Sources for Patterns of World History: Volume Two Since 1400

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199399735 ISBN 13: 9780199399734

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Designed specifically to accompany Patterns of World History, 2e, Sources for Patterns of World History, 2e provides approximately 150 primary sources that extend and deepen the investigations raised in the text. Numberous bundling options with Patterns of World History, 2e are available.
Compiled by Jonathan Perry
Wide range of sources: textual, visual, historical, literary.
Sources provide firsthand, contemporary reactions to important events.
Each source is accompanied by a headnote and discussion questions.
Footnotes explicate words students may not have previously encountered.

About the Author:

Dr. Jonathan Scott Perry is an Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. Dr. Perry earned degrees at Ohio University (double B.A.s in History and Latin) and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A. and Ph.D in History), and he has taught at a number of American and Canadian colleges, including Chapel Hill, Brevard College (N. Carolina), the University of Central Florida (Orlando), York University (Toronto), and USF-SM. He has published a series of articles on, among other topics, classical scholarship in Fascist Italy, Latin epigraphy (the study of inscriptions), sport terminology in the ancient world, and women and Greek athletics. His first book, The Roman Collegia: The Modern Evolution of an Ancient Concept (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006), traces the development of a Roman concept from 1843 through the 20th century and to the present, and it has been nominated for two national book prizes this year.