Worlds of History, Volume 1
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Worlds of History offers a flexible comparative and thematic organization that accommodates a variety of teaching approaches and helps students to make cross-cultural comparisons. Thoughtfully compiled by a distinguished world historian and community college instructor, each chapter presents a wide array of primary and secondary sources arranged around a major theme — such as universal religions, the environment and technology, or gender and family — across two or more cultures, along with pedagogy that builds students’ capacity to analyze and interpret sources, and think critically and independently.
Features
A thematic and comparative approach allows students to discern common patterns and important differences. Each chapter explores a topic or theme as experienced by two or more cultures. Students can trace parallel developments in separate regions, such as the development of society in ancient Greece and India in Chapter 3, Identity in Caste and Territorial Societies, or the advent of nationalism in Japan and India in Chapter 23, World War I and Its Consequences: Europe and the World. In other cases, students can examine the enduring effects of contact and exchange between cultures, as in the chapter on Mongol and Viking raiding and settlements from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries, or Volume 2’s chapter on the scientific revolution in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, China, Japan, and the Americas. Even the normally divergent study of the Cold War can be expanded, as documents in Chapter 26 relating to the superpowers’ fight to control the emerging “Third World” show.
Thinking Historically exercises build students’ historical thinking skills. Each chapter begins with a “Historical Context” introduction that sets the stage for directed comparisons among the chapter’s readings. The “Thinking Historically” section follows, which introduces a particular critical thinking skill — such as asking about author, audience, and agenda or distinguishing causes of change — that is designed to mine the chapter’s selections. Introductions preceding each selection provide additional context, while document-specific “Thinking Historically” content poses questions to encourage close analysis of the selections using the critical thinking skill introduced at the beginning of the chapter. Explanatory gloss notes and pronunciation guides throughout help ensure comprehension of the readings. A set of “Reflections” that both summarizes and extends the chapter’s lessons concludes each chapter.
A wide array of primary and secondary sources offers an abundance of material to work with. Primary sources, which make up two thirds of the readings, range from The Book of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan, to On Care for Our Common Home, by Pope Francis. The secondary sources include both essential classic works and current research with such thought-provoking selections as “Women and Marriage in Europe and China,” by Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner; Aromas of Tang China, Edward H. Schafer; and “Globalization’s Backlash Is Here, at Just the Wrong Time,” by Neil Irwin.
New to This Edition
New primary and secondary documents – over 20% in each volume - offer new perspectives, topics, and a broader geographical coverage.New visuals include three statues from Mesopotamia, 2475-2300 B.C.E., a series of classical images of Persephone rising from the underworld in spring, an Egyptian Aphrodite/Venus, and a lingam with the face of Shiva. Brand new primary sources include the bittersweet story of the lovesick Buddhist monk, Chosin; the haunting Pu Songling, The Lady Knight Errant; as well as the classic Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies. An excerpt from E.M. Foster’s classic, Passage to India, is also a new addition, as well as a selection from R. K. Narayan’s Waiting for the Mahatma, Olive Schreiner’s Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, René Maran’s Batouala, and Bui Hien’s Jealousy. New primary sources add a different dimension to an old story with the inclusion of an award-winning, newly translated Viking account that challenges clichés; Sojourner Truth confronts forces of slavery and racism; Abu Talib Khan reveals aspects of English technology in 1810; Nikolai Novikov telegrams Moscow in response to George Kennan; and Osama bin Laden responds to George W. Bush. Two new secondary sources explore the impact of Zheng He and Columbus: Mara Hvistendahl, Rebuilding a Treasure Ship and Edmund S. Morgan, Columbus’ Confusion About the New World. The last chapter on globalization adds two current and thought-provoking essays: Justin Sandefur’s “Is the Elephant Graph Flattening out?” which highlights global convergence with the dramatic exception of the top one percent; and Neil Irwin’s “Globalization’s Backlash Is Here, at Just the Wrong Time” that adds a counterpoint.
Two entirely new chapters are sure to engage students.
New chapters – one in each volume - feature timely and interesting topics sure to engage students. Volume I includes a new chapter that explores The Smell of the Past (Chapter 13), and Volume II includes a new chapter on Climate Change and Global Warming (Chapter 27). The first springs from new historical research on the history of the senses. The second new chapter answers the question: what is the contemporary historical development that students need and want most to understand about climate change and global warming?
New Thinking Historically exercises in each volume help students build critical thinking skills.
New topics include, “Analyzing Cultural Differences,” and “Discovering and Representing the Invisible,” in Volume I; and “Using Literature in History,” and “Keeping the Individual in the Global,” in Volume II. These and the other Thinking Historically exercises focus on developing a specific analytical skill appropriate for the documents and themes in each chapter.
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Worlds of History, Volume 1
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Table of Contents
Volume I
1. Prehistory and the Origins of Patriarchy: Gathering, Agricultural, and Urban Societies, 40,-1 B.C.E.
2. The Urban Revolution and "Civilization": Ancient City Societies in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Peru, 3500-1 B.C.E.
3. Identity in Caste and Territorial Societies: Greece and India, 1-300 B.C.E.
4. Empire and Government: China and Rome, 300 B.C.E.–300 C.E.
5. Gender, Sex, and Love in Classical Societies: India, China, and the Mediterranean, 500 B.C.E.–700 C.E.
6. From Tribal to Universal Religion: Hindu-Buddhist and Judeo-Christian Traditions, 1 B.C.E.–100 C.E.
7. The Spread of Universal Religions: Afro-Eurasia, 100–1300 C.E.
8. Migrations, Trade and Travel: The Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas in Eurasia, Africa, and the Pacific, 3 B.C.E–1354 C.E.
9. Love, Sex, and Marriage: Medieval Europe and Asia, 400–1400
10. Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Encounters: Afro-Eurasia, 1-1300 C.E.
11. Raiders of Steppe and Sea: Vikings and Mongols, Eurasia and the Atlantic, 900–1350
12. The Black Death: Afro-Eurasia, 1346–1350
13. The Smell of the Past: The Long Past
14. Environment, Culture, and Technology: Europe, Asia, and Oceania, 500–1500
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