| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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SUNY series in Asian studies development.
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| Contents |
Teaching the Silk Road ; Contents ; Introduction ; Chapter 1. Weaving with Silk: Using the Silk Roads to Organize World History Surveys Before 1500 ; Chapter 2. How to Use the Silk Roads in the European History Survey Course ; Chapter 3. The Silk Road and Chinese Identity, Past and Present ; Chapter 4. Silk Roads Studies in the Political Science Classroom ; Chapter 5. Teaching the Silk Road in Comparative Politics ; Chapter 6. Art and the Silk Road ; Chapter 7. Incorporating Nomads into the Curriculum, One Steppe at a Time ; Chapter 8. Philosophical Reflections on National Idenity |
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Chapter 9. Silk Roads, Service Learning, and Mythmaking Chapter 10. Taking Students along China's Silk Road ; Chapter 11. Mapping the Silk Road ; Chapter 12. Using Primary Sources to Teach the Silk Road ; Chapter 13. Flashes at the End of the Sky- My Personal Khotan on the Silk Road ; About the Authors ; Index ; A ; B ; C ; D ; E ; F; G ; H ; I ; J ; K ; L ; M ; N ; O ; P ; Q ; R ; S ; T ; U ; V ; W ; X ; Y ; Z |
| Summary |
The romance of the Silk Road journey, with its exotic locales and luxury goods, still excites the popular imagination. But study of the trade routes between China and central Asia that flourished from about 200 BCE to the 1500Æs can also greatly enhance contemporary higher education curricula. Indeed, with people, plants, animals, ideas, and beliefs traversing it, the Silk Road is both a metaphor of globalization and an early example of it |
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Teaching the Silk Road highlights the reasons to incorporate this material into a variety of courses and shares resources to facilitate that process. It is intended for those who are not Silk Road or Asian specialists but who wish to embrace a global history and civilizations perspective in teaching, as opposed to the more traditional approach that focuses on cultures in isolation. The book explores both classroom and experiential learning and is intentionally interdisciplinary. Each essay focuses on pedagogical strategies or themes that teachers can use to bring the Silk Road into the classroom |
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"This collection of essays and personal reflections allows the reader to listen in on a relaxed conversation on teaching the topic of the Silk Road. It offers a nice blueprint for integrating the Silk Road into new or existing curricula."ù J. Michael Farmer, author of The Talent of Shu: Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan |
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Jacqueline M. Moore is Professor of History at Austin College. She is the author of several books, including Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900. Rebecca Woodward Wendelken is Associate Professor of History at Methodist University. --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Trade routes -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Asia
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Education, Higher
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| SUBJECT |
Asia -- History -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Silk Road -- History -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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| Subject |
Asia
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Asia -- Silk Road
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wendelken, Rebecca Woodward
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Moore, Jacqueline M., 1965-
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| ISBN |
9781438431048 |
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143843104X |
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