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Guide to Ancient Near Eastern Art
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Ezra, Harris, and Zucker
Publisher: Smarthistory
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for Sumerian, Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian / Ur III, Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian art.
(2 reviews)
The American Yawp Vol. II: Since 1877
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Locke and Wright
Publisher: Stanford University Press
License: CC BY-SA
In an increasingly digital world in which pedagogical trends are de-emphasizing rote learning and professors are increasingly turning toward active-learning exercises, scholars are fleeing traditional textbooks. Yet for those that still yearn for the safe tether of a synthetic text, as either narrative backbone or occasional reference material, The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. Unchecked by profit motives or business models, and free from for-profit educational organizations, The American Yawp is by scholars, for scholars. All contributors—experienced college-level instructors—volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms.
(8 reviews)
The American Yawp Vol. I: To 1877
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Locke and Wright
Publisher: Stanford University Press
License: CC BY-SA
In an increasingly digital world in which pedagogical trends are de-emphasizing rote learning and professors are increasingly turning toward active-learning exercises, scholars are fleeing traditional textbooks. Yet for those that still yearn for the safe tether of a synthetic text, as either narrative backbone or occasional reference material, The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. Unchecked by profit motives or business models, and free from for-profit educational organizations, The American Yawp is by scholars, for scholars. All contributors—experienced college-level instructors—volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms.
(16 reviews)
History of International Relations
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributor: Ringmar
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
License: CC BY
Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the international systems that traditionally existed in Europe, East Asia, pre-Columbian Central and South America, Africa and Polynesia. The second part discusses the ways in which these international systems were brought into contact with each other through the agency of Mongols in Central Asia, Arabs in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, Indic and Sinic societies in South East Asia, and the Europeans through their travels and colonial expansion. The concluding section concerns contemporary issues: the processes of decolonization, neo-colonialism and globalization – and their consequences on contemporary society.
(2 reviews)
Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributors: Mellenthin and Shapiro
Publisher: Rebus Community
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Mythology Unbound
(5 reviews)
Western Civilization: A Concise History Volume 3
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributor: Brooks
Publisher: Portland Community College
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Western Civilization: A Concise History is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8,000 BCE to 2017 CE. It is available in three volumes covering the following time periods and topics:
(6 reviews)
Western Civilization: A Concise History Volume 2
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributor: Brooks
Publisher: Portland Community College
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Western Civilization: A Concise History is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8,000 BCE to 2017 CE. It is available in three volumes covering the following time periods and topics:
(3 reviews)
Western Civilization: A Concise History Volume 1
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributor: Brooks
Publisher: Portland Community College
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Western Civilization: A Concise History is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8,000 BCE to 2017 CE. It is available in three volumes covering the following time periods and topics:
(7 reviews)
Canadian History: Post-Confederation
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributor: Belshaw
Publisher: BCcampus
License: CC BY
This textbook introduces aspects of the history of Canada since Confederation. “Canada” in this context includes Newfoundland and all the other parts that come to be aggregated into the Dominion after 1867. Much of this text follows thematic lines. Each chapter moves chronologically but with alternative narratives in mind. What Aboriginal accounts must we place in the foreground? Which structures (economic or social) determine the range of choices available to human agents of history? What environmental questions need to be raised to gain a more complete understanding of choices made in the past and their ramifications?
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American Environmental History
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributor: Allosso
Publisher: Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project
License: CC BY-SA
For too long the environment has been considered little more than a neutral background to history. This text surveys findings of the new field of Environmental History about how the environment of the Americas influenced the actions of people here and how people affected their environments, from prehistory to the present.
(6 reviews)