bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Semantic Expansion in Arabic Language Textbooks for the Preparatory Stage
Authors: Dakhil Dr. Ali Abd
Published: April 2024

This research aims to identify “Semantic Expansion in Arabic Language Textbooks for the Preparatory Stage.” The researcher used a descriptive approach and content analysis method to achieve the research goal, as they are suitable for the purpose of the study. The research population and sample included exercises, drills, and activities from Arabic language textbooks for the preparatory stage.

After reviewing sources related to his research topic, the researcher prepared patterns for semantic expansion, which included 15 patterns distributed across four main types. The first type included patterns related to “semantic expansion through semantic relationships between words,” consisting of 5 patterns. The second type included patterns of “morphological semantic expansion,” with 4 patterns. The third type included patterns of “grammatical semantic expansion,” also with 5 patterns. The fourth type included a pattern of “symbolic semantic expansion,” which is a primary pattern only. To verify their validity, they were presented to judges and specialists in the Arabic language, teaching methods, and in measurement and evaluation, and received an approval rate of 89% from the judges’ opinions. Then, the researcher analyzed the Arabic language textbooks for the preparatory stage in light of these patterns and extracted the stability of the analysis using the time-agreement method and G. Cooper’s equation, achieving a reliability coefficient of 100% in all books.

The researcher relied on frequency as a unit of enumeration, using percentages and then a five-point scale to determine the weight of each pattern. The research results showed that all patterns of semantic expansion in Arabic language textbooks for the preparatory stage are not available (weak). The researcher concluded that the designers of the Arabic language curricula for the preparatory stage had neglected the semantic aspect and its expansion, which is the basis of communication among members of human societies and the foundation of advancement and prosperity; thus, it is the pulsating heart of linguistics. The ultimate goal of phonetic, morphological, and syntactic (grammatical) studies is to clarify meaning and remove ambiguity. This neglect is one of the main reasons for students’ weakness in reading comprehension and expressive performance. The researcher recommended the importance of including exercises, drills, and activities in Arabic language curricula that train students on how to expand semantically, so as not to limit their ability to express their ideas. It was suggested to build educational-training programs based on patterns of semantic expansion for teachers and students of the preparatory stage; as semantic expansion opens up horizons for students in choosing different words and linguistic structures to express their inner thoughts with ease and simplicity.
Metodología de la Investigación: del tema a la publicación de los datos
Authors: CENEDESI JUNIOR MARIO ANGELO , VOUILLAT SILVIA ELENA
Published: April 2024

El método científico se define como una serie de reglas básicas, que deben orientar la generación de conocimiento con el fin de la Ciencia, es decir, se utiliza un método científico para la investigación y verificación de un determinado tema. Poder diferenciar entre conocimientos teóricos y conocimientos prácticos, así como su distribución social entre “los que piensan” y “los que ejecutan”, lo que, a su vez, refleja un dudoso sistema educativo que diferencia la formación general de la formación profesional. Combatir la segmentación del conocimiento en todos los niveles educativos. Promover la democratización del conocimiento científico y tecnológico, difundiéndolo e integrándolo críticamente a la actividad productiva de las comunidades. El método científico requiere un trabajo sistemático, que busca promover respuestas a las preguntas investigadas, conduciendo a la formulación de una teoría científica. Así, corresponde al investigador, dependiendo del objeto y la naturaleza de la investigación, seleccionar el método de abordaje más adecuado para su investigación científica.
Чанишев Р. І. Інформаційні технології та Data mining в соціальних науках: навчально-методичний посібник для підготовки здобувачів вищої освіти галузі знань 05 «Соціальні та поведінкові науки» [Електронне видання]
Authors:   Національний університет «Одеська юридична академія», Чанишев Рашид Ібрагімович , Яценко Микола Анатолійович
Published: April 2024

