Study & Teaching

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545618967Author Jerry ManionFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Mill City Press, Inc.Publisher Mill City Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789788457855Author Obaro IkimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint BookcraftPublisher BookcraftWeight(grams) 408g

What and how to teach in the K-16 classroom history has been a perennial and, at times, heated debate. Beginning as early as 1892, the question of what knowledge is of the most worth and what should be the central function of the history curriculum...

A volume in International Review of History Education Series Editors Peter Lee, Rosalyn Ashby, Stuart Foster The 6th book of the International Review of History Education Series, Contemporary public debates over history education, presents public debates...

The book on the history of Russian philosophical thought of the nineteenth century deals with six important representatives in the sharply present context of the ideological dispute between East and West. The author has chosen for analysis such Russian...

The book offers a historical and methodological update of founding historical themes and moments, and a methodological review more than ever necessary of current interpretations of the History of Sardinia between the Early Middle Ages and the Modernity...

The heightened resonance of identity-driven politics in many states across twenty first century Europe emphasizes the critical role of history in shaping public contestation of the idea of the nation, and accordant manifestations of nationalism and...

These are the letters received and sent by Charles Henry Brown between the years 1847 and 1864. As an aeronaut, Brown’s lifelong obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia. While his aeronautical endeavours met with...

What if researchers interested in ‘the past’ used their noses? This open access book makes the case for a more imaginatively interdisciplinary approach to sensory heritage and history, arguing that we can and should engage our noses as a research tool...

The Learning and Teaching potential of historical physical and digital games is increasingly undeniable at every level of study. These games can provide a foundation of information through their stories and worlds. They can foster understanding of...

What and how to teach in the K-16 classroom history has been a perennial and, at times, heated debate. Beginning as early as 1892, the question of what knowledge is of the most worth and what should be the central function of the history curriculum...

Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media including theatre and film, historical reenactments and living history performances, operas, and video games.Taking historians as storytellers, this book...

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) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441556455Author William K VogelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 152g

Historians have long been interested in knowledge - its nature and origin, and the circumstances under which it was created but it has only been in recent years that the history of knowledge has emerged as an academic field in its own right. In...

To learn about the ""Age of Revolutions"" in Europe and the Americas is to engage with the emergence of the modern world. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, nations were founded, old empires collapsed, and new ones arose. Struggles...

First published in 1958, Detachment and the Writing of History collects essays and letters by Carl L. Becker in which the noted historian outlines his views on the study of history, the craft of the historian, the art of teaching, and the historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982624463Author Anthony J FitzpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint American Institute for History EducationPublisher American Institute for...

Few areas of study offer more insight into American culture than competitive sports. The games played throughout this nation's history dramatically illuminate social, economic, and cultural developments, from the balance of power in world affairs to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990775928Author Gail C TracyFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Elevated Educational Resources, LLCPublisher Elevated Educational Resources,...

A manual addressed to students rather than to teachers or researchers, Oral History: An Introduction for Students is unique among the ""how to"" books in the field, adapting some of the best methods of group oral history projects to the needs of...

In the midst of the heated battles swirling around American humanities education, Peter Stearns offers a reconsideration not of what we teach but of why and how we teach it. A humanities program, says Stearns, should teach students not just memorized...