Ancient history has traditionally focused on Greece and Rome. This book takes a global approach to the distant past, following the development of human societie

"As panoramic as it is learned, this is ancient history for our globalized world." -- Tom Holland, author of Dynasty and Rubicon Twenty-five-hundred years ago,

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold series that te

An illustrated survey of global historical scholarship from the ancient world to the present, for courses in theory and historiography.

Take a trip through the defining moments of our global story and see the thinkers, leaders, ideas, and inventions that have shaped the world. Presented in a bea