Навчально-методичний посібник призначений для здобувачів вищої освіти галузі знань 05 «Соціальні та поведінкові науки» спеціальності 054 «Соціологія» з метою закріплення лекційного матеріалу та підготовки до практичних занять з дисципліни «Інформаційні технології та Data mining в соціальних науках». Містить методичні рекомендації, завдання до практичних занять та самостійної роботи.
Трофименко О. Г. Тестування та забезпечення якості програмних систем : навч. посіб. для підгот. здобув. вищої освіти галузі знань 12 «Інформаційні технології» [Електронне видання]
Authors:   Національний університет «Одеська юридична академія», Трофименко Олена Григорівна , Дика Анастасія Іванівна
Published: April 2024

В навчальному посібнику розглянуто особливості процесу тестування програмного забезпечення: фази та технології, тестову документацію, критерії та метрики тестів тощо. Вивчаються засоби програмної інженерії щодо оцінки якості у загальному процесі проєктування та конструювання ПЗ, методи верифікації та валідації програмного забезпечення. Навчальний посібник містить детальний теоретичний матеріал щодо аналізу вимог та показників якості програмного забезпечення, видів та підготовки і проведення тестування програмного продукту, який вивчають у рамках навчальної дисципліни «Тестування та забезпечення якості програмних систем».
Movimientos sociopolíticos y K-global citizenship: el caso de Kpopers por Boric en Chile
Authors:   Universidad Central de Chile, González Lustig Bernardita
Published: April 2024

El fandom de K-pop es un fenómeno global que se ha identificado como un grupo que muestra preocupación y empatía por valores universales. En América Latina, incluyendo Chile, la participación del fandom de K-pop en movimientos sociopolíticos ha ido en aumento. Este artículo busca determinar la influencia del fandom de K-pop en el fortalecimiento de la ciudadanía global. La investigación se enfoca en la influencia del fandom en los movimientos sociopolíticos, destacando el activismo y el fandom participativo en América Latina a través del caso de Kpopers por Boric en Chile. Este artículo tiene dos objetivos. Por una parte, busca determinar de qué forma influyó el fandom de K-pop en los fanáticos para que asumieran un rol sociopolítico activo, es decir, determinar si la pertenencia al fandom influyó en los fans, fortaleciendo así el concepto de ciudadanía global. El segundo objetivo es analizar cómo los fans asumieron ese rol activo en Chile. Utilizamos una metodología cualitativa, empleando como herramientas un cuestionario y entrevistas en profundidad semiestructuradas. Se concluye que, gracias a los movimientos de su activismo participativo, el fandom de K-pop fortalece la ciudadanía global como consecuencia de la incorporación de sus elementos (dignidad humana y el respeto por los derechos humanos), conformando una K-global citizenship.
¿Tiene la democracia todavía alguna posibilidad en Europa?
Authors: Brunkhorst Hauke
Published: April 2024

La teoría de la volonté générale sigue siendo la teoría normativa de la democracia. Ésta es efectiva como realidad normativa en el derecho constitucional moderno y, en la sociología política, se presenta como una teoría de la democracia deliberativa (I). Sin embargo, su primera realización parcial en el sistema parlamentario francés de 1848 fracasó debido a la persistencia y arbitrariedad tanto del sistema como del Estado capitalista (II). No fue hasta cien años después de la revolución de 1848 que comenzó la realización –primero social y luego también sexual y cultural– de la democracia parlamentaria (III). El compromiso de clase y el equilibrio sistémico de la contradicción institucionalizada entre capitalismo y democracia fracasaron por problemas de crecimiento inducidos técnicamente (“sociedad post-industrial”) y por los intereses hegemónicos de clase y autoconservación del Estado y la economía, a partir de lo cual los grandes logros feministas, político-sexuales y culturales del capitalismo democrático (IV) se re-convirtieron en privilegios de clase (V). Este desarrollo regresivo, desencadenado por los propios estados nacionales, no pudo ser detenido por la Unión Europea, por lo que la rápida expansión y ganancia de poder de la Unión actuó de manera contraproductiva, amplificando y no amortiguando las consecuencias negativas de la globalización (VI). El camino de salida de esta mezcla mortal de autoritarismo y economía de mercado autoregulada es la reanudación del programa del socialismo democrático (VII). Este programa nunca puede tener lugar en un solo país, sino que, como Marx observó correctamente, necesariamente en todos al mismo tiempo. Aquello supondría un primer paso, riesgoso pero inevitable, a saber: la parlamentarización amplia de la UE o la Eurozona (VIII).
"En casi todo el mundo el capitalismo existe sin democracia": Capitales flotantes, tiranías democráticamente electas y redistribución invertida en la perspectiva de Ágnes Heller
Authors: Heller Ágnes , Alvear Moreno Rafael
Published: April 2024

