Publisher's Synopsis
For courses in world history.
A narrative exploration of world history and cultures
Revel(TM) Civilizations Past and Present presents a survey of world history, treating the development and growth of civilization as a global phenomenon involving the interaction of all of the world's cultures. The text includes all the elements of history - social, economic, political, military, religious, aesthetic, legal, and technological - to illustrate this global interaction. The 13th Edition has been substantially revised and made more concise while emphasizing world trends and carefully avoiding placing these trends within a Western conceptual basis.