Places of Encounter, Volume 1: Time, Place, and Connectivity in World History, Volume One: To 1600

by Aran MacKinnon and Elaine McClarnand Mackinnon

Book Overview

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 have produced historical shockwaves and significant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813347378
• ISBN13: 9780813347370
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.8"