Con motivo de su visita a Berlín en septiembre de este año, tuvimos la oportunidad de encontrarnos con Ágnes Heller (1929), Profesora Emérito de la New School for Social Research, lugar donde fuese la sucesora de Hannah Arendt como Profesora Titular de la Cátedra de Filosofía. Hospedada en el centro de Berlín, a aproximadamente 500 metros de la famosa estatua de Karl Marx y Friedrich Engels, conversamos con la filósofa sobreviviente a los dos grandes totalitarismos del siglo XX –la Alemania Nazi y la Unión Soviética– sobre las particularidades de acceder a la teoría de Marx con base en la distinción capitalismo y democracia. La entrevista, realizada en alemán –idioma que Heller aprendió de niña en sus vacaciones anuales de verano en Austria hasta la conocida anexión de 1938–, intenta tematizar los riesgos tanto de la radicalización del capitalismo salvaje como de las críticas ingenuas a este último.
La rebelión social como imaginación sociológica colectiva
Authors: Córtes Alexis
Published: April 2024

Este artículo, escrito al calor de las movilizaciones iniciadas el 18 de octubre, afirma que las mismas pueden ser interpretadas como un ejercicio de “imaginación sociológica colectiva”, esto es: como una forma de articulación entre las biografías personales de los manifestantes y apoyadores, la historia reciente del país y la imputación de los padecimientos y abusos a la estructura social. El estallido habría estimulado diferentes procesos: un empoderamiento de los ciudadanos movilizados, una politización acelerada de la sociedad y la desnaturalización del orden social. Finalmente, se propone una reflexión sobre el papel de la sociología ante este escenario.
Editorial: Desempolvar la teoría social latinoamericana
Authors: Cordero Rodrigo , Salinas Francisco
Published: April 2024

Para el presente número invitamos a nuestros contribuidores a reseñar libros “viejos” de teoría social latinoamericana. La totalidad del presente número de los Cuadernos está dedicado a la discusión de libros y, en consecuencia, a resignificar la reseña como forma de escritura académica. Se trata de reseñar libros que fueron escritos hace décadas atrás por autores que plantearon sus textos como contribución a las ciencias sociales latinoamericanas, sea alertados por el desarrollo local de la disciplina sociológica, por las tensiones entre dependencia y desarrollo, por la inquietud por la especificidad cultural latinoamericana, o por el potencial de universalización que pueden tener experiencias y procesos surgidos en la región. Todos estos libros abordan problemas importantes y, en efecto, sus respectivos reseñadores han decido volver a ellos pues estiman que, pese a sus imperfecciones, sus páginas guardan aspectos que han sobrevivido al paso del tiempo y el peso del
La contribución de Cardoso y Faletto más allá de la "teoría" de la dependencia
Authors: Labarca José Tomás
Published: April 2024

En este escrito, propongo que recuperar y actualizar la tradición intelectual de la dependencia supone, primero, resolver el problema semántico respecto del significado de la palabra “teoría” en el trabajo de Cardoso y Faletto. Con ese objetivo, la siguiente sección examina el carácter polisémico de la palabra teoría. Luego, el texto discute cuál es la contribución teórica de Dependencia y Desarrollo en América Latina (DyD) en base al análisis de la primera edición de 1969 y del prefacio a la edición en inglés escrito 10 años después del texto original. La última sección, por su parte, reflexiona brevemente sobre la situación actual de la tradición dependentista con relación a la llamada “antropofagia intelectual” latinoamericana y el debate semántico en torno a la palabra “teoría”. Esta controversia semántica no solo cruza el debate en torno a las investigaciones sobre dependencia en general y a DyD en particular. Por ese motivo, el ejercicio que se presenta a continuación puede ser de interés más allá de los debates en torno a DyD.
Entre ensamblajes y asambleas: Formas de agenciamiento / Agenciamiento de las formas
Authors: CTS Colectivo Editorial
Published: April 2024

