societies, Volume 1: To 1715, ISBN 9780312682941. An animated narrative style of writing is used to provide college and university students with coverage of the families, foods, workplaces, religions, and diversions of peoples of the past. A combination of political, cultural, and economic views are integrated throughout this historical account to help students gain a clear perception of how life has evolved over the centuries. This edition boasts a myriad of revisions and additions including new information on gender and cultural history, extended coverage of non-Western topics and the evaluation of world societies, as well as a more visually appealing graphic design program including a new map program. A History of World Societies, Volume 1: To 1715 is chronologically organized across 16 comprehensive chapters by John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill, John Buckler, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Roger B. Beck, Clare Haru Crowston, and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. Concepts, events, and places discussed in these chapters include early civilizations of the near east, Indian society, China's classical age, the Greek experience, the world of Rome, East Asia and Buddhism, Europe and Western Asia, and the Islamic world. Other historical discussions address African societies and kingdoms, civilizations of the Americas, Central and Southern Asia, Europe in the middle ages, renaissance and reformation, the acceleration of global contact, and finally, absolutism and constitutionalism in Europe.