The Essential World History (with InfoTrac)
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Book Description
This is a brief introduction to the civilizations of the world. The text covers such individual civilizations as China, India, and Europe, and provides points of comparison between and among these civilizations. It emphasizes breadth and accessibility, and contains a wealth of primary source documents, beautiful 4-color maps, and useful supplements. The text is available in a comprehensive volume as well as two separate volumes: Volume I (Chapters 1-19), to 1800, and Volume II (Chapters 14-32), since 1500.
About the Author
William J. Duiker is a liberal arts professor emeritus of East Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University. A former U.S. diplomat with service in Taiwan, South Vietnam, and Washington, D.C., he received his doctorate in Far Eastern history from Georgetown University in 1968, where his dissertation dealt with the Chinese educator and reformer Cai Yuanpei. At Penn State, he has written widely on the history of Vietnam and modern China, including the widely acclaimed THE COMMUNIST ROAD TO POWER IN VIETNAM (revised edition, Westview Press, 1996), which was selected for a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1982-1983 and 1996-1997. Other recent books are CHINA AND VIETNAM: THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT (Berkeley, 1987) and SACRED WAR: NATIONALISM AND REVOLUTION IN A DIVIDED VIETNAM (McGraw-Hill, 1995). His biography of the revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, HO CHI MINH: A LIFE, was published by Hyperion Press in the fall of 2000. While his research specialization is in the field of nationalism and Asian revolutions, his intellectual interests are considerably more diverse. He has traveled widely and has taught courses on the History of Communism and non-Western civilizations at Penn State, where he was awarded a Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the spring of 1996.
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