Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

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Within chapters 15-18 of the public book Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, published in 2015, are major world history stories and themes concerning the foundation of global trade, revolution and scientific exploration. The authors, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, and Robert Tignor have done an incredible job providing content with connection across time and place. Subsequently, this enables individuals to collectively get involved regarding the use of such enlightening historical information, certainly this will not help people foresee the future or change the past, but help them understand the many different cultures of planet earth, significance of free trade, why people choose to immigrate, and the pursuit of happiness.

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