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Title: A History of World Societies
by John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill, John Buckler, Paticia Buckley Elbrey, Merry E. Wiesner, William Bruce Wheeler, Franklin M. Doeringer, Melvin E. Page
ISBN: 0-618-03247-9
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College
Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001
Format: Paperback
List Price(USD): $78.36
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)

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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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