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Ch. 1 Pre-Colombian Era (m35275)
Keywords: Agriculture, Aztecs, Cherokee, Chinampas, Chinook, Dragging Canoe, Hiawatha, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, Iroquois, Maya, Mississippian Society, Neolithic, Olmecs, Paleolithic, Potlatch, Pueblo, Te-mow-e-ne
Summary: This chapter examines the Amerindian cultures of what will become colonial North America.
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 53.72%
Revised: 2010-09-03
Revisions: New
Medieval to Early Modern Cultural Paradigm Shift (m16029)
Author: John Freed
Keywords: medieval, early modern, art, media,
Summary: Through tracing the evolution of a specific cultural meme -- the portrayal of David's killing Goliath -- the paradigm shift for the restructuring of Western culture from its medieval (more absolutist) to early modern (more relativist) periods is represented.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 90.13%
Revised: 2008-04-22
Revisions: New
Confucianism: The Way of the Gentleman (m23189)
Keywords: Chinese philosophy, Chinese religion, Confucianism
Summary: A brief introduction to the Confucian tradition of Chinese religion and philosophy.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 87.58%
Revised: 2009-05-11
Revisions: New
The End of the West (m15564)
Author: Sean Cleary
Keywords: framework for analysis, global economy, international relations
Summary: The prime challenge of our times is that we have created a global economy that is unmediated by a global polity, and lack the normative underpinnings that would sustain such a polity. We have also passed the peak of the Western, post-Cartesian paradigm that has shaped the world since ... the earth.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 51.95%
Revised: 2007-11-24
Revisions: 2
History of Western Art and Civilization (col10282)
Author: Beth Harris
Institution: Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY
Keywords: Art
Summary: Western Art and Civilization
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 91.64%
Revised: 2005-05-24
Revisions: New
Taoism: The way (m34449)
Keywords: China, Chinese, Daoism, Taoism
Summary: A Brief introduction to the Taoist philosophy and religion
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 36.96%
Revised: 2010-05-17
Revisions: New
Change Agents for the Cultural Paradigm Shift from Medieval to Early Modern (m16044)
Author: John Freed
Keywords: change agents, medieval, early modern, paradigm shift, culture, media
Summary: An itemized confluence of the change agents responsible for cultural paradigm shift from medieval to early modern circa 1453-1604.
Subject: Arts, Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 94.10%
Revised: 2008-04-23
Revisions: New
The Atlantic Ocean and Hemispheric Histories (col11310)
Keywords: Agriculture, Anti-Slavery, Atlantic, Colonial Economies, Colonialism, Gender, Labor, Migration, Olaudah Equiano, Sir William Berkley, Sugar, Virginia
Summary: This course includes a variety of modules concerning the Atlantic World and Atlantic economies. It allows students to study how the networks of the Atlantic intersected and overlapped with those of the Western Hemisphere. Topics include colonial economies, agriculture, slavery, gender, and anti-slavery print culture. This course also covers ... and themes.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 72.17%
Revised: 2011-10-11
Revisions: 6
Ch. 2 When Cultures Collide (1492-1600) (m35276)
Keywords: Americo Vespucci, Bartolome de las Casas, Chinese (1421), Colombian Exchange, Crisotobol Colon, Leif Erickson, Mercantilism, Protestant Reformation, Roanoke (1580s), Spanish Armada
Summary: This chapter examines the clash of Indian and European cultures in the Americas from 1492 to roughly 1600.
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 56.67%
Revised: 2010-09-03
Revisions: New
Shinto: The Way of the Gods (m23186)
Keywords: Japanese religion, Kami, Shinto
Summary: A brief introduction to Shinto, the native and traditional religion of Japan
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 17.53%
Revised: 2009-05-11
Revisions: New
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