Daily Life through History

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978-1-59884-557-0

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Travel through time and across the globe with Daily Life through History.

Daily Life through History provides students and researchers with insights into the rich social and cultural landscape of world history. The primary and secondary sources of this comprehensive collection support coursework and deeper subject engagement with resources addressing the social history of societies ranging from the Aboriginal peoples of Australia to the citizens of 21st-century China. With an advisory board that includes renowned social historian Peter N. Stearns, Daily Life through History explores 66 distinct cultures, including the Inca Civilization, the Han Dynasty, Medieval Europe, and Postwar America with scholarly contributions by distinguished academic voices like Joseph Byrne, Harold J. Goldberg, and James Volo, as well as more than 5,000 primary sources and images for direct analysis.

Highlights

Authoritative reference content from hundreds of volumes of Greenwood reference works, especially the renowned "Daily Life through History" series of titles.
More than 5,000 images and primary sources, including cultural documents, photographs, and illustrations that offer fresh insights into history.
More than 125 thesis-driven scholarly articles from leading academics such as Aaron Barlow, Alfred W. Crosby Jr., Robert André LaFleur, and Kirsten Wolf that tackle complex and compelling topics such as the impact of the crusades, the Columbian Exchange, and Japanese internment in the United States.

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Contributions from more than 3,000 field scholars and real-time updates ensure researchers are always accessing relevant and credible material. Across all 14 databases, investigations into critical topics yield three integrated but distinct content components to support thesis-driven research:

Original journal articles, authored by leading academics and vetted by advisory boards of credentialed experts, that offer varied viewpoints on the complexities and nuances inherent in the discipline to serve as both sources and exemplars of evidence-based scholarly thought,

A robust reference library that draws from 200,000+ primary and secondary sources, including media and data,

And a course companion, comprised of both text and video lectures, designed to reinforce coursework or drive independent study.

Highlights

Coverage spans the humanities, from core disciplines like American history to emergent fields of study, including modern genocide and popular culture.
All material is authored by accomplished academics and vetted by database-specific advisory boards, while daily updates across the suite ensure that database content evolves to reflect changing understandings and developments in the field.
Both browsing and linear learning are supported by the databases' topic center structure, with each topic center housing a variety of relevant content including primary sources, reference material, and journal articles.
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Advisory Board

Rob Kiely is an adjunct assistant professor of liberal arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kiely has also delivered many lectures at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois. He received his PhD from Northwestern University, where he studied the history of ideas and the history of science. His awards include a National Science Foundation Research Grant, an Outstanding Teaching Award from Northwestern University, and the Faculty of the Year Award from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Peter N. Stearns is Professor of History and Provost Emeritus at George Mason University. Professor Stearns has written widely on world and emotions history, including two popular textbooks. Other books include A History of Shame (forthcoming), The Industrial Turn in World History (forthcoming), Guiding the American University: Challenges and Choices, Doing Emotions History, Gender in World History, Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society, Childhood in World History, and American Fear: The Causes and Consequences of High Anxiety, among many others. He also edited the Encyclopedia of World History, 6th edition. Before coming to George Mason University, Professor Stearns taught at the University of Chicago, Rutgers University, and Carnegie Mellon University. He served as vice president of the American Historical Association, Teaching Division, from 1995 to 1998. He was also founder and editor of the Journal of Social History from 1967 to 2015.

Michelle Tusan is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research and teaching interests are in the field of British, gender, and imperial history. She published Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain in 2005; Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East in 2012; and is currently writing a book on the Armenian Genocide.

Topic Centers

Prehistory, Beginnings to 1000 BCE • Aboriginal Australia • Prehistoric Europe • The Fertile Crescent	Africa, 3000 BCE–1500 CE • Medieval Africa	Spheres of Influence, 1776–1914 • Tokugawa Japan • 19th Century Latin America • Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa • Qing China • Colonial Australia • British India
Egypt and the Near East, 3200–500 BCE • Ancient Egypt • Hebrew World	The Americas, 3000 BCE–1500 CE • Anasazi Culture • Cahokia • Inca Civilization • Mesoamerica and South America Before 1500	The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Nationalism, 1800–1914 • Civil War America • American West • Industrial America • Victorian England
Ancient Asia, 3000 BCE–500 CE • The Indus Valley • Han Dynasty	Central and East Asia, 500–1500 • Dynastic China • Mongol Empire • Heian Japan	The World at War, 1914–1945 • 1920s America • Japanese Internment
Ancient Greece, 2000–30 BCE • Minoan Civilization • Mycenaean Culture • Athens and Sparta	The Middle Ages, 500–1500 • Carolingian Europe • Viking Age • Medieval Europe • Black Death	The Cold War Era, 1945–1991 • Soviet Union • 20th Century India • 20th Century Japan • 20th Century Latin America • Europe in the 20th Century
Ancient Rome, 1000 BCE–500 CE • Roman Empire	The Emergence of Modern Europe, 1500–1700 • Reformation • Elizabethan England • Renaissance Europe • Spanish Inquisition	A New Millennium, 1991–present • Contemporary America • China in the 21st Century • Modern Russia • Modern Vietnam • Islam in the Modern World
The Byzantine Empire and Russia, 300–1500 CE • Byzantine Empire • Kievan Rus	The World Beyond Europe, 1500–1776 • Age of Sail • North America in the Age of Discovery • Mesoamerica and South America in the Age of Discovery • Plains Indian World • Colonial North America • Colonial Latin America • British and Dutch Africa
The Islamic World, 600–1500 CE • Early Muslim World • Ottoman Empire	The Age of Reason and Revolutions, 1700–1800 • Enlightenment Europe • 18th Century England • Revolutionary America

Reviews/Endorsements

Reviews

"ABC-CLIO's Daily Life through History database does a fine job of elucidating similarities and differences across time. . . .This easily searchable compilation of more than 75 Greenwood reference works offers a wide range of historical information that would certainly augment classroom lessons on any of the historical eras covered. Best used as a teacher-directed resource initially, this multifaceted database is a sound addition to high-school and college libraries."—AEP

"Daily Life through History is an affordable, incomparable tool for high school and undergraduate students needing broad overviews of historical eras. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general audience."—Choice

Awards

2019 Silver Award — Modern Library Awards

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