This innovative and user-friendly workbook, now combined into a single volume organized chronologically, guides students and instructors through the ideas and methods of world history. Designed to be used either as a stand-alone text or as a companion to a more traditional text, this hands-on book provides all the elements necessary to support a world history course, including narrative, projects, primary sources, and a detailed glossary of terms. David Hertzel uses the guiding argument that world history is the heritage of every student's own family, culture, language, and values. He asks students to examine historical "universals" such as language, genealogy, myth, literature, religion, and archetypes. Rather than provide exhaustive coverage of each of these vast topics, the workbook provides judiciously selected historical examples as models that can launch discussions suitable to the needs of a particular class. The projects guide readers to recognize universals in their own lives and societies, allowing instructors and students to pursue historical themes in a constructive and open environment. The thoughtful readings and questions address moral issues involving freedom, equality, and justice, and the projects are designed to be used in a discussion or Socratic method in classes of all sizes. Despite the rigor of the comparative method and the extensive use of primary material, the workbook retains a simple but powerful theme and approach, making it accessible to students from a wide range of educational and social backgrounds.
List of Projects Introduction Chapter 1: What is History? Chapter 2: The Grand Narrative: Universals in History Chapter 3: Contrasting Concepts in Religious Traditions Chapter 4: Confucianism and Humanism Chapter 5: Humanism Comes to Define the "Western" Identity, 1500-1900 Chapter 6: The Individual and the Institution in History Chapter 7: Modernization Chapter 8: Globalization Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Silk Road Appendix of Primary Resources 1. Socrates: A Socratic Dialogue between Meno and Socrates, Recorded by Plato, 380 B.C.E. 2. An Anglo-Saxon Blessing for the Fields (Late Ancient Europe) 3. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) 4. Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision Act (Enacted and Revised from 1994-2013) 5. The Sermon on the Mount (circa, 28 C.E.) 6. Life among the Zulu: Three Texts (1870) 7. Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" (1897) 8. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Approved by the National Assembly of France, August 26, 1789) 9. An American Scientist in Early Meiji Japan (1868-1912) 10. The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894) Leo Tolstoy 11. Confucius (circa 551-479 B.C.E.) 12. Bill Clinton on Globalization (2004) 13. We are not Monkeys, We are Human Beings (June, 2002) 14. Documents on the Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern-Central Europe (1945-1950) 15. Documents of Humanity (1945-1950) 16. Pilgrims on Fu-Ji (1879) 17. Industrial Manchester, 1844 and the Conditions of Women Working in the English Mines (1842) 18. Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project 19. Two Articles on the Discoveries at Blombos Cave (2002) 20. Hymn to the Nile, A Prayer from Ancient Egypt (Middle Egypt, or New Kingdom, Date Uncertain) 21. Code of Hammurabi (Selected Laws) (circa 1780 B.C.E.) 22. The Mahabharata (before 1000 B.C.E.) 23. From the Hymns of Homer (circa700 B.C.E.) Glossary About the Author
