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[Enhanced Credo edition]. |
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1 online resource (20 entries) : 26 images ; digital files. |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Hadar: The Legacy of Human Ancestors (4,000,000-100,000 BCE) / Christopher Howell -- Makapansgat and Pinnacle Point: Three Million Years of Human Evolution in South Africa (3,000,000-2,000 BCE) / Andy I. R. Herries -- Babylon: Rise of a Complex Urban Civilization (ca. 3700-539 BCE) / Melanie Sue Byrd -- Athens: The Cradle of Western Civilization (900 BCE-324 CE) / Nadejda Popov -- Xian: Eastern Gateway and Strategic Citadel (1049 BCE-907 CE) / Keith N. Knapp -- Carthage: Gateway to the World Beyond the Mediterranean (ca. 800 BCE-700 CE) / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Constantinople/Istanbul: A Vortex of Peoples and Cultures (324-1500) / Nina Ergin -- Mecca: Pilgrimage and the Making of the Islamic World (400-1500) / Michael Christopher Low -- Kilwa: A Commercial City in the Economic and Cultural Cross-Currents (1000-1500) / Erik Gilbert -- Varanasi: The Microcosm of India and Exemplar of Balance (ca. 1200-1600 CE) / Nita Kumar -- Samarkand: Political and Economic Hub Connecting East and West (1220-1660) / Reuel R. Hanks -- Venice: A Center of International Exchange in the Renaissance World (1350-1550) / Maritere López -- Potos: A Motor of Global Change (1545-1600s) / Jane E. Mangan -- Malacca: Cosmopolitan Trading Port of the Early Modern World (1500-1824) / Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
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 encountersphysical, political, cultural, intellectual, and religious. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
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Cultural relations -- History -- Sources.
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Cultural relations -- History.
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Social change -- History -- Sources.
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Social change -- History.
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Cities and towns -- History -- Sources.
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Cities and towns -- History.
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World history -- Sources.
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World history.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
McClarnand MacKinnon, Elaine, editor.
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MacKinnon, Aran S., editor.
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Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0813347378 9780813347370 (DLC) 2012000612 xxx, 250 p. : ill., maps |
| ISBN |
0813347386 (v. 1 : ebook) |
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9780813347387 (v. 1 : ebook) |
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0813347378 (v. 1 : print) |
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9780813347370 (v. 1 : print) |
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9781784020279 (online) |
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