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 | Personalities & Problems: Interpretive Essays in World Civilization, Volume II, 3rd Edition
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 | | Ken Wolf, MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY
| | Softcover, 224 pages | | ©2005, ISBN-13 9780072565669 | | | Publisher's Retail Price:$23.13
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| | Bookstore's Wholesale Price:$18.50
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| | | Description |
Assuming no previous knowledge of history, Personalities and Problems is a unique collection of original essays about real people whose lives or careers demonstrate solutions to problems of their times. Each chapter focuses on a problem or issue and illustrates it by discussing the lives of two historical figures (actual or near contemporaries of each other) whose careers illustrate the richness and variety of history.
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| Table of Contents |
Preface
1. Prince Henry and Zheng He: Sailing South
2. Elizabeth and Akbar: The Religion of the Ruler?
3. Kangxi and Louis XIV: Dynastic Rulers, East and West
4. Bacon and Galileo: The New Science
5. Burke and Condorcet: Are People Perfectible?
6. Toussaint and Tecumseh: Resisting the Odds
7. George Sand and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Exploring "Women's Sphere"
8. Bismarck and Ito: Conservatives and Constitutions
9. Chimwere and York: Heroes in Two Worlds
10. Hitler and Stalin: Ideas and Personality?
11. Eva Peron and Golda Meir: Helping the Dispossessed-Two Models
12. M. K. Gandhi and Ho Chi Minh: Paths to Independence
13. Teller and Sakharov: Scientists in Politics
14. King and Mandela: The Prophet and the Politician
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| About the Authors |
Ken Wolf is Professor of History at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, where he has taught since 1969. He received his B.A. degree from St. Ambrose College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Notre Dame. Professor Wolf helped design Murray State's World Civilizations course and has taught it since its inception. He also teaches courses in the Development of Historical Thinking. Professor Wolf has published articles on European nationalism, historiography, intellectual history, and the teaching of history in The Journal of the History of Ideas, The International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences-Biographical Supplement, Teaching History, the Illinois Quarterly, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, and the AHA Perspectives. For five years Professor Wolf served as a dean of the Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program, and has recently helped start The Commonwealth Honors Academy at Murray State. He was selected as a Pew Faculty Fellow in International Affairs for 1993-94. He and his wife, Deanna, a social worker, have three children and four grandchildren.
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| New Features |
A new final chapter focuses on Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr..
The text has been updated to reflect new publications and new scholarship; for example, Chapter 13 now addresses the death of Edward Teller.
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