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Seeking a paradigm to understand the full impact of twentieth-century urbanization, Howard Spodek takes an historical look at the concept of cites, as they first developed from nomadic to village existence about 15,000 years ago, to the establishment of the first major cities about 5,000 years ago, and to urban industrialiaztion that took place about 200 years ago

This booklet is for those who want to do history. We hope that it will provide you with guidance to help you reach that goal.

In this fascinating study, Ely examines the legal history of Federalism from its inception in the early American Republic as an abstract and limited concept, throughout its development in the nineteenth century into a more tangible and ubiquitous presence in the daily lives of average Americans.

This booklet provides important information about studying history at colleges and universities across the United States. Through clear graphs and informal prose, readers will find hard data, practical advice, and answers to common questions about the study of history and the value it affords to individuals, their workplaces, and their communities.

"An earlier version of this essay was published as "A More Perfect Union: The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution," in The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution, eds. Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 388-406. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press (http://global.oup.com/academic)"

This collection of essays provides a wide array of perspectives on the relationship between research and teaching in historians' professional practice.

Historian Lawrence B. Glickman examines the cultural turn, which focuses on new sub-fields, such as disability history, visual studies, and identity, to show how cultural history has become the dominant historiographical method of the past 20 years

This booklet provides an outline of the key technological developments in ancient Greek and Roman society, including the provision of food, water, and shelter, building, textiles, and mining and metallurgy, as well as the key economic mechanisms that supported those developments.

In this essay, Edwards surveys recent scholarship in these burgeoning fields, and illustrates effectively how many previous assumptions, especially pertaining to women's history, have been overturned.

The scholarship of enviromental history has grown into a major historiographical field of study within the past 20 years, and Sarah T. Phillips looks at how this emerging field has been applied within the broader context of American history.

For better or for worse, capitalism is the philosophy that has come to define the United States. In this intriguing essay, Beckert takes a look at the historigraphy of American capitalism, which has been, according to Beckert, ironically neglected by historians until recently.

Prominent historian Alan Taylpr updates and summarizes scholarly advancements in the historiography of American colonialism in this short essay.

This essay traces the changing field of the history of the United States in the world, moving through the "cultural turn" and the "transnational turn" of historiography up to the present.

Moya and McKeown examine the concept of mass migration as it developed as a new socioeconomic phenomenon in the nineteenth century, and its impact on world culture throughout the twentieth century.

The Zheng family enterprise occupied a critical position as a political authority and successful commercial operation in the complex space of maritime East Asia in the 17th Century. Xing Hang argues that the family "profoundly shaped the maritime Asian world region and the global order."

In this essay, Weisbrode examines the historic and global context of regionalism in America by looking at the dueling concepts of Americaand Americanism, focusing on their continual intellectual redefinition throughout the 18 and 19th centuries, and their impact on regionalism in the modern era

Kevin Gaines presents an incisive overview of recent developments in the field of African American history, focusing on significant contributions such as slavery and the slave trade, segregation in both the South and North, and the longcivil rights movement.

In an attempt the challenge the traditional exceptionalist view of American history, Guarneri bridges the gap between American and world history, and furthers a budding relationship between them.

Student assessment is as old as the historical profession itself. By addressing recent new developments in student assessment, and challenging today's historians to exercise a new level of sensitivity and self-consciousness in evaluating their students' learning, this pamphlet hopes to stimulate ongoing discussions about changes in student assessment.

European colonization of the Americas was shaped by three mass demographic transformations: the catastrophic decline of Native American populations, the forced migration of enslaved Africans, and the mass relocation of European populations to American settings. This essay focuses on the third of these developments. While European emigration to the Americas can be seen as a single, widely differentiated but coherent whole, most scholarship treats it in fragments. We offer a hemispheric perspective on the process of European emigration, considering all of the Americas from 1492 until circa 1800, when most of the hemisphere was becoming independent of direct European rule. We argue that this migration unfolded in three long eras. The foundations of colonial enterprise were laid in the sixteenth century, especially in the two great population centers of the Americas, where the Aztecs and Incas had already established thriving empires. The seventeenth century saw a dramatic proliferation of colonial sites, widespread experimentation with new labor regimes and patterns of social organization, and an acceleration of transatlantic immigration. By the eighteenth century, the essential characteristics of the various colonies were becoming clear and many regions experienced growth and diversification as emigrants responded to new transatlantic opportunities.

Rudi Volti explores the economical, political, cultural, and social events that propelled the technological advances of the airline industry. From more advanced airplanes to better security and safety, Volti also presents how the contributions of air travel have shaped the world that we live in today.

This reference guide is a must-read for all history students that addresses the hows of history papers, and presents technical information to aid in the process of researching, writing and documenting.

Bonnie Smith examines the changing role of women throughout the twentieth century--in the workplace, poltically, economically, and culturally through the lens of world history.