In accessible language supported by prolific illustrations and primary sources, Wiesner-Hanks covers the age of exploration from Europe into Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. Quotes from leaders, philosophers, merchants, and voyagers draw readers into the time period. Told through the words and experiences of the people who lived it- kings, queens, and commoners, priests and lay people, explorers, scientists, artists, and world travelers- this is a world history for a new generation.
In accessible language supported by prolific illustrations and primary sources, Wiesner-Hanks covers the age of exploration from Europe into Asia, Afr...
This collection brings together selections from Martin Luther's extensive writings on women, the vast majority of which are translated here into English for the first time. It includes chapters on Eve and the nature of women, the Virgin Mary, Biblical women, marriage, sexuality, childbirth, Luther's relations with his wife and other contemporary women, and witchcraft. Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Susan Karant-Nunn provide a general introduction to each chapter, and Luther's actual texts add fuel to the debate concerned with whether the Protestant Reformation was beneficial or detrimental to...
This collection brings together selections from Martin Luther's extensive writings on women, the vast majority of which are translated here into Engli...
Organized around two main principles, stages of life and gender, this text is divided into eight chapters: childhood; youth and sexuality; courtship and weddings; married life; economic life; networks and communities; and widow-hood and old age. The sources address the numerous and varied ways in which women and men's notions of themselves affected their lives, and explore how accepted norms of masculine and feminine behaviour influenced social, economic, and religious change.
Organized around two main principles, stages of life and gender, this text is divided into eight chapters: childhood; youth and sexuality; courtship a...
A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years.
An extensive survey of the history of women around the world, their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years.
Discusses family history, the history of the body and sexuality, and cultural history alongside women's history and gender history.
Considers the...
A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and look...
The Teaching Guide to An Age of Voyages is a complete, all-in-one resource that provides teachers with the support they need to help their students access the content of the book. It contains a collection of important instructional tools for the teacher, and a separate section on reading and literacy with practical strategies for teaching content to students with a wide range of abilities and learning styles. Special multimedia, cross-curricular projects, one for each chapter, designed for mixed-group use gives students of all backgrounds and learning styles a chance to access and...
The Teaching Guide to An Age of Voyages is a complete, all-in-one resource that provides teachers with the support they need to help their students ac...
From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic and literary creativity involves the artist's dialogue with the works of the past; and that the specter of catastrophic climate change has...
From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics ...
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world, including human relations with nature, gender and family, social hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine maritime and land-based networks of long-distance trade and migration in agricultural and nomadic societies, and the transmission and exchange of cultural...
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-re...
This volume brings together 11 essays which consider three main issues in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion, law and work.
This volume brings together 11 essays which consider three main issues in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion, law and wor...
