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Topics of the day:
1. World History (ancient to 1700) books (5)
2. Jesuits as Global Missionary Order
3. Race for Arctic Ocean
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:13:05 -0700
From: "Eric L. Martin" <elmartin@LCSC.EDU>
Subject: World History (ancient to 1700) books
From: Kathy Callahan
Murray State University
kathy.j.callahan@gmail.com
My students have really enjoyed *Secret History of the Mongol Queens *by
Jack Weatherford. I've enjoyed teaching the material and the valuable
comparisons on gender that it provides.
> From: Cynthia Ross Wiecko
> Texas A&M University - Commerce
> cynthia.wiecko@tamuc.edu
>
>
> With only a month before the semester begins, it appears I will be
> teaching a 300-level course on world history to 1700 in the fall. I am
> very
> familiar with modern world history but this will be my first opportunity
> to
> teach ancient - pre-modern WH. I plan to use Bentley, Ziegler, and
> Streets'
> Traditions & Encounters as a foundational text but need some suggestions
> on
> an additional 2 or 3 books. Past classes read Abu-Lughod's Before European
> Hegemony but I was told the students did not really enjoy it.
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:13:57 -0700
From: "Eric L. Martin" <elmartin@LCSC.EDU>
Subject: World History (ancient to 1700) books
From: Peter Dykema
Arkansas Tech University
pdykema@atu.edu
Regarding books to supplement a textbook in a world history survey up to
1700, I'm sure others will suggest a few classics. But given your time
crunch, I'm going to suggest you look at some world-history series which
offer short, topical titles.
For example:
Connections: Key Themes in World History (Pearson / Prentice-Hall) has a few
titles on topics such as disease, European expansion, slave trade.
Explorations in World History (McGraw-Hill) now has about 10 published
titles on topics such as oceans, religion, women, the silk roads: all of
these topics are explored "in world history."
Themes in World History (Routledge) probably has over 20 titles in the
series.
All 3 of these series are thematic in approach, so if you wish to address
women/gender, or trade, or disease, or religion, you may find a title that
will work for you.
Another suggestion would be to look at the Bedford Series in History and
Culture published by Bedford/St Martin's. Several titles would work well in
a world history perspective, for example, Victors and Vanquished: Spanish
and Nahua ['Aztec'] Views of the Conquest of Mexico, ed. Stuart Schwartz.
-----Original Message-----
From: Cynthia Ross Wiecko
Texas A&M University - Commerce
cynthia.wiecko@tamuc.edu
With only a month before the semester begins, it appears I will be teaching
a 300-level course on world history to 1700 in the fall. I am very familiar
with modern world history but this will be my first opportunity to teach
ancient - pre-modern WH. I plan to use Bentley, Ziegler, and Streets'
Traditions & Encounters as a foundational text but need some suggestions on
an additional 2 or 3 books. Past classes read Abu-Lughod's Before European
Hegemony but I was told the students did not really enjoy it.
Any help is greatly appreciated!=
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:14:28 -0700
From: "Eric L. Martin" <elmartin@LCSC.EDU>
Subject: World History (ancient to 1700) books
From: Tom Mounkhall-
SUNY New Paltz
Look at Alfred Crosby's Columbian Exchange and The Measure of Reality
-----Original Message-----
From: Cynthia Ross Wiecko
Texas A&M University - Commerce
cynthia.wiecko@tamuc.edu
With only a month before the semester begins, it appears I will be teaching
a
300-level course on world history to 1700 in the fall. I am very familiar
with
modern world history but this will be my first opportunity to teach
ancient -
pre-modern WH. I plan to use Bentley, Ziegler, and Streets' Traditions &
Encounters as a foundational text but need some suggestions on an additional
2
or 3 books. Past classes read Abu-Lughod's Before European Hegemony but I
was
told the students did not really enjoy it.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:15:02 -0700
From: "Eric L. Martin" <elmartin@LCSC.EDU>
Subject: Jesuits as Global Missionary Order
From: Tom Taylor
Seattle University
twtaylor@seattleu.edu
I have recently been appointed to the Gaffney Chair here at Seattle
University. It is a 2-year appointment focused on promoting the Jesuit
identity and mission of the University. I will focus on the theme of Jesuit
Missionaries in Historical and Comparative Perspective. I would like to use
this opportunity to help showcase some of the new and interesting work in
world history on the history of the Jesuits as a global missionary order.
