Presents primary documents from around the world, spanning 3500 B.C.E. through the late twentieth century, also providing introductions, study questions, and discussion questions.
Explores the historical origins and world-wide appeal of societies' desire to acquire luxury goods and leisure services, relating consumerism to other issues in world history and reassessing common beliefs about consumerism and global history.
Primary source documents and historical materials trace world history from prehistoric times to the present, highlighting key events and trends and their impact on world history and development.
Encyclopedic entries focus on central developments in the process of change from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, defining major new machines, work processes, and many individuals and trade union groups directly involved.
Explores the current state of scholarship on daily life, offering students and teachers an overview of the hows and whys of the little and big things people did, thought, and felt throughout their lives and in different historical periods.
