 | Communication in a changing world New communication technologies are being developed rapidly and made more widely available, although their transfer is taking place through private investment global media markets are now dominated by a mere handful of transnational 8.52 Kb.  1 | read |
| Ralph bauer 3126 Tawes Hall Department of English and Comparative Literature University of Maryland, College Park, md 20742 Some of the topics we will consider include the literatures of the European discovery and conquest, the cultural encounters in the early Americas, colonialism and colonial cultures, the independent movements 109.22 Kb. 1 | read |
| C. Chase-Dunn and B. Lerro, Social Change. Forthcoming, Allyn and Bacon But it was in Europe and its colonial empires that these institutions were able to take hold most strongly and to direct the fundamental dynamics of social change to so great an extent that we can speak of the first world-system in which capitalism was the 435.09 Kb. 8 | read |
 | The End of Puritanism: American Perception of Sexuality from 1950s up to today We have decided to research the main factors that played drastic role in the changing process of that perception. It was proposed to divide the project into time periods for the sake of better understanding of progression of the events and references of the 57.81 Kb. 1 | read |
| Faq on Glassmaking in 1632 by Iver P. Cooper Ivf concentrates on up-time techniques which might be feasible in 1632, while this faq is more concerned with what is already going on down-time. However, there is some overlap with respect to types of glass and uses of glass 89.51 Kb. 1 | read |
| The Inka: An Andean Empire Inka empire is profound. It exercised power directly over some 85 ethnic groups, themselves originally fragmented into many autonomous units (Rowe 1946: 186-98), and over many diverse environments with special crops and unusual resources 61.15 Kb. 1 | read |
| History of Latin America I Americas. The second third of the class will examine the colonial world, and in the final section, we will discuss the slavery and the movement towards independence 28.53 Kb. 1 | read |
 | Introduction to the Middle Ages Bce to the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 ce. Medieval times span the years from the fall of Rome to Columbus’s arrival in America in 1492. For the sake of simplicity, medieval times are said to have begun in 500 and to have ended in 1500 11.04 Kb. 1 | read |
| You will not receive another copy! Attention! Achtung! Early exploration of the Americas during the fifteenth century was originally dominated by which nation? 473.71 Kb. 7 | read |
| Florence is widely considered as the birthplace of the Renaissance. In what ways did Florentine artists and scholars contribute to the development of painting during the period?” 26.09 Kb. 1 | read |
| Excerpted from Adams, Laurie Schneider, a history of Western Painting. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997, 250-255 32.04 Kb. 1 | read |
| Unit 6 – origins and destinations of atlantic slave trade unit Question: How did migration create systems of power and dominance? Document 1 interviews in jamaica, 1793 West Indies In this excerpt, he summarizes his interviews with Jamaican slaves, in which he asked how they became enslaved. After speaking twice with each of 25 persons, he concluded that fifteen were born into slavery in Africa, five were 43.52 Kb. 1 | read |
| Mr. Dunbar ap european History Chapter 10 Outline: Renaissance and Discovery Section One: The Renaissance in Italy Jacob Burckhardt, a Swiss historian, described the Renaissance as the “prototype of the modern world” in his book Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) 69.59 Kb. 1 | read |
| Women in the later medieval English economy: past perspectives, new directions The following essay was submitted unsuccessfully to a journal for publication. Readers may be interested in the following anonymous reader’s report, quoted verbatim in full 110.99 Kb. 3 | read |
| Chapter nineteen Queen Victoria, Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm, Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II, a female figure representing France, and the Meiji emperor of Japan 157.77 Kb. 2 | read |