The New World History A Teacher's Companion

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Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 1999-12-10
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

The New World History is a unique collection designed to help instructors prepare for the challenge of teaching world history. The editor, a leading voice for advancing the world history curriculum, has organized 50 articles into 11 pedagogically oriented chapters on topics such as arguments for and against teaching world history and the place of gender issues in world history. Each chapter includes approximately five selections; chapters open with a brief introduction and an outline of ongoing discussions among historians. An overview of the history of the course in this country, along with a review of the debates that surround it, appears in an introduction that sets the stage for the subsequent articles. Annotated bibliographies follow the selections to help foster ideas for further research.

Author Biography

ROSS E. DUNN is professor of history at San Diego State University. He has served as president of the World History Association and is the director of World History Projects at the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written books and articles on North African, Islamic, and world history, including The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century (1987) and is senior author of Links Across Time and Place, a world history textbook for high school students. As the historian who outlined teaching goals for world history in high schools, Dunn was at the center of the culture wars debate with his work on the National Standards for World History (1994). He and coauthors Gary B. Nash and Charlotte Crabtree wrote about their experiences with the standards in History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past (1997).

Table of Contents

  Preface
    
  Introduction
  World History after World War II
  Search for Alternatives to the Western Civ Model
  Toward a New World History
    
PART ONE: WORLD HISTORY TEACHING OVER TIME
    William O. Swinton, Outlines of General History
    Lawrence W. Levine, Looking Eastward: The Career of Western Civ
    Harry J. Carman, The Columbia Course in Contemporary Civilization
    Gilbert Allardyce, Toward World History: American Historians and the Coming of the World History Course
    Craig A. Lockard, The Contributions of Philip Curtin and the "Wisconsin School" to the Study and Promotion of Comparative World History
    Selected Bibliography
    
PART TWO: THREE ARGUMENTS FOR TEACHING WORLD HISTORY – AND TWO REMONSTRATIONS
    L. S. Stavrianos, The Teaching of World History
    William H. McNeill, Beyond Western Civilization: Rebuilding the Survey
    Marilyn Robinson Waldman, The Meandering Mainstream: Reimagining World History
    J. H. Hexter, Introductory College Course in Non-American History: An Ethnocentric View
    Jacob Neusner, It Is Time to Stop Apologizing for Western Civilization and to Start Analyzing Why It Defines World Culture
    Selected Bibliography
    
PART THREE: REDEFINING WORLD HISTORY: SOME KEY STATEMENTS
    Marshall G. S. Hodgson, Hemispheric Interregional History as an Approach to World History
    Geoffrey Barraclough, The Prospects of World History
    Eric R. Wolf, Connections in History
    Philip D. Curtin, Depth, Span, and Relevance
    William H. McNeill, The Changing Shape of World History
    Selected Bibliography
    
PART FOUR: INTERREGIONAL AND SUPERREGIONAL HISTORY
    Edmund Burke III, Marshall G. S. Hodgson and the Hemispheric Interregional Approach to World History
    Lynda Shaffer, Southernization
    John Obert Voll, "Southernization" as a Construct in Post-Civilization Narrative
    David Christian, Inner Eurasia as a Unit of World History
    Patrick Manning, Migrations of Africans to the Americas: The Impact on Africans, Africa, and the New World
    Selected Bibliography
    
PART FIVE: WORLD SYSTEMS AND WORLD HISTORY
    Craig A. Lockard, Global History, Modernization and the World System Approach: A Critique
    Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis: Five Questions in Search of a New Consensus
    Fernand Braudel, Economies in Space: The World Economies
    Andre Gunder Frank, A Plea for World System History
    John Obert Voll, Islam as a Special World System
    Selected Bibliography
    
PART SIX: TEACHING REGIONS AND CIVILIZATION IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
    Julia Clancy-Smith, The Middle East in World History
    William F. Sater, Joining the Mainstream: Integrating Latin America into the Teaching of World History
    John F. Richards, Early Modern India in World History
    Tara Sethia, Teaching India in a World History Survey
    Donald Johnson, The American Educational Tradition: Hostile to a Humanistic World History?
    Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen, Geography in the Historical Imagination
    Selected Bibliography
    
PART SEVEN: PERIODIZING WORLD HISTORY
    Peter N. Stearns, Periodization in World History: Identifying the Big Changes
    Jerry H. Bentley, Cross-Cultural Interactions and Periodization in World History
    William A. Green, Periodizing World History
    National Center for History in the Schools, World History Standards for Grades 5-12
    Selected Bibliography
    
PART EIGHT: COMPARISONS AND THEMES
    Michael Adas, Global and Comparative History
    Philip D. Curtin, The Comparative World History Approach
    Helen Wheatley, The World and the Northwest: The Fur Trade, Regional History, and World History: An Essay Celebrating the Teaching Scholarship of Philip Curtin
    Steve Gosch, Cross-Cultural Trade as a Framework for Teaching World History: Concepts and Applications
    Davis R. Smith, Teaching Religions in the Medieval Period
    Selected Bibliography
    
PART NINE: GENDER IN WORLD HISTORY
    Ida Bloom, World History as Gender History: The Case of the Nation State
    Judith P. Zinsser, Technology and History: The Women's Perspective: A Case Study in Gendered Definitions
    Sarah S. Hughes, Gender at the Base of World History
    Judith P. Zinsser, And Now for Something Completely Different: Gendering the World History Survey
    Selected Bibliography
    
PART TEN: CONSTRUCTING WORLD HISTORY PROGRAMS AND CURRICULA
    George E. Brooks, An Undergraduate World History Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century
    Thomas W. Davis, Starting from Scratch: Shifting from Western Civ to World History
    John Rothney, Developing the Twentieth-Century World History Course: A Case Study at Ohio State
    Michael F. Doyle, "Hisperanto": Western Civilization in the Global Curriculum
    Edmund Burke III and Ross E. Dunn, Michael Doyle's Views on Western Civ: A Comment and Counterproposal
    Jerry H. Bentley, Graduate Education and Research in World History
    Philip D. Curtin, Graduate Teaching in World History
    Patrick Manning, Doctoral Training in World History: The Northeastern University Experience
    Selected Bibliography
    
PART ELEVEN: THE FUTURE OF WORLD HISTORY
    Jerry H. Bentley, New Directions
    Michaels Geyer and Charles Bright, World History in a Global Age
    David Christian, The Case for "Big History"
    Jared Diamond, The Future of Human History as a Science
    Selected Bibliography
    
  Index

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