New World History - A Field Guide for Teachers and Researchers

Zusatztext "A valuable, sophisticated, and well-organized selection of papers written by many leading experts in the field...  The New World History  is a tour de force." Informationen zum Autor Ross E. Dunn  is Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University! author of The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century ! and coauthor of Panorama: A World History. Laura J. Mitchell  is Associate Professor of History at the University of California! Irvine! author of Belongings: Property! Family! and Identity in Colonial South Africa ! and coauthor of Panorama: A World History. Kerry Ward  is Associate Professor of History at Rice University and author of Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company . Klappentext "Archive, GPS, orientation device—this collection is a godsend for anyone trying to navigate the intellectual ferment and terminological maze of 'world histories.' Mirroring the polycentricity and multivocality of the field itself, the editors and contributors model the limits and possibilities of global thinking as it applies to historical research and especially history teaching. Whether you are a first-time instructor or a scholar with deep roots in the field, there is something of value here for you."—Antoinette Burton, Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities "Dunn, Mitchell, and Ward have given teachers and scholars of world history a wonderful gift in gathering together these scholars and these essays, and then putting them in conversation with each other.  The New World History  is brilliantly structured and thoughtfully curated. More than just a marvelous and indispensable resource for beginning and experienced teachers of world history, it is a veritable seminar taught by leading scholars, past and present."—Bob Bain, University of Michigan, School of Education and Department of History Zusammenfassung A comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship. It features forty-four articles that take stock of the history, evolving literature, and the trajectories of new world history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 97387723 ...

Product details

• Authors: Ross E. Mitchell Dunn
• Assisted by: Ross E. Dunn (Editor), Dunn Ross E. (Editor), Laura J. Mitchell (Editor), Mitchell Laura J. (Editor), Kerry Ward (Editor), Ward Kerry (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780520289895
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28989-5
• No. of pages: 656
• Series: California World History Library; California World History Libra; California World History Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Essays, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Essays, General & world history, Historiography, Literary essays, General and world history