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Abstract This study examines the relationship between two European powers : Nazi Germany and Great Britain and two main elements of the Palestinian Question before 1948: Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism. It explores German policy, particularly the Ha’arava Agreements, toward two major Palestinian crises that began in 1936. These crises were read more »

A key element of the Jesuit mission program on the frontiers of Spanish America was to recast the social structure, religion and world view, and work habits of the different native groups congregated on the missions. The goal was to create stable politically autonomous sedentary native communities on the model read more »

A Response to Edward L. Farmer's How Comparison Led Me to World History and Globalization Global networks of communication and personalized communication devices, their forms and capabilities changing and morphing almost, daily, have erased barriers of time and space that formerly separated us.  Physical borders still exist, national identities still read more »

In the early 1580s, the Mughal ruler Jalal al-Din Muhammad Akbar brought to his court scholars from many of the religious traditions followed in the Mughal Empire, building for them the Ibadat Khana (“House of Worship”), where they could discuss their beliefs and practices in front of the emperor. These read more »

Abstract In communist China, the return of eugenics, together with the one-child policy since the 1980s, was to reverse Mao Zedong’s policy of population expansion in order to supply manual labor for productivity. This article explores Chinese geneticists who survived the anti-Rightist campaigns and the Cultural Revolution, reinvented themselves and read more »

Traditionally, scholars of British initiative against slavery and the slave trade have focused more upon the Caribbean and the trans Atlantic slave trade but have devoted less attention to British endeavors in other non Western parts of the world.   For example, the historian Howard Temperley’s much cited book, British AntiSlavery, read more »

I was drawn to world history as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota where I had the great fortune of working with Professor Edward L. Farmer, an early innovator in the realm of comparative approaches to studying and teaching world history. I am forever indebted to Ted for read more »

Edward Farmer offered some very flattering views on my essay and my career, for which I am grateful. His comments are especially appreciated coming from a scholar of Farmer’s stature and accomplishments. In his interesting reflections on his own career and how he became a world historian Farmer reveals some read more »

ABSTRACT: In response to the theme of border crossing proposed by Professor Craig Lockard in his “Crossing Borders: Disciplines, Cultures and Histories,” the author considers her own intellectual and professional “border crossings” and suggests the theme of “middle ground” as a prompt for furthering world historical research, teaching, and professional read more »

Abstract: The Legacy of the Estado da India The Portuguese arrived in India in 1498; yet there are few apparent traces of their presence today, ‘colonialism’ being equated almost wholly with the English. Yet traces of Portugal linger ineradicably on the west coast; a possible basis for a cordial re-engagement read more »

Abstract: Events within a fifteen-year period in mid-eighth century Eurasia included the Abbasid revolution, An Lu-shan’s Rebellion in Tang China, and the collapse or emergence of empires from Frankish Europe to Tibet to the kingdom of Srivajaya. Rather than study these events in isolation, this paper views the interconnected peoples read more »

I have always loved a good biography, so Dr. Farmer’s “How Comparison Led Me to World History and Globalization” was a delight.  Having had a fairly convoluted career path myself, I appreciate a complex life with lots of twists and turns.  For one thing, it’s so historical.  And I especially read more »

This essay was inspired by Craig A. Lockard’s “Crossing Borders: Disciplines, Cultures, and Histories.” It reflects how the author’s perspective has changed over a career of university teaching and research in Chinese, Asian, and world history. It describes a comparative approach to the study and teaching of global history.   read more »

We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Professor Lockard, who not only contributed the keynote article for this roundtable, but also expended considerable time and energy responding to the other contributors. Professor Edward Farmer's equally generous and thoughtful article in response to Professor Lockard's essay will serve as the keynote to read more »

The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked read more »

Edited by Jeanne E. Grant  It was with great interest that I read Dr. Lockard's case for various kinds of border crossing as a means to facilitate student and faculty engagement in the world around them. As Lockard's career with one University of Wisconsin comprehensive university ends, mine has just read more »

Edited by Jeanne E. Grant It was a pleasure to read Professor Lockard's essay and reflect on the central points of his "last lecture," Crossing Borders: Disciplines, Cultures, and Histories. It is wonderful that Paul Jentz and Liang Hong-Ming decided to request responses to Lockard's piece for inclusion in the read more »

It is quite gratifying that my musings in the Last Lecture prompted the editors to seek responses from a few of my fellow world history teachers and scholars. I appreciate their mostly generous appraisals of my work and delighted that they found the essay thought-provoking enough to engage with some read more »

A Response to "Crossing Borders: Disciplines, Cultures, and Histories" by Dr. Craig A. Lockard, UWGB Dr. Lockard has provided us with much to ruminate not least of which is how to teach students of world history to navigate the border crossings he has outlined.  World history surveys involve teaching wide read more »

Based on the author’s long career as a university teacher and scholar, this essay discusses how interdisciplinarity, studying other cultures, and learning world history offer paths and insights to help us as teachers and our students to better understand the multicultural, globalized, and rapidly changing world we live in.      read more »