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Encounters Old and New in World History : Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley /

This volume asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their own academic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bentley, Jerry H., 1949-2012 (honouree.), Mitchell, Laura Jane, 1963- (Editor ), Karras, Alan L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • World historians and the future of academic history : a research manifesto / Alan Karras
  • Making porous and expansive boundaries : Jerry Bentley, world history, and global publics / Trevor R. Getz
  • Teaching world history in a swirl of standards / Merry Wiesner-Hanks
  • Encounters within Europe : foreign travelers' descriptions of slaves and slavery in Iberia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / William D. Phillips, Jr.
  • The sixteenth century world war and the roots of the modern world : a view from the edge / Edmund Burke III
  • Who owns the fish in the sea? : the dukes of Medina Sidonia and Spain's tuna fisheries / Carla Rahn Phillips
  • Eating the world : the iguana's tale of Caribbean ecology and culinary history / Candice Goucher
  • Shaken or stirred? : recreating makgeolli for the twenty-first century / Theodore Jun Yoo
  • Explanations of species extinction in nineteenth-century China and Europe / Robert B. Marks
  • Shadows of sovereignty : legal encounters and the politics of protection in the Atlantic world / Lauren Benton
  • The promise of
  • and the threats to
  • historical linguistics as a complement of Bentleyan world history / Martin W. Lewis
  • Close encounters of the methodological kind : contending with Enlightenment legacies in world history / Laura J. Mitchell.