Study & Teaching

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820433851Author Bjorg GundemFormat PaperbackPage Count 367Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 560g

A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching environmental history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future...

A Primer for Teaching Digital History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching digital history for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy. It can also serve those who are training future...

Approaching Haiti's history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti's complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest...

Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past is a comprehensive consideration of the role of empathy in historical knowledge, informed by the literature on empathy in fields including history, psychoanalysis, psychology, neuroscience,...

The civil rights movement transformed the United States in such fundamental ways that exploring it in the classroom can pose real challenges for instructors and students alike. Speaking to the critical pedagogical need to teach civil rights history...

Reconstructing Marxism explores fundamental questions about the structure of Marxist theory and its prospects for the future. The authors maintain that the disintegration of the old theoretical unity of classical Marxism is in part responsible for what...

No topic in U.S. history is as emotionally fraught as the nation's centuries-long entanglement with slavery. How can teachers get students to understand the racist underpinnings of that institution-and to acknowledge its legacies in contemporary America?...

History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events...

What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922703Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Who is the historian? What do historians do? Where do their explorations take them? What is the impact of the digital age on historical research? In an affable style, Nigel A. Raab answers these questions for those intrigued by the past. Each chapter...

Since empathy first emerged as an object of inquiry within British history education in the early 1970s, teachers, scholars and policymakers have debated the concept's role in the teaching and learning of history. Yet over the years this discussion has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999671016Author Elexus JiondeFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Intelexual MediaPublisher Intelexual MediaWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Historians generally-and Marxists in particular-have presented the revolution of 1789 as a bourgeois revolution: one which marked the ascendance of the bourgeois as a class, the defeat of a feudal aristocracy, and the triumph of capitalism. Recent...

From the Cast-Iron Shore is part personal memoir and part participant-observer's educational history. As president emeritus at Williams College in Massachusetts, Francis Oakley details its progression from a fraternity-dominated institution in the 1950s...

A generally acknowledged characteristic of modern life, namely the temporalization of experience, inextricable from our intensified experience of contingency and difference, has until now remained largely outside psychology's purview. Wherever questions...

The fall of 2016 saw the release of the widely popular First World War video game Battlefield 1. Upon the game's initial announcement and following its subsequent release, Battlefield 1 became the target of an online racist backlash that targeted the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820444246Author Tom A. O'DonoghueFormat HardbackPage Count 183Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 390g

American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself-and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn's hundredth birthdayTruth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the...

It is a cliche that history is written by the victors, but what we accept as history is replete with stories of great men and events that either never happened or didn't happen the way we were told they did. Such items are taught in schools. They are...

For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political alliances, doled out foreign aid, mounted cultural campaigns, and launched covert operations. The Cold War...

Just as society has changed dramatically over the last century, so have the social sciences. This valuable reference chronicles the historical development of social studies as a discipline in elementary and secondary schools. It also assesses the current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369370235Author Freeman TildenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 544g

How do scholarship and practices of remembrance regarding Nazi Germany benefit from digital tools and approaches? What challenges arise from "doing history digitally" in this field - and how should they best be dealt with? The eight chapters of this...

This volume presents the thinking and the activities of some of the most serious and successful practitioners of world history. The fifteen contributors are experience historians from ten countries dispersed across five continents. Their essays confirm...

American Studies has only gradually turned its attention to video games in the twenty-first century, even though the medium has grown into a cultural industry that is arguably the most important force in American and global popular culture today. There...

This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and authenticity, examines portrayals of women in historical periods or...

The past decades public interest in history is booming. This creates new opportunities but also challenges for professional historians. This book asks how historians deal with changing public demands for history and how these affect their professional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950051472Author Cynthia L SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.Publisher Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 349g

While video games have blossomed into the foremost expression of contemporary popular culture over the past decades, their critical study occupies a fringe position in American Studies. In its engagement with video games, this book contributes to their...

Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment, offering new worlds to explore and inhabit. Like buildings, cities, and gardens before them, these virtual environments express meaning and communicate ideas and affects through the spatial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498022750Author Cuthbert BedeFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732726017Author Xavier E N SpringsFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint EpnPublisher EpnWeight(grams) 95g

Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship, showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to show that food is never just food but rather a complex means of...

With respect to public issues, history matters. With the worldwide interest for historical issues related with gender, religion, race, nation, and identity, public history is becoming the strongest branch of academic history. This volume brings together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732944152Author Bishop George W BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Lee's PressPublisher Lee's PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498053631Author Ella Adelia FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497973664Author Sir Oliver LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647480035Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 318g