1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451799703321

Autore

Stearns Peter N.

Titolo

Cultures in Motion : Mapping Key Contacts and Their Imprints in World History / / Peter N. Stearns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-281-72174-3

9786611721749

0-300-12828-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 p.)

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

Civilization - History

Acculturation - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Early Cultural Contacts Through the Classical Period -- Part II. Postclassical and Early Modern Periods, 450-1750 CE -- Part III. The Modern Centuries -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

When different cultures come in contact with one another, the impact on the course of history can be dramatic and unexpected. Encounters between separate societies or civilizations have resulted in the spread of major religions, vast migrations, scientific breakthroughs, the dissemination of powerful political notions, and many other transformations. This unique book brings to life key episodes of cultural contact in world history, from the beginnings of civilization to the present. Through a combination of vivid case studies and imaginative color maps, award-winning history professor Peter Stearns shows how we can better understand world history by examining what happens when culture meets culture. One culture's new contact with another can lead to assimilation, rejection, or--most often--a merging of elements from both cultures. Stearns focuses on fourteen important historical examples of intercultural exchange from around the globe. He considers:• the spread of major religions, such as Buddhism and



Islam• voluntary and forced migrations, such as the Jewish and African diasporas• the dissemination of modern forces, including nationalism and Marxism• the impact of European colonial rule on gender relations in India and in Africa• recent international diffusion of consumer culture• and much more For each example, original maps reveal geographic patterns and provide a clear sense of the impact of that particular meeting of cultures.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798845403321

Titolo

Connexions : histories of race and sex in North America / / edited by Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer L. Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urabana, Chicago, Springfield, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-252-09881-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 pages)

Classificazione

SOC001000REL105000SOC028000

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Race - Social aspects - United States - History

Sex - Social aspects - United States - History

Sex role - United States - History

United States Race relations History

United States Social conditions

United States History Philosophy

United States Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer L. Morgan -- Part 1. Deep Connections -- With Only a Trace : Same-Sex Sexual Desire and Violence on Slave Plantations, 1607-1865 / Jim Downs -- Historical Methods and Racial Identification in U.S. Lesbian and Gay History / Julian B. Carter -- Race, Class, and the U.S. Supreme Court's Doctrine of Heteronormative Supremacy / Marc Stein -- Part 2. Beauty



and Desire -- Early American Bodies : Creating Race, Sex, and Beauty / Sharon Block -- Making Racial Beauty in the United States : Toward a History of Black Beauty / Stephanie M.H. Camp -- The Soul of the Boy Was...Aztec : Race and Sexuality in Ramón Novarro's Self-Narrative / Ernesto Chávez -- Part 3. Subjectivities -- Power and Historical Figuring : Rachael Pringle Polgreen's Troubled Archive / Marisa J. Fuentes -- The Curse of Canaan, or, A Fantasy of Origins in Nineteenth-Century America / Brian Connolly -- Mapping Sex, Race, and Gender in the Corps of Discovery Expedition / Wanda S. Pillow -- If We Got That Freedom : "Integration" and the Sexual Politics of Southern College Women, 1940-1960 / Susan K. Cahn -- Strange Love : Searching for Sexual Subjectivities in 1950's Black Print Popular Culture / Leisa D. Meyer -- Out and on the Outs : the 1990's Mass Marches and the Black and LGBT Communities / Deborah Gray White.

Sommario/riassunto

"Connexions investigates the ways in which race and sex intersect, overlap, and inform each other in United States history. An expert team of editors curates thought-provoking articles that explore how to view the American past through the lens of race and sexuality studies. Chapters range from the prerevolutionary era to today to grapple with an array of captivating issues: how descriptions of bodies shaped colonial Americans' understandings of race and sex; same-sex sexual desire and violence within slavery; whiteness in gay and lesbian history; college women's agitation against heterosexual norms in the 1940's and 1950's; the ways society used sexualized bodies to sculpt ideas of race and racial beauty; how Mexican silent film icon Ramon Navarro masked his homosexuality with his racial identity; and sexual representation in mid-twentieth-century black print pop culture. The result is both an enlightening foray into ignored areas and an elucidation of new perspectives that challenge us to reevaluate what we 'know' of our own history. Contributors: Sharon Block, Susan K. Cahn, Stephanie M. H. Camp, J. B. Carter, Ernesto Chavez, Brian Connolly, Jim Downs, Marisa J. Fuentes, Leisa D. Meyer, Wanda S. Pillow, Marc Stein, and Deborah Gray White"--



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910142547303321

Titolo

Förder-Ranking : Institutionen, Regionen, Netzwerke / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bonn, : DFG, 1997-2009

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Disciplina

000

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Gesehen am 19.07.18