On File "TM" is our award-winning collection of visual reference materials.
Each On File "TM" depicts complex subjects in a way that both engages and informs students and researchers.
These flexible resources fit into every curriculum. -- Instructors can use the pages for handouts, overheads, posters, and testing. -- Students can use them as quick sources of information, to reference curriculum topics, or to supplement their essays and reports. -- On Files "TM" are available in either binder or electronic format.
Based on the Regional History On File "TM" series, the four-volume World History On File "TM" set is organized chronologically by era to give students a historical perspective and to provide an interdisciplinary look at events around the globe.
Its non-Eurocentric periodization integrates all the world's cultures and regions.
Designed to Adhere to the National Standards for World History Based on our best-selling Regional History On File "TM" series, this four-volume set has been reorganized, reformatted, and thoroughly updated to align with the current National Standards for World History.
Presenting world history in the periodization and format teachers requested, World History On File "TM" is designed to meet the needs of today's students and educators. Organized Chronologically Comprehensive and up-to-date, World History On File "TM" presents the story of humankind as it unfolds across the millennia. Organized chronologically by era to give students a historical perspective, this unparalleled research effort provides an inclusive, multidisciplinary look at events around the globe.
Through the hundreds of maps, timelines, charts, and drawings in eachvolume, a seamless tapestry of the world's peoples and civilizations emerges, bringing the past to life with clarity and immediacy.
Highlights of World History On File "TM": -- Non-Eurocentric periodization integrates all the world's cultures and regions. -- Multidisciplinary coverage offers a balanced presentation of political, social, economic, and cultural history. -- A unique combination of text, timelines, and maps permits quick and easy access to information. -- Specially developed pages encourage active learning and help hone historical skills: -- Historical comprehension -- Analysis -- Interpretation. -- Developed to meet the standards of major curricula and the National Standards for World History.
The third volume illuminates an era of extraordinary and rapid change, democratic revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the establishment of European dominance over much of the world.
Topics include: -- Causes of the American Revolution -- French Revolution -- Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade -- U.S.
Constitution -- Napoleonic Wars -- Struggle for Irish Independence -- Industrial Revolution -- Independence Movements in Latin America -- Opium Wars -- Women's Suffrage Movements -- U.S. -Mexican War -- Revolutions of 1848 -- British Raj in India -- Unifications of Italy and Germany -- European Immigration to the United States -- American Civil War -- Nineteenth-century Racism and Anti-Semitism -- European Colonialism in Africa -- African Resistance to European Colonialism -- Literature and Music.
