Hansen Valerie, Curtis Kenneth R. Voyages in World History 1/2

Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2008. — 1058 p.The authors of Voyages in World History never forget that history is made up of the stories of people. Each chapter of the text centers on a story - a traveler's account that highlights the book's main theme, the constant movement of people, goods, and ideas. The travelers include merchants, poets, rulers, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, and scholars, and their voyages provide a framework for each chapter that will draw you into the intriguing stories of world history. Special features help you make connections across chapters, societies, and time periods as you explore the people, places, and events crucial to understanding world history and its global context.Valerie Hansen received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. She is Professor of History at Yale University, where she teaches courses in East Asian history, especially pre-modern China. Her many scholarly publications include Changing gods in medieval China, 1127-1276 (Princeton UP, 1990) and Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600-1400 (Yale UP, 1995). She is also author of The Open Empire: A History of China to 1800 (WW Norton, 2000) and The Silk Roads: A New History (Oxford UP, 2012). As co-author of the Cengage Learning text Voyages in World History, she contributes Chapters 1-15.Kenneth R. Curtis received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in African and Comparative World History. His research focuses on colonial to postcolonial transitions in East Africa, with a particular focus on the coffee economy of Tanzania. He is Professor of History and Liberal Studies at California State University Long Beach, where he has taught world history at the introductory level, in special courses designed for future middle and high school teachers, and in graduate seminars. He has worked to advance the teaching of world history at the collegiate and secondary levels in collaboration with the World History Association, the California History/Social Science Project, and the College Board's Advanced Placement World History course.