La propuesta de este número es presentar un paisaje conceptual, entre ensamblaje y asamblea, que indague en las interacciones que hacen posible las formas de asociación colectivas. Es por ello que optamos por componer el presente número solo con entrevistas en vez de artículos “originales”. Todas las entrevistas fueron realizadas por integrantes de este colectivo que como tarea conjunta se propuso estudiar estos conceptos en conversaciones con colegas fuera y dentro de Chile. Este ejercicio conversacional, muchas veces destinado a ser un apéndice en las revistas académicas, aquí cobra protagonismo y sentido performativo pues lo entendemos como una manera de abordar la dimensión co-laborativa y con-vivial del trabajo intelectual.
Reinventar lo social es la tarea: Una conversación con Teresa Matus
Authors: Matus Teresa , Salinas Francisco
Published: April 2024

Este documento registra una conversación sostenida entre Francisco Salinas y Teresa Matus (15 de julio de 2021) en torno al uso de conceptos teórico-sociales en las investigaciones que la profesora Matus ha realizado desde el Trabajo Social por más de dos décadas. La conversación se planteó como un espacio de exploración y pensamiento respecto a nociones ligadas a “ensamblajes” y “asambleas” en el contexto constituyente y refundacional del Chile presente. Este diálogo se movió a través de tres puntos de fuga: la intervención de los enunciados de lo social desde la universidad, la lógica de innovar desde la falla, y el lugar del conocimiento y la destrucción de la universidad.
Temporalidad, imaginación política y potencialidad de la memoria: Entrevista con Susana Draper
Authors: Draper Susana , Jara Daniela
Published: April 2024

Entre octubre y diciembre de 2021 invité a Susana Draper a una conversación por correspondencia en el formato actual, que son los correos electrónicos. Generosamente Susana aceptó participar en este diálogo a fragmentos, interrumpido, recompuesto, pero de todas formas un diálogo. Le envié algunas preguntas iniciales y comenzamos el intercambio que fue dando paso a esta entrevista. Pese al aceleramiento en que vivimos, Susana me respondió en medio de la corrección de exámenes, toleró mis silencios y discontinuidades y cada vez respondió con extraordinaria prontitud. Había conocido a Susana en 2019, cuando durante una estadía en Vassar College asistí a una conferencia que ella dio sobre México del 68, presentando su crítica a la elaboración historiográfica que se centra en la memoria traumática de los acontecimientos. Posteriormente, asistí a un seminario de América Latina, donde Katherine Hite discutió con sus estudiantes en torno a la idea de constelaciones y su rendimiento conceptual para estudiar momentos críticos en la historia reciente en el trabajo de Susana.
¿Hay algo fuera del texto? Reflexiones para la teoría política y social
Authors: Peredo Sebastián , Sandoval Cristóbal
Published: April 2024

En suma, en este número nos interesa reflexionar respecto a las críticas al tercer modelo identificado por Laclau y pensar en la posibilidad de la formación de un cuarto modelo en la teoría estructuralista, el cual, responda a nuevos desplazamientos o dislocaciones en las estructuras de significación. ¿De qué modo aportes teóricos como el giro afectivo y el giro performativo en las Ciencias Sociales o los llamados nuevos materialismos permiten identificar nuevos lugares de inscripción de las estructuras de significación?En específico, nos proponemos iniciar esta reflexión crítica problematizando la perspectiva derridiana respecto a lo que hay o habría fuera del texto. ¿De qué modo los aportes contemporáneos que se plantean a partir de la reflexión de Derrida tales como el giro afectivo, la teoría queer, la teoría del actor-red y el nuevo pragmatismo cuestionan o fortalecen la propuesta del autor? ¿Qué es lo que la deconstrucción ha hecho de la teoría social, política y las humanidades? ¿Qué es lo que no puede hacer o no puede ver? ¿Cuál es su punto ciego?
Justicia estética en derechos humanos: Fantomas y una utopía posible (una aproximación literaria)
Authors: Gómez-Punto Ricardo
Published: April 2024

