(P/B) DISCOVERING THE GLOBAL PAST (VOLUME I)

Παρουσίαση

This successful world history reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part pedagogical framework that guides students through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. Each chapter is organized within the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. The Fourth Edition integrates new documents and revised coverage throughout, while the comparative chapters contribute to a more thorough and balanced examination of global history.
FEATURES:
Each chapter is divided into the following sections: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue.
Actual documents and artifacts are used as the sources from which students develop answers to historical questions.
An Instructor's Manual, written by the authors of the text, gives instructors helpful tips on how to use this text in their course.
NEW TO THIS EDITION:
Volume I includes two new chapters: Fiction and the Emotions in Japanese, Arabian, and Irish Culture (Chapter 8) and Cross-Cultural Encounters: Travel, Religion, Conquests, and Trade (Chapter 14; this chapter is also Chapter 1 in Volume II).
In Chapter 3, the material on Egypt has been edited, which allows this chapter to focus more on Archaic and Classical Greece, Buddhist India, classic Maya, and western Africa.
Chapter 9 has been recast as a chapter on Mongol conquests, focusing on the clash between the beneficial and negative effects of this conquest.
In Chapter 11, the material on Christianity has been edited, which allows this chapter to focus more on Buddhism and Islam. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

1. THE NEED FOR WATER IN ANCIENT SOCIETIES (3100 B.C.E. - 100 C.E.)
2. WRITING AND POWER: DEFINING WORLD-VIEWS (1750 B.C.E. - 250 C.E.)
3. REPRESENTING THE HUMAN FORM (600 B.C.E. - 1500 C.E.)
4. HAN AND ROME: ASSERTING IMPERIAL AUTHORITY (300 B.C.E. - 400 C.E.)
5. INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES (300 B.C.E. - 800 C.E.)
7. TWO FACES OF "HOLY WAR": CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS (1095 - 1270s)
8. FICTION AND THE EMOTIONS IN JAPANESE, ARABIAN, AND IRISH CULTURE (1000 - 1400 C.E.)
9. THE MONGOL CONQUEST: SCOURGE OR STIMULUS? (1206 - 1360)
10. REGIONAL METROPOLISES: CONSTANTINOPLE AND TENOCHTITLAN (1160 - 1521)
11. SACRED JOURNEYS: PILGRIMAGES IN BUDDHISM AND ISLAM (629 - 1324)
12. THE WELL-EDUCATED MAN: STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS IN CHINA, PARIS, AND TIMBUKTU (1180 - 1600)
13. FACING THE BLACK DEATH (1300 - 1400)
14. CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS: TRAVEL, RELIGION, CONQUESTS, AND TRADE (1400 - 1700)