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Volume 10 • Number 2

June 2013


Editor's Message
Jerry H. Bentley Dedicated to Jerry H. Bentley
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FORUM: Travelers and Traveler's Accounts in World History, Part 2

Introduction: Using the Forum on Travelers and Traveler's Accounts
Guest Editor: Mary Jane Maxwell, Green Mountain College
 
Korean Explorations between Civilization and Barbarism in the Eighteenth Century,
including a translated excerpt of Hong Taeyong's Dialogue at Mount Ŭimuryŏ
by Sungshin Kim
   
From Imposter to Imperialist: Ludovico de Varthema's Journey from Italy to India, 1502–1508  
by Mary Jane Maxwell  
   
Medieval Muslim Women's Travel: Defying Distance and Danger  
by Marina Tolmacheva  
   
"The Impractical Scheme of a Visionary:" Thomas Stevens and the Quest to Travel Round the World on a Bicycle  
by Gabrielle Porter and Tom Taylor  
   
Teaching the Old China Trade: A 'Glocal' Approach in Early American Travelogues  
by Dane Morrison  
   

Articles

 
Teaching about Haiti in World History: An Introduction  
by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall  
   
Most Exquisite Curiosities of Nature and Art: The Dutch East India Company, Objets d'Art and Gift Giving in Early Modern Japan  
by Michael Laver  
   
Mapping Student Learning: Course Assessment using Concept Maps in a World History Survey Course  
by Benjamin Reilly  
   
Digital Resources for Travel Writing and Travel Narratives in World History  
by John Maunu  
   

Review Article

 
Using Food History Texts in the World History Classroom: A Review Essay  
by Michael McInneshin  
   

Book Reviews

 
Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron, and Meera Balarajan, Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future  
by Jonathan Dresner  
   
David Potter, The Victor's Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium  
by David Dry  
   
Christopher I. Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present  
by Terry D. Goddard  
   
Walter Johnson, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom  
by Guy Lancaster  
   
Alan L. Karras, Smuggling: Contraband and Corruption in World History  
by Andrae Marak  
   
Christian Meier, A Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe  
by Michael McCoy  
   
   
Books available for review  

 


 
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