¿Cuál es la imagen de la justicia que aparece al pensar en derechos humanos? Los tribunales Russell fueron juicios civiles que se promovieron por violaciones de derechos humanos cometidas por las tropas de los Estados Unidos en Vietnam y, posteriormente, por sometimientos de la población por gobiernos en Guatemala, Salvador, Brasil, Paraguay, Chile y Honduras, entre 1960 y 1990. De acuerdo con Julio Cortázar, los derechos humanos desde los Tribunales perdieron toda su razón política. Se convirtieron en mera retórica bien intencionada y para esto se valieron del lenguaje jurídico. La denuncia por la pérdida de la razón de ser de los derechos humanos, proviene desde la literatura, el comic y la obra de artistas latinoamericanos. En particular, la postura de Cortázar a través del héroe Fantomas, clama por una imagen de la justicia desde la acción política que debe ser ética. La obra de los artistas latinoamericanos, como será el caso de Carlos Motta y Oscar Murillo, junto a la acción en Fantomas, serán, conjuntamente, relevantes para alcanzar esta imagen de justicia. Esto es una postura por una imagen de la justicia-estética por fuera del lenguaje jurídico; dar una mirada que resulta muy pertinente para las transformaciones contemporáneas, que, para lo corrido del siglo XXI, posicionan a las sociedades latinoamericanas como referentes para los derechos humanos alrededor del mundo.
PECULIARITIES OF ANTI-CRISIS MANAGEMENT OF ENTERPRISES IN THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC INSTABILITY
Authors: Malovanyi H. , Korzun N.
Published: April 2024

The article focuses on identifying the peculiarities of anti-crisis management of construction industry enterprises as leading flagships of the country’s post-war reconstruction and its development in general. Considering the specifics of the analysed enterprise, namely, the peculiarities of its activity, the authors studied the financial indicators of its activity. A distinctive feature of the current period of development of the global and Ukrainian macroeconomy is the instability of the economic environment, and the crisis in the Western financial markets has intensified the development of the crisis in the Ukrainian economy. Under these conditions, many construction companies have found themselves in a crisis due to a decline in the effective demand of the population, customers, and investors. It necessitates adopting evidence-based policy decisions and further targeted actions to restore the lost potential and strengthen the basis for further sustainable development in the global market environment. However, necessary organisational and economic measures that form an enterprise crisis management system, allowing it to maintain a more stable financial position in a crisis, still need to be studied, which is the subject of further research. The set of tools for crisis management of a construction enterprise should include modern information technologies, crisis marketing technologies, analysis methods, and forecasting of the external environment. In crisis management, measures aimed at prompt prevention, response, and overcoming a crisis in modern economic conditions are carried out exclusively using modern information technologies. Based on the above, we can conclude that the main feature of crisis management of a construction company in a crisis is the increased complexity of the management process. It is necessary to make appropriate decisions simultaneously in all areas of the enterprise’s activity: financial stability, sales promotion, and work with clients, suppliers, and financial organisations. It is proved that the crisis is an indicator of the effectiveness of the enterprise and management decisions, which reveals weaknesses.
Keywords: enterprise, construction industry, monitoring, financial condition of the enterprise.
Caveat Neophytus
Authors: Rosenfeld Michael
Published: April 2024

