Places of encounter : time, place, and connectivity in world history Volume one, To 1600
2013
eBook
Abstract: 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 encountersphysical, political, cultural, intellectual, and religious.
Main title:
Places of encounter : time, place, and connectivity in world history Volume one, To 1600 / Aran MacKinnon, Elaine MacKinnon, editors.
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Edition:
[Enhanced Credo edition].
Imprint:
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2013.Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, [2012]
Collation:
1 online resource (20 entries) : 26 images ; digital files.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.Description based on title page of print version.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Print version: xxx, 250 p. : ill., maps
Contents:
Hadar: The Legacy of Human Ancestors (4,000,000-100,000 BCE) / Christopher Howell -- Makapansgat and Pinnacle Point: Three Million Years of Human Evolution in South Africa (3,000,000-2,000 BCE) / Andy I. R. Herries -- Babylon: Rise of a Complex Urban Civilization (ca. 3700-539 BCE) / Melanie Sue Byrd -- Athens: The Cradle of Western Civilization (900 BCE-324 CE) / Nadejda Popov -- Xian: Eastern Gateway and Strategic Citadel (1049 BCE-907 CE) / Keith N. Knapp -- Carthage: Gateway to the World Beyond the Mediterranean (ca. 800 BCE-700 CE) / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Constantinople/Istanbul: A Vortex of Peoples and Cultures (324-1500) / Nina Ergin -- Mecca: Pilgrimage and the Making of the Islamic World (400-1500) / Michael Christopher Low -- Kilwa: A Commercial City in the Economic and Cultural Cross-Currents (1000-1500) / Erik Gilbert -- Varanasi: The Microcosm of India and Exemplar of Balance (ca. 1200-1600 CE) / Nita Kumar -- Samarkand: Political and Economic Hub Connecting East and West (1220-1660) / Reuel R. Hanks -- Venice: A Center of International Exchange in the Renaissance World (1350-1550) / Maritere López -- Potos:̕ A Motor of Global Change (1545-1600s) / Jane E. Mangan -- Malacca: Cosmopolitan Trading Port of the Early Modern World (1500-1824) / Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya.
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
9781784020279 (online)0813347378 (v 1 print)9780813347370 (v 1 print)0813347386 (v 1 ebook)9780813347387 (v 1 ebook)
Dewey class:
909
LC class:
D21.3
Language:
English
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BRN:
502304
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