Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
World history has expanded dramatically in recent years, primarily as a teaching field, and increasingly as a research field. Growing numbers of teachers and Ph.Ds in history are required to teach the subject. They must be current on topics from human evolution to industrial development in Song-dynasty China to today's disease patterns - and then link these disparate topics into a coherent course. Numerous textbooks in print and in preparation summarize the field of world history at an introductory level. But good teaching also requires advanced training for teachers, and access to a stream of new research from scholars trained as world historians. In this book, Patrick Manning provides the first comprehensive overview of the academic field of world history. He reviews patterns of research and debate, and proposes guidelines for study by teachers and by researchers in world history.
Liked Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times Shares world history, history, global history -
The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century Shares world history, history, global history -
The Wilsonian Moment: Self Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism Shares world history, history, global history -
This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity Shares world history, history, nonfiction
