1st Edition
Places of Encounter, Volume 1 Time, Place, and Connectivity in World History, Volume One: To 1600
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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Places of Encounter provides a place-based approach to world history, focusing on specific locations at critical moments when human history was transformed as a result of encounters-physical, political, cultural, intellectual, and religious. Original, contributed essays by leading academics in the field explore places from Hadar to Xi'an, Salvador to New York, and numerous other locations that... Read more
Primary Documents’ Credits , Preface , Hadar , Makapansgat and Pinnacle Point , Babylon , Athens , Xian , Carthage , Constantinople/Istanbul , Mecca , Kilwa , Varanasi , Samarkand , Venice , Potosà , Malacca
Biography
Aran MacKinnon is professor of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of An Introduction to Global Studies and The Making of South Africa: Culture and Politics.Elaine McClarnand MacKinnon is professor of history at the University of West Georgia. She is the editor and translator of Mass Uprisings in the USSR.
