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The text aims to be comprehensive geographically, but such coverage is imbalanced. Following a traditional approach to world history, Western/European content is thicker and more differentiated. For example, all of Africa is examined, if...read more

It does a good job of covering major events in European history, but it does not provide an equal amount of information on other parts of the world. For example, it uses four pages to discuss the transitional period from Caesar to Augustus. But...read more

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I am impressed by the quality of the content. Although it should give more attention to non-western history, it does have an accurate understanding of the world. I appreciate how it describes the major achievements of the Song dynasty in China. Many famous commercial textbooks fail to do that. It is also one of a few titles addressing the history of native peoples in the world. When it comes to European history, the sheer amount of information is noteworthy too.

Its text is accessible, and I don't find any jargon in the book. On the other hand, the writing is sometimes plain. If the writing style was more compelling, it would motivate more students to further explore history.

One major issue of this text is its overemphasis on western civilization. Too many chapters are devoted to discussing the typical western line, from Greece to Rome, and from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the early modern. Other regions do have their individual chapters, but one such chapter often covers the entire history from the beginning to 1500.

This is the biggest drawback. No one teaches world history by spending one month on the non-west and another two months on Europe. The current framework is almost unusable. If I assign this book to my class, I have to pick out certain pages for my lectures, and students have to jump back and forth to find references. Following chronological order would be much better.

Within each region, the content is fine. But the relations between world regions are barely covered. World history focuses on interconnectedness and the global exchange of commodities, ideas, plants and animals, and people. The book has a long way to go.

The text does not treat non-western peoples seriously. European history is given too much attention. The implication is that only the west matters in history. As many scholars have indicated in recent decades, the centers of the world were in the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia before 1500.

First, I want to applaud the tremendous effort and work that undoubtedly went in to producing this open access textbook. The scope of history covered is truly comprehensive for an introductory textbook on World History and the authors cover...read more

I see no problems with accuracies. Different debates on historical events continue. Authors of this textbook often reference these debates. However, if they are not mentioned, this provides a great opportunity for instructors to update students on the latest debates.

As in any history text, information would need to be up-dated as new scholarship comes to light. The way in which the text is written would make updates extremely easy to do. I believe this textbook will remain relevant for a number of years yet,

A textbook created by different authors, as many textbook are, will not be completely consistent in writing styles or emphases. This is true for this textbook as well. Each chapter does, however, employ the same rough overall framework, which brings consistency to the book.

The modularity would seem to make it easily divisible into smaller reading sections. Subheadings are present and are easily recognizable to someone who teaches world history. Reading through the book I was taking notes on how I would use different sections in my world history course.

The textbook has a straightforward chronological direction that provides good foundation for what comes next historically across the world stage. It is reasonably comprehensive in covering world cultures, states, and societies beyond the not uncommon over emphasis on western civilizations. The depth given to Chinese history as well as the Americas and Africa to 1500 is particularly good. For such a broad coverage of world history there are understandably some areas given short shrift, such as factors in the rapid spread of Islam and in the rise of the Mongols and the significance of their extensive empire to increased world trade and communications, but comprehensiveness is, as I said before, pretty good.

Text topics are presented in a logical, clear fashion. I would have be more clear as to the Ming Dynasty merging more into the early modern period but, again, attempting to cover all of world history to 1500 is bound to leave some areas with less depth than desired. I would have had more on the significance of Sparta to the Classical Ancient Greek world, and of the creation of the trireme fleet along with the hoplite phalanxes as crucial to the rise of democracy but, again, the text does a pretty good overall comprehensive job.

I definitely recommend this textbook and intend to use it myself in my world history classes. I would have preferred that it went from the Paleolithic to around 1000 C.E. and then had a part two from that point to the present but I can work this "to 1500" chronology into a three term schoolyear.

This book is an incredible feat of collaborative materials designed to blanket the dearth of information that encompasses the totality of World History. In truth, I am not sure that a perfect product for this mission is ever entirely possible. With such a large compendium, it inevitably falls short in certain areas, giving time and space to discussions regarding traditionally focused cultures (as some other reviewers have commented: Eurocentric), and arguably less to less familiar civilizations such as East Asia and The Americas. The text does provide keyword indices at the beginning of the chapters, but the bolded key terms are not always situated within the text that makes them readily accessible to those who will be searching for clear definitions and a reliable format of studying. There is also no glossary at the end of the textbook to provide succinct definitions or page numbers for reference which are crucial to cross-referencing study tactics.

One of the most important things with scholastic resources, is that they have to meet the reader where they are at. Students taking this class may see this resource as offputting due to the lofty diction that is utilized at times. This author can write very well, but it seems that the audience being written for is not necessarily suited to an introductory class. It felt a bit like reading a dissertation in places with extraneous information and verbiage. As I have previously noted, a textbook should have clear outlines of information and bolding key terms and providing succinct definitions can help the student to focus on specific sections, rather than having to go back and forth through the expansive- even though elegant- prose.

There were some minor grammatical errors that I noticed. For example, in Chapter 10 (the Americas), the author calls the Tlaxcalans incorrectly "Tlazcalan." This could have been a simple mispelling. While not necessarily an error, in Chapter 2 (Egypt): the author uses the description of Afterworld rather than Underworld to describe a deity. This seems like a portmanteau concept of Afterlife and Underworld. It is not common and might be confusing to the students. I believe a more clear description of the Underworld transcending into the Afterlife (according to the Book of the Dead/ Papyrus of Ani) would be appropriate there.

The textbook is well organized along chronological as well as geographic lines. I appreciate its efforts to comprehensively address issues such as geography, economics, culture, and politics. I like the fact that the chapters begin with a chronology, key terms, and questions to consider which might help direct a student's reading. I also commend the author for including "works consulted and further reading" at the end as well as links to primary sources. One area that I saw that was missing was the Pacific as Austronesians (Lapita people) were notable for engaging in the most extensive overseas migration. Additionally, some discussion of South East Asia (e.g. Vietnam) might be helpful to readers (beyond simply being tributaries of China).

The best part about history (especially in a discussion about ancient history) is that changes in historical interpretations don't often occur. For a textbook about World History, this information will not be irrelevant in the near future.

The book is well organized chronologically and geographically. I wish there was more cross-cultural analysis/comparison as this just reads like a standard history textbook (lots of dates/facts/people). It might be relevant to include the current relevance of this information for students today.

At 487 pages, this book may be challenging/intimidating for students to read. I currently assign a "brief" version of the textbook to encourage students to read (it is about half of this) and having them read is still a challenge. An explanation of how to use/understand primary sources might help both readers, as well as professors as simply linking to Marco Polo in primary sources, does not explain his connection to the content under discussion. Also, I was hoping for questions to guide an understanding of the primary source besides just listing it for the reader. e24fc04721