World in motion: a dynamic history of humankind

"As a two-volume World History textbook, World in Motion seeks to offer a presentation of World History through the use of three key methodological perspectives, each of which relates to the concept of motion itself: (1) everything moves, (2) layered worlds, layered identities, and (3) our very understanding of world history has been and continues to be in motion. World in Motion seeks to get students to look at history differently. In particular, by complicating existing geographical and civilization models of organization, this text seeks to get you, the student, to question your own perspectives on geographical, cultural, social, and racial divisions in history. Further, by drawing upon anthropological, archaeological, scientific, and oral sources of historical data, rather than emphasizing only written sources, World in Motion's interdisciplinary approach seeks to avoid many of the Eurocentric pitfalls so common to some previous World History texts.