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New World
History
Nicole F. Gilbertson
New World History
After WW2:
• Study the World, not only the West
• Move beyond an examination of nation-states
• Emphasis on social history
More recently:
• Close relationship between research and
teaching
• Professionalization of the field
• Link to other fields of historical research, such
as culture and gender
Sources: Ross Dunn editor, The New World History: Teacher’s Companion
Marnie Hughs-Warrington editor, World Histories
New World History Methods
• Historical inquiry and use of evidence
• Consider the “Big Picture”
– Decenter Europe
– Address continuity and change
– Employ the environment as a category
of analysis
– Thematic approach
– Compare and contrast areas and events
Decentering Europe
Examining how the world was
interconnected before 1492
Examples:
the spread of Islam
studying the plague
Source: Janet Abu-Lhugod, Before European Hegemony
Addressing continuity
and change
History is a study of change over time
Need also to consider how things stay the
same
Example:
After the break-up of the Roman Empire,
political boundaries in Europe are different,
however, the language and religion of
Rome continue on to shape medieval
Europe
Thematic Approach:
Comparing and contrasting
Identifying a concept, area, or event and
examining how this is similar or different in
another time and/or location
Example: studying the concept of Empire as
way to examine the 7th grade standards
Technology
• PPT is located at UCI History Project
website:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/ucihp/
• To create a video using pictures and music:
go to animoto.com
• To create a PPT to download to your Ipod,
save the PPT as jpegs in a folder on your
desktop and download it to your Ipod