Thematic Texts
as always, suggestions are welcome
Connections: Key Themes in World History, Pearson PrenticeHall
Secondary surveys of thematic topics such as disease, the transatlantic trade in Africans, European exploration, and long-distance commodity trades.
Bedford Series in History and Culture, Bedford/St. Martin's
Course-sized collections of documents with introductions and context from leading scholars. There are dozens of titles in the series.
Problems in World History, Houghton Mifflin
Two titles in Atlantic world history, combining excerpts from primary sources and fundamental secondary works.
Oxford Readers and Oxford Grade R, Oxford University Press
Thematic collections of excerpts from primary and secondary sources—for instance, Slavery, and The British Empire.