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Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
  • Language: en

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

A World History textbook specifically designed for the new AP(R) World History curriculum.

World Together, Worlds Apart: With Sources
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1024

World Together, Worlds Apart: With Sources

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-01-06
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  • Publisher: W. W. Norton

The most accessible textbook built around the AP(R) World History curriculum

Smuggling
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Smuggling

In this lively book, Alan L. Karras traces the history of smuggling around the world and explores all aspects of this pervasive and enduring crime. Through a compelling set of cases drawn from a rich array of historical and contemporary sources, Karras shows how smuggling of every conceivable good has flourished in every place, at every time. Significantly, Karras draws a clear distinction between smugglers and their more popular criminal cousins, pirates, who operated in the open with a type of violence that was nearly always shunned by smugglers. Explaining the divergence between the two groups, the book illustrates both crossovers and differences. At the same time, states and empires tole...

Encounters Old and New in World History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Encounters Old and New in World History

This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their own academic areas of interest, are experienced scholars and classroom teachers. Uniting them together in this volume is their professional relationship with Jerry H. Bentley (1949–2012). This shared connection served as a catalyst to showcase Bentley’s enduring legacy: a commitment to investigating large-scale questions with detailed empirical evidence that explains the human condition—do...

Seascapes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Seascapes

Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world. The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that inform and explain historical experiences of maritime regions. Another set discusses efforts—some more successful than others—to impose political and military control over maritime regions. A third group focuses on issues of social history such as labor organization, information flows, and the development of political consciousness among subaltern populations. The final essays deal with pirates and efforts to control them in Mediterranean, Japanese, and Atlantic waters.

Sojourners in the Sun
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Sojourners in the Sun

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Not everyone who left Europe for the American colonies in the eighteenth century intended to settle there permanently. Sojourners in the Sun traces the history of the well-educated, middle-class Scots who migrated from Britain to Jamaica and the Chesapeake colonies of Maryland and Virginia. Seeking to improve their positions at home, they saw the New World as nothing more than a place to make a quick fortune. They intended to return as soon as possible, with as much as possible. Alan L. Karras examines the identity and origins of these transients from the Scottish perspective and characterizes the occupational diversity (or its absence) in Jamaica and the Chesapeake. He uses detailed biograp...

World Medievalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

World Medievalism

Explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present.

Dark Inheritance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Dark Inheritance

A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, she shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status.

Legacies of British Slave-ownership
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

Legacies of British Slave-ownership

This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.