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Places of encounter, time, place, and connectivity in world history, Aran MacKinnon, Elaine MacKinnon, editors, Volume Two

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Places of encounter, time, place, and connectivity in world history, Aran MacKinnon, Elaine MacKinnon, editors, Volume Two

Language

eng

Abstract

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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Includes bibliographical references

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Places of encounter

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electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Aran MacKinnon, Elaine MacKinnon, editors

Sub title

time, place, and connectivity in world history

Table Of Contents

1 CAPE TOWN: At the Cross-Currents of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds (1500-1800) / Aran S. MacKinnon, University of West Georgia -- 2 SALVADOR DA BAHIA: A South-Atlantic Colonial Crossroads (1549-1822) / Christopher Ebert, Brooklyn College, City University of New York -- 3 NAGASAKI: Fusion Point for Commerce and Culture (1571-1945) / Lane Earns, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh -- 4 LONDON: Emerging Global City of Empire (1660-1851) / Dana Rabin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -- 5 GORÉE: At the Confluence of the Atlantic, Saharan, and Sahelian Worlds (1677-1890) / Trevor R. Getz, San Francisco State University -- 6 PARIS: City of Absolutism and Enlightenment (1700s) / Charles T. Lipp, University of West Georgia -- 7 CALCUTTA: A Central Exchange Point for Widely Separate Worlds (1700-1840) / Jonathan E. Brooke, William Carey University -- 8 SHANGHAI: From Chinese Hub Port to Global Treaty Port (1730-1865) / Christopher A. Reed, Ohio State University -- 9 ALGIERS: A Colonial Metropolis Transformed to a Global City (ca. 1800-1954) / Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona -- 10 GALLIPOLI: War's Global Concourse (1915) / Edward J. Erickson, Marine Corps Command and Staff College -- 11 ST. PETERSBURG: The Russian Revolution and the Making of the Twentieth Century (1890-1918) / Elaine MacKinnon, University of West Georgia -- 12 KINSHASA: Confluence of Riches and Blight (1800s-1900s) / Didier Gondola, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis -- 13 BERLIN: A Global Symbol of the Iron Curtain (1945-1991) / Eliza Ablovatski, Kenyon College and Elaine MacKinnon, University of West Georgia -- 14 NEW YORK: Opportunity and Struggle in a Global City (1911-2011) / Gregory Smithsimon, Brooklyn College, City University of New York -- 15 DUBAI: Global Gateway in the Desert (1820-2010) / Neema Noori, University of West Georgia

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