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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 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. It is organized in ten chapters that survey the history of the movement, and the seminal ideas of founding thinkers and today's practitioners....
