Patterns of World History: Volume Two: From 1400 with Sources
By : Peter von Sivers

Book Synopsis :
Patterns of World History, Third Edition, offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins, interactions, and adaptations. Authors Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers, and George B. Stow examine the full range of human ingenuity over time and spacein a comprehensive, evenhanded, and critical fashion.The authors offer a distinct intellectual framework for the role of innovation and historical change through patterns of origins, interactions, and adaptations. Each small or large technical or cultural innovation originated in one geographical center or independently in several different centers.As people in the centers interacted with their neighbors, the neighbors adapted to--and in many cases were transformed by--the innovations. By adaptation the authors include the entire spectrum of human responses, ranging from outright rejection to creative borrowing and, at times, forcedacceptance. Seeing patterns of various kinds in historical
Book Detail :
Author : Peter von Sivers
Pages : 832 pages
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Language :
ISBN-10 : 0190693614
ISBN-13 : 9780190693619
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