The Thinking Past: Questions and Problems in World History to 1750 is based on the premise that asking questions and evaluating sources represents an insightful way to study world history. Authors Adrian Cole and Stephen Ortega believe that the classroom experience of debating different issues, such as the origins of war and the nature of empire, serves as a solid foundation for actually thinking about world history. FEATURES * Questions-based approach: Each chapter in The Thinking Past is based on a question that has been generated in an actual class discussion * Examines major problems and ideas in world history--technology, religion, global trade, participatory politics, and more * Organized thematically, with a chronological progression that preserves a strong narrative flow * Uses both primary sources and the latest research to convey the sense that "history" is part of an ongoing debate across many disciplines * "Flipped classroom" approach asks students to learn material outside of class so they can engage in discussion when they come to class

The Thinking Past: Questions and Problems in World History to 1750

History

Cole, Adrian

Ortega, Stephen

World

Oxford University Press

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focusing principally on Ottoman Muslims who came to Venice and its outlying territories, and using sources in Italian, Turkish and Spanish, this study examines the different types of power relations and the social geographies that framed the encounters of Muslim travelers. While Stephen Ortega does not dismiss the idea that Venetians and Ottoman Muslims represented two distinct communities, he does argue that Christian and Muslim exchange in the pre-modern period involved integrated cultural, economic, political and social practices. Ortega's investigation brings to light how merchants, trade brokers, diplomats, informants, converts, wayward souls and government officials from different communities engaged in similar practices and used comparable negotiation tactics in matters ranging from trade disputes, to the rights of male family members, to guarantees of protection. In relying on sources from archives in Venice, Istanbul and Simancas, the book demonstrates the importance of viewing Mediterranean history from a variety of perspectives, and it emphasizes the importance of understanding cross-cultural history as a negotiation between different social, cultural and institutional actors.

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Ottoman-Venetian Encounters (Transculturalisms, 1400-1700)

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Routledge

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