Milestone Docs in World History available for pre-order
I’m happy to close the work week by linking to the product page that Salem Press has set up for our forthcoming 4-volume set Milestone Documents in World History. This page tells librarians and educators everything they need to know about the set when considering a purchase. But even casual readers will enjoy glancing through the model entry, Lin Zexu’s Letter to Queen Victoria of 1839. As the historian Q. Edward Wang of Rowan University points out in his detailed analysis, “The letter was, in effect, an ultimatum made by Commissioner Lin on behalf of the Qing emperor to the English monarch, delivering the unmistakable message that he and the Qing government were determined to ban the selling and smoking of opium once and for all and at any cost.”
Educators can see from the model that each entry in our set offers questions for further study to accompany the expert analysis and full text of the primary document. Not yet on display, but also in the print set, will be several classroom activity guides written by our consulting editor, the educator Cathleen Boivin. Do you use document-based learning in your classroom? If so, you’ll find the set to be extremely useful all across the world history curriculum.
Basic details: $395, 4 volumes, free online with purchase, ready November 2009.
Oh, and check out our beautiful new cover, courtesy of Patricia Moritz!