A History of World Societies - Tapa dura

An updated and shortened new edition of an outstanding treatment of social history featuring lively writing and extensive primary sources that give voice to a wide range of individuals. Combined with political, cultural, and economic coverage it provides students with a vivid and approachable account of what life was like throughout human history.

JOHN P. MCKAY is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

BENNETT D. HILL (deceased) was Chairman and Professor of History at the University of Illinois, USA, and also Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, USA.

JOHN BUCKLER is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

PATRICIA BUCKLEY EBREY is Professor with Joint Appointment: Early Imperial China, Song Dynasty, at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.

ROGER B. BECK is Distinguished Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University, USA.
 
CLARE HARU CROWSTON is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
 
MERRY E. WEISNER-HANKS is UWM Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.