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Author : Larry S. Krieger
Publisher : D C Heath & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780669308525
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)
Download or read book World History written by Larry S. Krieger and published by D C Heath & Company. This book was released on 1994-02 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Reinarz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096029
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Past Scents written by Jonathan Reinarz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds. This broad survey demonstrates how each community or commodity possesses, or has been thought to possess, its own peculiar scent. Through the meanings associated with smells, osmologies develop--what cultural anthropologists have termed the systems that utilize smells to classify people and objects in ways that define their relations to each other and their relative values within a particular culture. European Christians, for instance, relied on their noses to differentiate Christians from heathens, whites from people of color, women from men, virgins from harlots, artisans from aristocracy, and pollution from perfume. This reliance on smell was not limited to the global North. Around the world, Reinarz shows, people used scents to signify individual and group identity in a morally constructed universe where the good smelled pleasant and their opposites reeked. With chapters including "Heavenly Scents," "Fragrant Lucre," and "Odorous Others," Reinarz's timely survey is a useful and entertaining look at the history of one of our most important but least-understood senses.
Author : James M. Brophy
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393912951
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Perspectives from the Past: From the age of exploration through contemporary times written by James M. Brophy and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best collection of longer primary sources now available in an affordable, compact format.
Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566395526
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (955 download)
Download or read book The New American History written by Eric Foner and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally released in 1990, The New American Historyedited for the American Historical Association by Eric Foner, has become an indispensable volume for teachers and students. In essays that chart the shifts in interpretation within their fields, some of our most prominent American historians survey the key works and themes in the scholarship of the last three decades. Along with substantially revised essays from the first edition, this volume presents three entirely new ones - on intellectual history, the history of the West, and the histories of the family and sexuality. The second edition of The New American Historyreflects, in Foner's words, "the continuing vitality and creativity of the study of the past, how traditional fields are being expanded and redefined even as new ones are created." Author note: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, including Reconstruction, 1863-1877which was awarded the Bancroft Prize.
Author : Samuel S. Wineburg
Publisher : Critical Perspectives on the P
ISBN 13 : 9781566398565
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts written by Samuel S. Wineburg and published by Critical Perspectives on the P. This book was released on 2001 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how ordinary people think about the past and use it to understand the present. These essays acknowledge the role of collective memory in filtering what we learn in school and shaping our historical thinking.
Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199280681
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Living Standards in the Past written by Robert C. Allen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Europe experience industrialisation and modern economic growth before China, India or Japan? This is one of the most fundamental questions in Economic History and one that has provoked intense debate. The main concern of this book is to determine when the gap in living standards between the East and the West emerged. The established view, dating back to Adam Smith, is that the gap emerged long before the Industrial Revolution, perhaps thousands of years ago. While this viewhas been called into question - and many of the explanations for it greatly undermined - the issue demands much more empirical research than has yet been undertaken. How did the standard of living in Europe and Asia compare in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? The present book proposes ananswer by considering evidence of three sorts. The first is economic, focusing on income, food production, wages, and prices. The second is demographic, comparing heights, life expectancy and other demographic indicators. The third combines the economic and demographic by investigating the demographic vulnerability to short-term economic stress.The contributions show the highly complex and diverse pattern of the standard of living in the pre-industrial period. The general picture emerging is not one of a great divergence between East and West, but instead one of considerable similarities. These similarities not only pertain to economic aspects of standard of living but also to demography and the sensitivity to economic fluctuations. In addition to these similarities, there were also pronounced regional differences within the East andwithin the West - regional differences that in many cases were larger than the average differences between Europe and Asia. This clearly highlights the importance of analysing several dimensions of the standard of living, as well as the danger of neglecting regional, social, and household specificdifferences when assessing the level of well-being in the past.
Author : Larry S. Krieger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 9780669405330
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)
Download or read book World History : Perspectives on the Past written by Larry S. Krieger and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World history text includes excerpts from novels, diaries, and poems as well as art works ranging from stone-age paintings to computer-drawn images. The teacher's edition offers lesson plans, chapter summaries, outline maps, worksheets, and graphic organizers. Secondary level.
Author : Olaf Kaltmeier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317142802
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Entangled Heritages written by Olaf Kaltmeier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of new debates: subcultures, new identities, hidden voices and multicultural discourse as a kind of new hegemonic platform also involving concepts of heritage and/or memory. Thereby we can observe a proliferation of heritage agents, especially beyond the scope of the nation state. This volume gets beyond a container vision of heritage that seeks to construct a diachronical continuity in a given territory. Instead, authors point out the relational character of heritage focusing on transnational and translocal flows and interchanges of ideas, concepts, and practices, as well as on the creation of contact zones where the meaning of heritage is negotiated and contested. Exploring the relevance of the politics of heritage and the uses of memory in the consolidation of these nation states, as well as in the current disputes over resistances, hidden memories, undermined pasts, or the politics of nostalgia, this book seeks to seize the local/global dimensions around heritage.
Author : Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 940177496X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Oceans Past written by Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine environmental history analyses the changing relationships between human societies and marine natural resources over time. This is the first book which deals in a systematic way with the theoretical backgrounds of this discipline. Major theories and methods are introduced by leading scholars of the field. The book seeks to encapsulate some of the major novelties of this fascinating new discipline and its contribution to the management, conservation and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems as well as the cultural heritages of coastal communities in different parts of the world.
Author : Larry S. Krieger
Publisher : D C Heath & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780669308525
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)
Download or read book World History written by Larry S. Krieger and published by D C Heath & Company. This book was released on 1994-02 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Soluri
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785333917
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book A Living Past written by John Soluri and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.
Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226789373
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Ancient Perspectives written by Richard J. A. Talbert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
ISBN 13 : 9781932650167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Future of the Past written by Serhii Plokhy and published by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukraine is in the midst of the worst international crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War, and history itself has become a battleground in Russia-Ukraine relations. The Future of the Past shows how the study of Ukraine's past enhances our understanding of Europe, Eurasia, and the world--past, present, and future.
Author : Henry L. Gates
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9781567430295
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Langston Hughes written by Henry L. Gates and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2000-02-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Langston Hughes (1902 -- 1967) With a career that spanned the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and Black Arts movement of the sixties, Langston Hughes was the most prolific Black poet of his era. Between 1926, when he published his pioneering The Weary Blues, to 1967, the year of his death, when he published The Panther and the Lash, Hughes would write sixteen books of poems, two novels, seven collections of short stories, two autobiographies, five works of nonfiction, and nine children's books; he would edit nine anthologies of poetry, folklore, short fiction, and humor. He also translated Jaques Roumain, Nicolás Guillén, Gabriela Mistral, Federico Garcia Lorca, and write at least thirty plays. It is not surprising that Hughes was known, variously, as "Shakespeare in Harlem" and as the "poet laureate of the American Negro." -- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Author : James M. Brophy
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393265392
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Perspectives from the Past written by James M. Brophy and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing value in perspective--a rich primary source collection at a truly exceptional value.
Author : Alf Hatton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134816316
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Cultural Resource Management in Contemporary Society written by Alf Hatton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection of essays from an international range of contributors describes various means of preserving, protecting and presenting vital cultural resources within the context of economic development, competing claims of "ownership" of particular cultural resources, modern uses of structures and space, and other aspects of late twentieth-century life.
Author : David A. Moss
Publisher : The Tobin Project
ISBN 13 : 0982478801
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (824 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on Regulation written by David A. Moss and published by The Tobin Project. This book was released on 2009 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an experiment in reconnecting academia to the broader democracy, this work is designed to invigorate public policy debate by rededicating academic work to the pursuit of solutions to society's great problems.
