![]() Curtis, Voyages in World History (Wadsworth CENGAGE Learning, first edition, 2010 second edition, 2013, third edition 2016) is an introductory textbook that takes readers on thirty-two different journeys – starting with Mungo Man’s voyages to Australia forty thousand years ago and ending with Ai Weiwei’s travels around the world.In between, students travel to Mesopotamia with Gilgamesh, to Africa and Arabia with a Muslim on the Hajj, to Peru with a cross-dressing nun, and to the New World with the slave Equiano. ![]() ![]() In 2017, Oxford University Press released an expanded edition for classroom use entitled, The Silk Road: A New History with Documents, which includes fifty-two primary sources in translation. This book draws on the continuing stream of archeological discoveries and philological breakthroughs to explain how this very modest commercial artery became the world’s most famous cultural superhighway. The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford University Press, 2012) presents an integrated political, social, and religious history of the Tarim Basin. Award-winning historian Valerie Hansen who teaches Chinese and world history at Yale University offers a well-researched, engaging and original portrait. ![]()
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