A HISTORY OF WORLD SOCIETIES

• Main Authors: MCKAY, JOHN P. (Author), HILL, BENNET D. (Author), BUCKLER, JOHN (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Houghton Mifflin 1988
• Edition: Second Edition
• Subjects: Civilization > History
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xxiv, 1280 pages some colour illustrations 27 cm
• ISBN: 0395359457

A HISTORY OF WORLD SOCIETIES grew out of the authors' desire to infuse new life into the study of world civilizations. We knew full well that historians were using imaginative questions and innovative re search to open up vast new areas of historical interest and knowledge. We also recognized that these ad vances had dramatically affected the subject of eco nomic, intellectual, and, especially, social history, while new research and fresh interpretations were also revitalizing the study of the traditional main stream of political, diplomatic, and religious devel opment. Despite history's vitality as a discipline, however, it seemed to us that both the broad public and the intelligentsia were generally losing interest in the past. The mathematical economist of our ac quaintance who smugly quipped "What's new in his tory?"-confident that the answer was nothing and that historians were as dead as the events they exam ine-was not alone.