Product Description: "Gordon's survey of the topic makes it clear that slavery in the Americas can be understood much better if we put it in this larger context, in terms of both time and place. His chapters on East African and Mediterranean slavery are especially valuable, since these were contemporary with so-called Atlantic slavery and can provide students with valid points of comparison, revealing both the similarities and the variable nature of early-modern bondage...read more

Presents an encyclopedia of the Crusades, including entries for Islamic and European topics, biographical portraits, extracts from primary sources, and a time line.

Unlike some other world history texts that center on the West, The Human Record provides balanced coverage of the global past. The book features both written and artifactual sources that are placed in their full historical contexts through introductory essays, footnotes, and focus questions. The text sheds light on the experiences of women and non-elite groups while maintaining overall balance and a focus on the major patterns of global historical developments through the ages.

Product Description: The armies of the Fourth Crusade that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel; they stopped instead at Byzantium and sacked that capital of eastern Christendom...read more

Product Description: Designed to serve as either a source book or core text for medieval European history courses, this volume offers an overview of early European history from 100 to 1500. A useful prologue offers students guidance in analyzing both written and visual primary sources...read more