Discovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume II: Since 1400

by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Kenneth R. Curtis, Franklin Doeringer, William Bruce Wheeler

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This successful world history version of the popular Discovering series contains a multi-part pedagogical framework that guides students through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. The Third Edition integrates new documents and revised coverage throughout, while the comparative chapters contribute to a more thorough and balanced examination of global history. Each chapter is organized show more within the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue. show less

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Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. She is an esteemed historian whose work has been central to the integration of women, gender, and sexuality into the study of early modern Europe and World/Global History. She is the long-time Senior Editor show more of the Sixteenth Century journal and author or editor of thirty books and many articles that have been published in numerous languages. show less
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William Bruce Wheeler is professor emeritus of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the coauthor of TVA and the Tellico Dam, 1936-1979: A Bureaucratic Crisis in Post-Industrial America and is currently at work on the sixth edition of Discovering the American Past.

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Discovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume II: Since 1400

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Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
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909History & geographyHistoryWorld history
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D20 .D58History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaHistory (General)General
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