Places of Encounter, Volume 2: Time, Place, and Connectivity in World History, Volume Two: Since 1500

ISBN-13: 9780813347394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str.

Aran MacKinnon; Elaine McClarnand MacKinnon

Opis

Places of Encounter provides a place-based approach to world history, focusing on specific locations at critical moments when human history was transformed as a result of encounters--physical, political, cultural, intellectual, and religious. Original, contributed essays by leading academics in the field explore places from Hadar to Xi'an, Salvador to New York, and numerous other locations that have produced historical shockwaves and significant global impact throughout history. With a chronologically organized table of contents, each chapter dissects a particular moment in history, with personal commentary from each contributor, a narrative of the location's historical significance at the time, and a section on significant global connections. Primary sources and discussion questions at the end of each chapter allow students a view into the lives of individuals of the time. Students will experience the narrative of historic individuals as well as modern scholars looking back over documentation to offer their own views of the past, providing students with the perfect opportunity to see how scholars form their own views about history.

This text can be purchased as two volumes, providing a breadth of information for survey courses in world history.

Spis treści

CAPE TOWN: At the Cross-Currents of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds (1500-1800), SALVADOR DA BAHIA: A South-Atlantic Colonial Crossroads (1549-1822), NAGASAKI: Fusion Point for Commerce and Culture (1571-1945), LONDON: Emerging Global City of Empire (1660-1851), GOREE: At the Confluence of the Atlantic, Saharan, and Sahelian Worlds (1677-1890), PARIS: City of Absolutism and Enlightenment (1700s), CALCUTTA: A Central Exchange Point for Widely Separate Worlds (1700-1840), SHANGHAI: From Chinese Hub Port to Global Treaty Port (1730-1865), ALGIERS: A Colonial Metropolis Transformed to a Global City (ca. 1800-1954), GALLIPOLI: War's Global Concourse (1915), ST.PETERSBURG: The Russian Revolution and the Making of the Twentieth Century (1890-1918), KINSHASA: Confluence of Riches and Blight (1800s-1900s), BERLIN: A Global Symbol of the Iron Curtain (1945-1991), NEW YORK: Opportunity and Struggle in a Global City (1911-2011), DUBAI: Global Gateway in the Desert (1820-2010)

O autorze

Aran MacKinnon