This Fleeting World

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About the Author David Christian is a professor at San Diego State University, where he teaches world history, environmental history, and Russian history. He is the author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, which won the <strong>World</strong> History Association prize for the best book in world history published in 2004. David Christian has also written A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Volume 1: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire; Imperial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege and the Challenge of Modernity; and Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation. 113
Berkshire Encyclopedia of <strong>World</strong> History “A masterful title that weaves together social, scientific, anthropological, and geographical influences on world history, this set will be the benchmark against which future history encyclopedias are compared ...[and] belongs on the shelves of all high-school, public, and academic libraries. In short: buy it. Now.” —BOOKLIST Starred Review FIRST EDITION: 5 VOLUMES 2,500 pages ISBN 978-0-9743091-0-1 U.S. Price: $575 • Library Journal: Best Reference Source • Choice: Outstanding Academic Title • Booklist: Editor’s Choice Reference Source • Ideal for teachers making the transition from teaching U.S. history and European history to world history • Accessible to high school and even middle school students mastering world history • Edited and written by the world’s most eminent historians, including the authors of many of the leading world history textbooks • Extensive coverage of Africa and Asia • Detailed exploration of women’s, social, economic, and environmental history • Over 1,000 sidebars, maps, drawings, cartoons, and illustrations, with an emphasis on primary texts
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Contents Preface ix Publisher’s N
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Preface This Fleeting World: A Teac
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Preface xi That is why we are so en
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Preface xiii That is not to say eve
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Preface xv influence and consequenc
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Introduction As Henry Ford is suppo
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Prequel xxi we can tell a story tha
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Prequel xxiii sion known as a “su
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Prequel xxvii the appearance of a l
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