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World Civilizations I: From Human Origins to the Threshold of the Modern World

by Rodgir Cohen
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781988557670
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Humanities Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Humanities Academic Publishers
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  • Pages: 214
  • Original Price: USD 29.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 508 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): World

World Civilizations I is a comprehensive undergraduate textbook covering the full sweep of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens (c. 300,000 BCE) to the threshold of the early modern era (c. 1500 CE). Written for university and community college survey courses, it combines scholarly rigor with real accessibility, modeling the analytical habits - comparative reasoning, critical source analysis, attention to evidence - that a world history course should develop.

Unlike textbooks that privilege Western Europe as the natural center of the human story, this text is genuinely global in its framing. Every chapter situates its subject in world-historical context, attends to developments across all inhabited continents, and uses comparison as its primary analytical tool. The civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, South Asia, and East Asia receive the same scholarly seriousness as those of the ancient Mediterranean and medieval Europe. An accurate account of humanity cannot be built on a partial record.

Each chapter includes primary source excerpts, comparative case studies, and review questions suited to both lecture and discussion formats - making the book equally effective for assigned reading, lecture support, and seminar discussion.

Coverage spans 17 chapters, from human prehistory and the first cities through the rise of world religions, the great classical empires, Mongol Eurasian integration, the pre-contact Americas, the Indian Ocean world, and the global connections of 1500 - closing with two synthesis chapters that draw out the patterns across the entire human past.

Cohen, Rodgir: - Dr. Rodgir Cohen holds doctorates in Psychology and Theology, with graduate degrees in Jewish Studies, Political Science, and Religious Studies. He teaches at Loma Linda University, California State University Fullerton, Vanguard University, and several California community colleges. He also holds a Conjoint Research Professorship at Avondale University's Scripture, Spirituality and Society Research Centre in Australia. He is the author of more than thirty books.

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