Three years ago when the WHA met in Salem, MA I remember several excellent
panels that focused on different aspects of the Jesuit Missionary history.
I would appreciate it if people on this listserve would let me know of new
works, whether monographs and articles in this field, which I should be
paying attention to. I'd also like to learn about work underway in this
topic that may not have yet made it to print.
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:17:53 -0700
From: "Eric L. Martin" <elmartin@LCSC.EDU>
Subject: World History (ancient to 1700) books
From: Pamela McVay
Ursuline College
PMCVAY@ursuline.edu
It's been probably ten years since I last taught the first half of world
history, but here are three primary sources I love working with in
interdisciplinary humanities. I haven't a clue what to use as a secondary
text and would be interested to know what others suggest.
I would only use portions of them. So: Apuleius' _The Golden Ass_ ; Lane's
translation of _Thousand and One Nights_ , and Arthur Waley's abridged
translation of _Journey to the West_ (title, _Monkey: A Folk Tale of China_
in most editions) are nice companion readings. They all are adapted from
extensive prior traditions, have strong comic elements students usually can
respond to, and are mostly presented in episodes that are easily excerpted.
Plus, the cartoon version of the first few chapters of _Journey to the West_
is available in 6 or 7 chunks on youtube, and my students adored it.
________________________________________
From: Cynthia Ross Wiecko
Texas A&M University - Commerce
cynthia.wiecko@tamuc.edu
With only a month before the semester begins, it appears I will be teaching
a 300-level course on world history to 1700 in the fall. I am very familiar
with modern world history but this will be my first opportunity to teach
ancient - pre-modern WH. I plan to use Bentley, Ziegler, and Streets'
Traditions & Encounters as a foundational text but need some suggestions on
an additional 2 or 3 books. Past classes read Abu-Lughod's Before European
Hegemony but I was told the students did not really enjoy it.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:21:25 -0700
From: "Eric L. Martin" <elmartin@LCSC.EDU>
Subject: World History (ancient to 1700) books
from: Alan Fisher
Michigan State University
<fishera@msu.edu>
One book I've had good results with is:
Xiknru Liu and Lynda Shaffer, *Connections Across Eurasia* McGraw-Hill 2007.
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:21:45 -0700
From: "Eric L. Martin" <elmartin@LCSC.EDU>
Subject: Race for Arctic Ocean
From: Larry A. Grant
The Citadel Oral History Program
lagrant@sc.rr.com
The Russians may be disappointed in the end. The Japanese Aerospace
Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, has data since
the 1980s on the extent of Arctic sea ice, and while the current
coverage is on the low side of the data, it is not really unprecedented
nor is there any indication (to date) that it will not recover. I
recommend visiting the link and viewing the actual data:
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm
:
> From: Nicholas Breyfogle
> The Ohio State University
> Editor, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
> breyfogle.1@osu.edu
>
> Dear H-World Members,
>
> Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective announces its August
> 2012 issue: "Russia and the Race for the Arctic"
>
> go.osu.edu/arctic<http://go.osu.edu/arctic>
> or
> http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/article.cfm?articleid=71
>
> Global climate change has caused unprecedented changes to the Arctic
> environment, especially a rapid decrease in the summer sea ice sheet.
> While perilous to the survival of the iconic polar bear, many humans are
> watching these changes with an eye to what riches an open Arctic Ocean
> might bring forth: in oil and gas, mining, and open-water transportation.
> Five countries can lay claim to the potential wealth of the Arctic Ocean:
> Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, and the United States. But it is Russia
> and Canada in particular that have jumped out to the early lead in this
> new race for the Arctic. This month, Nicholas Breyfogle and Jeffrey
> Dunifon explore Russia's long history in the Arctic and the roots of its
> current assertive policies in the region.
>
> Ohio State University's monthly history magazine, Origins: Current Events
> in Historical Perspective, publishes scholars' original interpretations of
> important contemporary issues as a free public service.
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