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Informationen zum Autor Aran MacKinnon Klappentext Using a place-based approach by focusing on specific locations at critical historical moments of historical transformation, "Places of Encounter" provides a unique alternative to world history anthologies or survey texts. Zusammenfassung Using a place-based approach by focusing on specific locations at critical historical moments of historical transformation, "Places of Encounter" provides a unique alternative to world history anthologies or survey texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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)
