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Title: A History of World Societies: To 1715 by John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill, John Buckler ISBN: 0-395-94490-2 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $76.36 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A comprehensive and accurate account of world history
Comment: This extraordinarily well written book contains every essential fact with which we all need to be familiar. No other book on the market offers so much information at such a low price. Furthermore, the structure of the book facilitates reading and also makes it more interesting. Needless to say, many history books nowadays present biased accounts of historic facts (after all, it is a well known fact that winners write history books). This book, on the other hand, provides a relatively unbiased and balanced account of world history. I have read a number of history books but none of them is nearly as well written and well structured as this one. In my view, this book should be a part of every student's book collection. Highly recommended.
Rating: 3
Summary: Rewriting history, or fabricating it from whole cloth?
Comment: RE: A History of World Societies, Vol. B, by McKay, Hill, and Buckler.The following was taken directly from the pages of this text; chapter 14, page 460, last paragraph, left column:
'The average runner could cover about 50 leagues or 175 miles per day ' a remarkable feat of physical endurance, especially at high altitude ' but the larger the empire became, the greater the distances to be covered.'
I had always supposed that genuine scholars wrote textbooks, and that they were intended as works of non-fiction. Instead, this text is more akin to Paul Bunyan; it's a sort of South American version of American Folktales.
Upon reflection, I don't know whether the appropriate response is outrage at the ignorance of the authors, or amusement at the gullibility of the (what ' apparently sleeping?) editors. Is the ubiquitous filter of political correctness the only scrutiny to which textbooks today are subject?
In my view, this passage calls into question the reliability ' indeed, the credibility ' of the remaining information. If such fundamentally simple information as this is worthless, to what level of factual scrutiny were the socio/political ideas subject?
Rating: 5
Summary: On time like said
Comment: The book came in good cond.and on time!... Do business anytime..referred them to other classmates
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Title: The Human Record: Sources of Global History : Volume I by Alfred Andrea, James Overfield ISBN: 0618042458 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $46.76 |
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Title: A History of World Society, Volume 2, Fifth Edition : Volume of ...McKay-A History of World Societies by MCKAY ISBN: 0395944910 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $78.76 |
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Title: Discovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence, Second Edition by Merry E. Wiesner, William Bruce Wheeler, Franklin M. Doeringer ISBN: 0618043683 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $41.56 |
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Title: Documents in World History, Volume I: From Ancient Times to 1500 (3rd Edition) by Peter N. Stearns, Stephen S. Gosch, Erwin P. Grieshaber ISBN: 0321100530 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 25 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $52.67 |
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Title: Sources in World History, Volume I by Mark A. Kishlansky, Susan Lindsey Lively ISBN: 0534586899 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $46.95 |
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