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First Published in 2018. Using a place-based approach by focusing on specific locations at critical historical moments of historical transformation, Places of Encounter provides a unique alternative to world history anthologies or survey texts.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, providing a breadth of information for survey courses in world history.
Contents
CAPE TOWN: At the Cross-Currents of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds (1500-1800), SALVADOR DA BAHIA: A South-Atlantic Colonial Crossroads (1549-1822), NAGASAKI: Fusion Point for Commerce and Culture (1571-1945), LONDON: Emerging Global City of Empire (1660-1851), GORÉE: At the Confluence of the Atlantic, Saharan, and Sahelian Worlds (1677-1890), PARIS: City of Absolutism and Enlightenment (1700s), CALCUTTA: A Central Exchange Point for Widely Separate Worlds (1700-1840), SHANGHAI: From Chinese Hub Port to Global Treaty Port (1730-1865), ALGIERS: A Colonial Metropolis Transformed to a Global City (ca. 1800-1954), GALLIPOLI: War's Global Concourse (1915), ST.PETERSBURG: The Russian Revolution and the Making of the Twentieth Century (1890-1918), KINSHASA: Confluence of Riches and Blight (1800s-1900s), BERLIN: A Global Symbol of the Iron Curtain (1945-1991), NEW YORK: Opportunity and Struggle in a Global City (1911-2011), DUBAI: Global Gateway in the Desert (1820-2010)
