This title has been replaced by Patterns of World History 5e, and its resources are no longer available for student purchase or redemption as of 18 Jul 2025. Anyone who purchased or redeemed access prior to 18 Jul 2025 can still access these resources for the duration of their original access period.
Patterns of World History 4e
- History
Description
Patterns of World History, Fourth 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 space in a comprehensive, even-handed, and critical fashion.
The authors' use of a broad-based understanding of continuity, change, and innovation allows them to restore culture in all its individual and institutionalized aspects--spiritual, artistic, intellectual, scientific--to its rightful place alongside technology, environment, politics, and socioeconomic conditions. Understanding innovation in this way allows this text to help illuminate the full range of human ingenuity over time and space in a comprehensive, evenhanded, and open-ended fashion.
Uncovering World History is a collection of modules for World History that provide tools History instructors can use to teach historical thinking skills.
Uncovering World History interweaves content and skills that are delivered to students in an affordable, engaging, and active-learning environment. Each module maintains a clear pathway that guides students as they encounter and respond to both a historical and a methodological problem.
NEW! Uncovering World History is now integrated directly in the Oxford Learning Cloud course for Patterns of World History, Fourth Edition. Adopters of Patterns of World History, Fourth Edition can now assign Uncovering World History without having to ask students to make an additional purchase (a savings of $19.95).
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