tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/textbooks?commit=Go&page=3&term=Western+Civilization%3A+A+Concise+HistoryOpen Textbook Library - Search results for "Western Civilization: A Concise History"2018-09-07T17:22:02Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png4462018-09-07T17:22:02Z2024-03-25T13:05:36ZMusic: Its Language, History, and Culture<img alt="Read more about Music: Its Language, History, and Culture" title="Music: Its Language, History, and Culture cover image" class="cover " width="1084" height="1407" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mzc1LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--cb07d99d3c663126694d18896f6fda6341a94bfc/0000MusLanHis.png" />Welcome to Music 1300, Music: Its Language History, and Culture. The course has a numberof interrelated objectives:1. To introduce you to works representative of a variety of music traditions.These include the repertoires of Western Europe from the Middle Agesthrough the present; of the United States, including art music, jazz, folk, rock, musical theater; and from at least two non-Western world areas (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Indian subcontinent).2. To enable you to speak and write about the features of the music you study,employing vocabulary and concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre,and form used by musicians.3. To explore with you the historic, social, and cultural contexts and the role of class, ethnicity, and gender in the creation and performance of music,including practices of improvisation and the implications of oral andnotated transmission.4. To acquaint you with the sources of musical sounds—instruments and voices fromdifferent cultures, found sounds, electronically generated sounds; basic principlesthat determine pitch and timbre.5. To examine the influence of technology, mass media, globalization, and transnationalcurrents on the music of today.The chapters in this reader contain definitions and explanations of musical terms and concepts,short essays on subjects related to music as a creative performing art, biographical sketchesof major figures in music, and historical and cultural background information on music fromdifferent periods and places.4672018-09-07T17:22:04Z2024-01-22T14:51:56ZThe History of Our Tribe: Hominini<img alt="Read more about The History of Our Tribe: Hominini" title="The History of Our Tribe: Hominini cover image" class="cover " width="701" height="897" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mzk1LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--41f3ac0c6562cd101f2e860ecb461ce50cd193f1/9781942341406.png" />Where did we come from? What were our ancestors like? Why do we differ from other animals? How do scientists trace and construct our evolutionary history? The History of Our Tribe: Hominini provides answers to these questions and more. The book explores the field of paleoanthropology past and present. Beginning over 65 million years ago, Welker traces the evolution of our species, the environments and selective forces that shaped our ancestors, their physical and cultural adaptations, and the people and places involved with their discovery and study. It is designed as a textbook for a course on Human Evolution but can also serve as an introductory text for relevant sections of courses in Biological or General Anthropology or general interest. It is both a comprehensive technical reference for relevant terms, theories, methods, and species and an overview of the people, places, and discoveries that have imbued paleoanthropology with such fascination, romance, and mystery.6482018-12-14T22:58:00Z2024-01-22T14:52:18ZAmerican Environmental History<img alt="Read more about American Environmental History" title="American Environmental History cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="443" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NTg2LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--b12c89661058526a3c16514c4178b300fab12635/9781981731732.jpg" />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.6712019-02-23T00:47:22Z2024-01-22T14:52:13ZCanadian History: Post-Confederation<img alt="Read more about Canadian History: Post-Confederation" title="Canadian History: Post-Confederation cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjE1LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--8218395b22d36de5bc25fe24300e46ddbc0982cd/0000CanHisPos.jpg" />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?7602019-08-24T21:16:28Z2024-01-22T14:52:18ZHistory of International Relations<img alt="Read more about History of International Relations" title="History of International Relations cover image" class="cover " width="483" height="599" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzE0LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--b719ab1a15081811a0c97e0f74ac8323123cf0ab/978-1-78374-024-6.png" />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.8882020-07-19T22:03:30Z2024-01-22T14:52:08ZOregon’s History: People of the Northwest in the Land of Eden<img alt="Read more about Oregon’s History: People of the Northwest in the Land of Eden" title="Oregon’s History: People of the Northwest in the Land of Eden cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTI4MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--0b40aba041144567e2c9319ccc5bbf023201f675/oregonhistoy.jpg" />This “open textbook” is a social and cultural history of the people of Oregon representing powerful figures from the dominant Euro-American culture, the marginalized and oppressed, and social and political reformers who shaped the historical legacy of the state. It is a story of the diverse array of immigrants who helped build the state and strengthen it. The title is a recollection of the racial fantasies that European-American settlers created in their expansionist vision of the West and the state of Oregon. Initially the Oregon Territory was built on intolerance and racial exclusivity, but eventually Oregon embraces its diversity, but not without struggle and heartache. Our journey through the past starts with an essential question, “Who are the people of Oregon?”9492021-01-12T00:17:32Z2024-01-22T14:52:21ZModern World History<img alt="Read more about Modern World History" title="Modern World History cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="496" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTkzNSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--b633944ac0e852f73bc3f273a14a8113b1d2c4f3/NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise-350x496.jpg" />Welcome to Modern World History! This is the textbook for an undergraduate survey course taught at all the universities and most of the colleges in the Minnesota State system. Similar courses are taught at institutions around the United States and the world, so the authors have made the text available as an open educational resource that teachers and learners can read, adapt, and reuse to meet their needs. We’d like to hear from people who have found the text useful, and we’re always open to questions and suggestions.9812021-03-28T05:22:31Z2024-03-22T21:52:16ZAn Outline History of East Asia to 1200<img alt="Read more about An Outline History of East Asia to 1200" title="An Outline History of East Asia to 1200 cover image" class="cover " width="613" height="770" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjY3MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--a1f625415e10e57b493779b10d58a601c80f2817/Capture.JPG" />This is the second edition of the open access textbook that arose out of a course at the University of California, San Diego, called HILD 10: East Asia: The Great Tradition. The course covers what have become two Chinas, Japan, and two Koreas from roughly 1200 BC to about AD 1200. As we say every Fall in HILD 10: “2400 years, three countries, ten weeks, no problem.” The book does not stand alone: the teacher should assign primary and secondary sources, study questions, dates to be memorized, etc. The maps mostly use the same template to enable students to compare them one to the next. The 1st edition is in the supplemental material tab.10122021-06-26T18:59:59Z2024-01-22T14:52:26ZHistory and Science of Cultivated Plants<img alt="Read more about History and Science of Cultivated Plants" title="History and Science of Cultivated Plants cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjQ0OSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--172a41162f1cdd5c4f1d5524bae37a1ac75748f6/History-and-Science-of-Cultivated-Plants-350x453.png" />History and Science of Cultivated Plants narrates how humans transitioned from foragers to farmers and have arrived at present-day industrial agriculture-based civilization. It entails myths, historical accounts, and scientific concepts to describe how human efforts have shaped and produced easier to grow, larger, tastier, and more nutritious fruits, vegetables, and grains from wild plants. Using examples of various economically and socially important crops central to human civilization, the book describes the origin of crop plants, the evolution of agricultural practices, fundamental concepts of natural selection vs. domestication, experimental and methodical plant breeding, and plant biotechnology.10902021-10-15T23:33:50Z2024-01-22T14:52:28ZThe Bright Continent: African Art History<img alt="Read more about The Bright Continent: African Art History" title="The Bright Continent: African Art History cover image" class="cover " width="684" height="1024" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mjk3NywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--65bb5633e3f34d0b78a4265997f73fad2efc6691/BrightContinent_Cover_2500x3740-684x1024.jpg" />This book aims to act as your map through the world of African art. As such, it will help you define the competencies you need to develop–visual analysis, research, noting what information is critical, asking questions, and writing down your observations–and provide opportunities for you to practice these skills until you are proficient. It will also expose you to new art forms and the worlds that produced them, enriching your understanding and appreciation. This is an ongoing project. Your text will not be complete the day you first click on it, but will be written as we proceed through the course. Because it will be used for other courses beyond your own, you may find that it includes materials beyond those your class demands. Encourage your curiosity–chase after it.
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