Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Textbook: Making Sense of World History

Szostak, Rick
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"Making Sense of World History is a comprehensive and accessible textbook that helps students understand the key themes of world history within a chronological framework stretching from ancient times to the present day. To lend coherence to its narrative, the book employs a set of organizing devices that connect times, places, and/or themes. This narrative is supported by: Flowcharts that show how phenomena within diverse broad themes interact in generating key processes and events in world history. A discussion of the common challenges faced by different types of agent, including rulers, merchants, farmers, and parents, and a comparison of how these challenges were addressed in different times and places. An exhaustive and balanced treatment of themes such as culture, politics, and economy, with an emphasis on interaction. Explicit attention to skill acquisition in organizing information, cultural sensitivity, comparison, visual literacy, integration, interrogating primary sources, and critical thinking. A focus on historical “episodes” that are carefully related to each other. Through the use of such devices, the book shows the cumulative effect of thematic interactions through time, communicates the many ways in which societies have influenced each other through history, and allows us to compare and contrast how they have reacted to similar challenges. They also allow the reader to transcend historical controversies and can be used to stimulate class discussions and guide student assignments. With a unified authorial voice and offering a narrative from the ancient to the present, this is the go-to textbook for World History courses and students. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003013518, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license."

DOI
10.4324/9781003013518
ISBN
9780367820886, 9780367820893, 9781003013518
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/
Publication date and place
2021
Imprint
Routledge
Classification
General & world history
Social & cultural history
Pages
1424
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

 

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Antike Malerei zwischen Lokalstil und Zeitstil: Akten des XI. Internationalen Kolloquiums der AIPMA 13.-17. September 2010 in Ephesos

Norbert Zimmermann

Under the main theme “Ancient Painting Between Local Style and Period Style”, the 11th international conference of AIPMA (Association Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique) took place from September 13 to 17, 2010 in Ephesus (Turkey). In a chronologically and topographically diversified lecture program about 150 specialists from 16 nations devoted themselves to the characteristics of period and/or local styles in ancient painting and to the relationship and influence of local styles and traditions. The publication at hand presents the 45 lectures regarding the general topic as well as 17 further contributions on novitates and 40 posters. The contributions focus particularly on those findings that offer a rich stock of materials in a well dateable archaeological context. In these, influences such as special transient trends, local workshop traditions and the personal influence of the client can become especially apparent. Chronologically, the contributions span from the Hellenistic period to late Antiquity, whereby this time, apart from Pompeii, the focus is placed on paintings of the later Roman Imperial period as well as late Antiquity, with studies on central monuments and important new findings. Topographically, all areas of the Roman Empire are covered, from the Vesuvian cities and Italy to Asia Minor, followed by the north-western and eastern provinces, the Orient and Africa. In general, it becomes apparent that up to the mid-Imperial period the terms period style and local style are synonymous which can be used identically and can be traced to the centralistic structure of the Roman Empire and the role model of Rome. However, this changes considerably in later Imperial times and at first glance paintings from Rome (Ostia), North Africa and Ephesus follow different traditions, developments or local workshops with a greater variety of wall partitioning, color schemes and the use of décor elements and picture themes that cannot readily be explained by a joint conception of period style. The thematic contributions are complemented by several high quality and significant new 

ISBN 978-3-7001-7658-9
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Denkschriften der phil.-hist. Klasse 468 
Archäologische Forschungen  23 
2015,  1083 Seiten, 29,7x21cm, broschiert
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Migration Myths and the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean

This Element is free online from 30th March - 13th April 

A. Bernard Knapp, University of Glasgow 
Migration Myths and the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean

This Element looks critically at migration scenarios proposed for the end of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. After presenting some historical background to the development of migration studies, including types and definitions of migration as well as some of its possible material correlates, I consider how we go about studying human mobility and issues regarding 'ethnicity'. There follows a detailed and critical examination of the history of research related to migration and ethnicity in the southern Levant at the end of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1200 BC), considering both migrationist and anti-migrationist views. I then present and critique recent studies on climatic and related issues, as well as the current state of evidence from palaeogenetics and strontium isotope analyses. The conclusion attempts to look anew at this enigmatic period of transformation and social change, of mobility and connectivity, alongside the hybridised practices of social actors.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990363

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Online publication date: March 2021

Online ISBN: 9781108990363

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