This brief, popular collection offers primary sources on a variety of civilizations, periods and topics in world history that will enhance teaching effectiveness and student learning. As the most concise primary source book on the market,Documents in World History gives professors the opportunity to incorporate primary materials into the classroom in a manageable and affordable way. Filled with reliable as well as less traditional materials, this book will enrich World History courses by providing exposure to original sources, by posing additional analytical issues relating to main world history themes, and by giving students practice in the rewarding capacity to interpret primary documents.

A number of documents have been replaced in the Second Edition, with several purposes: increase global emphasis, provide direct comparative experience in each of the periods features, and provide experience in using documents to trace and assess global forces, again in each period.