 |  The Western Experience, 8/e Mortimer Chambers,
University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt,
Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb,
Princeton University
Isser Woloch,
Columbia University
Raymond Grew,
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
New FeaturesNew Content:- Recent assertions
that Egyptian writing began earlier than in Sumer, although this still must be
tested by historians, and the discovery of early humans in the area of the
Black Sea…the earliest humans outside Africa.
- Terms and References are explained fully the first time they are used in the
text.
- New scholarship
provides new perspectives on women's history, minority groups, cultural
history, post-colonial history and World Wars I and II.
- Coverage and analysis of the events of September 11 in the larger context of the
historical development of the West. New Pedagogy:
New Pedagogy: - New! Thematic
Grid at the beginning of each chapter helps instructors know where themes
are located through the narrative for instructional purposes, while also
serving as a pedagogical aid alerting students to main thematic points before
reading the chapter.
- New! Chapter
Introductions concentrate more fully on the themes of the
narrative.
- New! "Questions For Further Thought" at the end of each chapter stimulate students to think about history and social, political, and economic forces within it. Some questions are comparative in nature.
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