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Description
Places of Encounter provides a place-based approach to world history, focusing on specific locations at critical moments when human history was transformed as a result of encounters—physical, political, cultural, intellectual, and religious. Original, contributed essays by leading academics in the field explore places from Hadar to Xi’an, Salvador to New York, and numerous other locations that have produced historical shockwaves and significant global impact throughout history. With a chronologically organized table of contents, each chapter dissects a particular moment in history, with personal commentary from each contributor, a narrative of the location’s historical significance at the time, and a section on significant global connections. Primary sources and discussion questions at the end of each chapter allow students a view into the lives of individuals of the time. Students will experience the narrative of historic individuals as well as modern scholars looking back over documentation to offer their own views of the past, providing students with the perfect opportunity to see how scholars form their own views about history.
This text can be purchased as two volumes,
Volume One: To 1600, providing a breadth of information for survey courses in world history.
About the Authors
Aran MacKinnon is professor of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of An Introduction to Global Studies and The Making of South Africa: Culture and Politics.
Elaine McClarnand MacKinnon is professor of history at the University of West Georgia. She is the editor and translator of Mass Uprisings in the USSR.
Praise for Places of Encounter
“This book presents world history accessibly and succinctly through key sites and cities, from Xi’an to Carthage to Potosi. It will work well together with the current textbooks that emphasize interaction and connections in world history. The authors draw students in to their subjects with accounts of their own personal engagement with their chosen site or city, an especially welcome feature.”
—J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University
“Places of Encounter is an ideal text for an increasingly mobile college student body. Yet beyond giving students an appreciation for the diversity of places in human experience, the authors of Places of Encounter impress upon its readers the uniqueness of human experience across time and space. It is a valuable tool for stressing the singularity of human experience across the globe and throughout millennia.”
—Dr. Evan R. Ward, Brigham Young University
“After using chapters of Places of Encounter in my world history class, I now have a useful tool for students to use in getting a better understanding of the nature of interconnectedness in world history. It allows students to understand the notion of place over time and how important that concept is for a clearer appreciation of historical processes. My students noted especially how the individual chapters personalized distant places (both in time and geography) so that they felt that they had actually visited the prime centers of world history. This volume will become a classic in its own right.”
—Eugene Cruz-Uribe, CSU–Monterey Bay
Contents
Thematic Table of Contents
Regional Table of Contents
Note to the Student
Note to Professors
Volume 2
1. CAPE TOWN: At the Cross-Currents of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds (1500–1800)
ARAN S. MACKINNON, UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA
2. SALVADOR DA BAHIA: A South-Atlantic Colonial Crossroads (1549–1822)
CHRISTOPHER EBERT, BROOKLYN COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
3. NAGASAKI: Fusion Point for Commerce and Culture (1571–1945)
LANE EARNS, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, OSHKOSH
4. LONDON: Emerging Global City of Empire (1660–1851)
DANA RABIN, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
5. GORÉE: At the Confluence of the Atlantic, Saharan, and Sahelian Worlds (1677–1890)
TREVOR R. GETZ, SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
6. PARIS: City of Absolutism and Enlightenment (1700s)
CHARLES T. LIPP, UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA
7. CALCUTTA: A Central Exchange Point for Widely Separate Worlds (1700–1840)
JONATHAN E. BROOKE, WILLIAM CAREY UNIVERSITY
8. SHANGHAI: From Chinese Hub Port to Global Treaty Port (1730–1865)
CHRISTOPHER A. REED, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
9. ALGIERS: A Colonial Metropolis Transformed to a Global City (ca. 1800–1954)
JULIA CLANCY-SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
10. GALLIPOLI: War’s Global Concourse (1915)
EDWARD J. ERICKSON, MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE
11. ST. PETERSBURG: The Russian Revolution and the Making of the Twentieth Century (1890–1918)
ELAINE MACKINNON, UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA
12. KINSHASA: Confluence of Riches and Blight (1800s–1900s)
DIDIER GONDOLA, INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE UNIVERSITY AT INDIANAPOLIS
13. BERLIN: A Global Symbol of the Iron Curtain (1945–1991)
ELIZA ABLOVATSKI, KENYON COLLEGE
ELAINE MACKINNON, UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA
14. NEW YORK: Opportunity and Struggle in a Global City (1911–2011)
GREGORY SMITHSIMON, BROOKLYN COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
15. DUBAI: Global Gateway in the Desert (1820–2010)
NEEMA NOORI, UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA
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