The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Tour Through History from Ancient Times to the Present - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0313325413 ISBN 13: 9780313325410

Casa editrice: Greenwood Pub Group, 2004

Riassunto

Looks at the daily life of different cultures from six broad historical periods, discussing family life, recreation, religion, politics, snf the intellectual, and economic aspects of everyday life.

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JOYCE E. SALISBURY is Frankenthal Professor of History at University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She has a Ph.D. in Medieval History from Rutgers University. Professor Salisbury is an award-winning teacher. She was named CASE (Council for Advance and Support of Education) Professor of the Year for Wisconsin in 1991, and has brought her concern for pedagogy to this Encyclopedia. Professor Salisbury has written or edited more than ten books, including the award-winning Perpetua's Passion: Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman, The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages, Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World, and The West in the World, a successful Western Civilization textbook.GREGORY S. ALDRETE is Associate Professor of History and Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His publications include Gestures and Communications in Ancient Rome (1999), as well as book chapters on Ancient Rome's food supply and on daily life in Pompeii. Currently he is writing a book on floods in Ancient Rome.LAWRENCE MORRIS recieved his Ph.D from Harvard University in 2001, and has taught English literature and history at a variety of institutions including Harvard, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, and Fitzwilliam College (Cambridge University). He has recieved a number of academic awards and fellowships, including a Packard Fellowship and a Frank Knox Memorial Traveling Fellowship. Morris is currently writing about the relationship between truth and literary fiction in the religious writing of the medieval British Isles.PETER SEELIG is an independent scholar with a Bachelor's Degree in the humanities from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, and continues to study topics in history, language, and philosophy. Following a year spent teaching in France, he has been working as a university-level logic tutor and proofreader in Madison, Wisconsin. He is also a freelance editor and an author of educational supplements.ANDREW E. KERSTEN received his B.A. in History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his M.A. and Ph.D at University of Cincinnati. Since 1997 he has taught in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. Kersten has published in the Queen City Heritage, The Michigan Historical Review, and The Missouri Historical Review, has contributed to several anthologies and encyclopedias, and is author of Race, Jobs and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest, 1941-1946 and the co-editor of Politics and Progress: The State and American Society since 1865 (Greenwood, 2001). Currently he is writing a history of the American Federation of Labor during World War II.

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Book by Joyce E Salisbury Lawrence Morris Peter Seelig And

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• Editore: Greenwood Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0313325413
• ISBN 13: 9780313325410
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 2500
• Redattore: Salisbury Joyce E.