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| The Human Record: Sources of Global History, Volume II: Since 1500 | 
 enlarge | Authors: Alfred J. Andrea, James Overfield
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $72.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 343180
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 543
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0618370412
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780618370412
ASIN: 0618370412
Publication Date: March 2, 2004
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Product Description
The Human Record is a leading collection of primary sources for world history courses. Unlike many world history texts that center on the West, The Human Record provides balanced coverage of the global past. The book features both written and artifactual sources placed in their full historical contexts through introductory essays, footnotes, and focus questions. Each volume in the Fifth Edition begins with a prologue, "Primary Sources and How to Read Them", that introduces students to the proper methods for reading and interpreting primary source material; the authors also walk students through sample visual and textual sources to help them master this skill.
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 History from the original source documents April 27, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"The Human Record" is a collection of primary source documents veering world history from the beginning of written history to about 1500 AD/CE. The text provides context for the original source documents and it typically is used as a companion text for many world history textbooks at the secondary and university levels. "Human Record" includes sample questions which either the student or teacher can utilize to help assess their comprehension of the material presented.
"Human Record" has been regularly updated with new editions that further add or refine previous editions, attesting to its enduring popularity as a resource at both the secondary and university levels. Outside of teachers and students however I cannot imagine there is much appeal. It does represent a wide cultural diversity of ethnic groups and religions rather than showing a Eurocentric perspective, but then again that's become the norm at both secondary and university levels rather than the norm.
 Textbook is good, amazon description bad September 25, 2006
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I had the same experience as another reviewer here (Todd) who received the 2nd in a series of two texts instead of the 1st, after ordering - because of incomplete information on Amazon's page. Fortunately, my professor will be assigning the 2nd text in the near future. However, given the lack of a photograph on Amazon's page, it is very difficult to determine which book one will receive after ordering. Will someone at Amazon please fix this?
 Imcomplete information for the item listed August 29, 2006
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
I hate to be negative, I'm an eternal optimist with Captain Crunch and all, but this item, not featuring any sort of cover photo or volume number, is misleading. I really needed the Human Record Vol. I, 5th Ed., but was sent Human Record Vol. II. I can imagine it was an honest mistake but I will now have to buy the book for a far greater price at my college's book store. I suppose this is what happens when you try to get your education at a reasonable price hey?
Well, we use it. August 19, 2000
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is the book we use in my history class. The nice part of this text is that the authors give samples of literature from many cultures. You can see the contrasts of each civilizations and the diffrences in their beliefs of mortality, and their views on justice and social class. In all the text is well written, however the time spent on each specific culture could have been more informative. An example is the Egyptian civilization. My opinion is that more detail should have been paid to this civilization. If this book is required reading for your class, I would encourage you to buy this book through Amazon, as I paid more for my copy and it was used at that!
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