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    Jeremy Adelman

    Jeremy Adelman, lead author of Volume 2 (D.Phil., Oxford University) has lived and worked in seven countries and on four continents. A graduate of the University of Toronto, he earned a master’s degree in economic history at the London School of Economics (1985) and a doctorate in modern history at Oxford University (1989). He is the author or editor of ten books, including Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (2006) and Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (2013), a chronicle of one of the twentieth century’s most original thinkers. He has been awarded fellowships by the British Council, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies (the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship). For three decades, he both conducted his research and taught at Princeton University. He now has joined the faculty at Cambridge University, where he continues to teach and direct his highly regarded online modern world history survey, The Global History Lab, which is taken simultaneously by students at nearly two dozen universities around the world, including students living in refugee camps in the Middle East and in central and eastern Africa. His next books will be Latin America: A Global History and Earth Hunger: Global Integration and the Need for Strangers.

    Jeremy Adelman

    Jeremy Adelman, lead author of Volume 2 (D.Phil., Oxford University) has lived and worked in seven countries and on four continents. A graduate of the University of Toronto, he earned a master’s degree in economic history at the London School of Economics (1985) and a doctorate in modern history at Oxford University (1989). He is the author or editor of ten books, including Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (2006) and Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (2013), a chronicle of one of the twentieth century’s most original thinkers. He has been awarded fellowships by the British Council, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies (the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship). For three decades, he both conducted his research and taught at Princeton University. He now has joined the faculty at Cambridge University, where he continues to teach and direct his highly regarded online modern world history survey, The Global History Lab, which is taken simultaneously by students at nearly two dozen universities around the world, including students living in refugee camps in the Middle East and in central and eastern Africa. His next books will be Latin America: A Global History and Earth Hunger: Global Integration and the Need for Strangers.

    Books by Jeremy Adelman

    • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

      Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor

      Concise Fourth Edition, Combined Volume, E Book

      The best-selling textbook for teaching and learning global history.

    • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

      Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor

      Concise Fourth Edition, Volume 1, E Book

      The best-selling textbook for teaching and learning global history.

    • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

      Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor

      Concise Fourth Edition, Volume 2, E Book

      The best-selling textbook for teaching and learning global history.

    • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: with Sources

      Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras, Lee Benjamins

      Third Ap® Edition, Paperback, 2025

      The best AP textbook to learn—and truly understand—world history.

    • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

      Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras

      Concise Fourth Edition, Combined Volume, Mixed Media

      The best-selling textbook for teaching and learning global history.

    • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

      Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras

      Concise Fourth Edition, Volume 1, Mixed Media

      The best-selling textbook for teaching and learning global history.

    • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

      Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras

      Concise Fourth Edition, Volume 2, Mixed Media

      The best-selling textbook for teaching and learning global history.

    • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: with Sources

      Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras, Lee Benjamins

      Third Ap® Edition, E Book, 2025

      The best AP textbook to learn—and truly understand—world history.

    • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: Beginnings through the Fifteenth Century

      Jeremy Adelman, Ruth Mostern, Robert Tignor

      Eighth Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2027

      The best-selling textbook for teaching and learning global history

    • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: From 1000 CE to the Present

      Jeremy Adelman, Ruth Mostern, Robert Tignor

      Eighth Edition, Volume 2, Paperback, 2027

      The best-selling textbook for teaching and learning global history

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