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Volume 10 • Number 1

February 2013

 
     
  Editor's Message  
     
 

FORUM: Travelers and Traveler's Accounts in World History, Part 1

 
  Introduction: Using the Forum  
  Guest Editor: Mary Jane Maxwell  
     
  Exploring Africa: Suggestions for Using Travel Literature  
  by David Northrup  
     
  Travel and Travelers in Medieval Eurasia  
  by Dan Waugh  
     
  Cook's Passage: An English Spy in the Yucatan  
  by Matthew Restall  
     
  The Road to Peace: Horace's Fifth Satire as Travel Literature  
  by Erik Jensen  
     
  Russia Encounters Islam: Merchant Narratives and the Early Modern Global Economy  
  by Matthew Romaniello  
     
  Early Asian Travelers to the West: Indians in Britain, c.1600–c.1850  
  by Michael H. Fisher  
     
 

Researching and Teaching Controversial Subjects: A Mini-Forum

 
  What the Vietnam War and the Buddha Can Teach about Researching, Teaching, and Writing on Controversial Subjects  
  by Jeffrey Race  
     
  "The Gods Must Be Crazy:" Comedy and Controversy in an Apartheid-era South African Film?  
  by Zack Farmer  
     
 

Articles

 
  Beyond Memorization: Rethinking Maps in the History Classroom  
  by Clara Webb  
     
  Narrating the Hong Kong Story: Deciphering Identity through Icons, Images and Trends  
  by Catherine S. Chan  
     
  China's "Prominent Christians" a Prosopographical Analysis of the Biographical Dictionary of Republican China  
  by David Lindenfeld  
     
  Engaging Students to Become Global Citizens: Redefining the Role of World History Teachers to Become Facilitators and Problem Solvers.  
  by James A. Diskant  
     
 

Book Reviews

 
  Davidann, Jon Thares and Marc Gilbert. Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History  
  by Heather Streets-Salter  
     
  Jerry H. Bentley, ed., The Oxford Handbook of World History  
  by Jon Davidann  
     
  John R. Chávez, Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World, 1400–2000  
  by Lisa M. Edwards  
     
  Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference  
  by Paula Hastings  
     
  Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Gender in History: Global Perspectives  
  by Marjorie Hunter  
     
  Karen Barkey, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective  
  by Dave Neumann  
     
  Valerie Hansen and Kenneth R. Curtis, Voyages in World History: Brief Edition  
  by Maryanne Rhett  
     
     
  Books available for review  
Jerry H. Bentley Dedicated to Jerry H. Bentley
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