UNIT 1 RESOURCES

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• Cartographical Constructs
• Units of Analysis
• Chronological Constructs

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UNIT 1: Maps, Time, and World History

UNIT REFERENCES

• Deborah Smith Johnston, Rethinking World History: Conceptual Frameworks for the World History Survey, (2003), available through UMI, Microfilm dissertation network.
• Jerry Bentley, "Sea and Ocean Basins as Frameworks of Historical Analysis," Geographical Review 89, no.2 (April 1999): 215-25.
• Arif Dirlik,"The Asia-Pacific Idea: Reality and Representation in the Invention of a Regional Structure," Journal of World History, no.1 (1992): 55-79.
• David Christian, "The Case for 'Big History,'" Journal of World History (Fall1991): 223-38.
• Peter Nabokov, A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
• Nancy Farriss, "Remembering the Future, Anticipating the Past: History, Time, and Cosmology among the Maya of Yucatán," Comparative Studies in Society and History 29 (1987): 566-93.
• Karen Wigen and Martin Lewis, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).

FEATURED SOURCE MATERIAL

• Arno Peters, twentieth-century cartographer
• Fernand Braudel, twentieth-century historian
• Lakota elder