Ten years ago I was hired to teach part-time at St. Francis College, a small Catholic college in Brooklyn, New York. I was a young graduate student at Columbia at the time and the job was my first. The first semester was a harrowing one; by the time I was through it, I was convinced my teaching career was over. The chairman was of little help; indeed, at the time he seemed to me an aloof and absolute despot. On one occasion, when he appeared quite suddenly to observe, I was frightened into silence. Still he must have seen something worthwhile for he continued to invite me back for several years, and colleagues, looking over his observation reports, tried to console me by pointing out that he never found fault with the content of my lectures. My fears were not allayed, however, and I kept thinking: "If only someone had told me what to expect."
I began that first summer not knowing whether I would ever teach again. But I was determined to write some day about what I had learned and share what I had picked up with some of my fellow graduate students. The result, from a decade ago, is the short essay on pedagogy that follows. I think it says things that a beginning teacher ought to hear.
The Use of Simulations as a Teaching Strategy for Civic Understanding and Participation
Authors: Menton Linda
Published: April 2024

Simulations are generally considered a highly effective pedagogical tool. They involve students in inquiry-based, problem-solving activities that integrate content and process. Furthermore, simulations are motivational and require argumentation and reflection.1 The purpose of this paper is to present a model simulation that can be used with college or high school students to prepare them to participate in civic discourse about reparations as an important public policy issue. Although this simulation focuses specifically on Native Hawaiians and the history of their relationship with the state and federal governments, an issue of important contemporary debate in Hawai'i and recently in Congress, it can be adapted to discuss the issue of reparations for other groups who have reason to believe they may be entitled to compensation from the government, whether at the federal, state, or local levels. This report, therefore, includes information on the concept of reparations and provides historical information explaining why Native Hawaiians might be entitled to them. It then outlines the simulation itself, including questions to be used for debriefing. It concludes with specific suggestions as to how the simulation can be adapted to be used with other groups who might be considered eligible for reparations.
Fox, Ed., The Unknown Internment - An Oral History of The Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II
Authors: Boland Brian
Published: April 2024

Most of us know about the cruel and heartbreaking internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Few know that some Italian-Americans were also sorted out for a similar fate. This well-written oral history explores what happened to these Italian-Americans, and it helps fill in our understanding of the xenophobia of the early war years.
Adams, Ed., Peacework - Oral Histories of Women Peace Activities
Authors: Hunter Carol
Published: April 2024

Somewhere between the few powerful, visible leaders and the indifferent or alienated masses are a group of people invested in their society, yet convinced it can be better. Their issues have varied, as have their tactics. Judith Porter Adams has interviewed 23 women who chose peace as their life issue, and membership in the International League for Peace and Freedom and/or the Women's Strike for Peace as their primary focus for activism. It is hard to estimate how much different contemporary society looks today because of their efforts, but it is imperative that we know their stories and their work.
The American History Videodisc - Schulz, Master Guide
Authors: Mugleston William
Published: April 2024

Technological supplements for classroom use are becoming increasingly common. The American History Videodisc (ARV) is one of the most recent and attractive. It consists of 2490 still images and 68 motion sequences, organized into ten sections chronologically. The stills cover the sweep of United States history from prehistory to 1992. The motion sequences begin in the Progressive and World War I eras and go to the Gulf War.
Cannadine, G.M Trevelyan - A Life In History
Authors: De C. Rosenfeld Michael
Published: April 2024

David Cannadine's G. M. Trevelyan: A Life in History is magisterial. As an essay in English historiography it is superb; as a study of English life and letters in the twentieth century it is masterly; and as a model for writing a scholarly life it is without peer. Written with elegance and wit, and an unmistakable patrician air worthy of its subject, Cannadine's biography has rescued Trevelyan and his work from the limbo of yesterday's scholarship. Neither nostalgic nor pietistic, Cannadine has made the life of this monumental British historian a key to understanding the development of historical writing in England between 1880 and 1960 as well as the profound transformation that took place in English life during those years.
Hudson, The Industrial Revolution
Authors: Lowrie Walter
Published: April 2024

It is commonplace to mark the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century as a momentous epoch in the north Atlantic world Profound demographic, intellectual, and political changes, accompanied by the onset of the Industrial Revolution, engendered the most fundamental socio-economic changes since the development of agriculture more than ten thousand years earlier. In a variety of ways the old order would persevere for decades, in some instances even two or three generations. But traditional society was henceforth on the defensive, fighting a losing battle to maintain accustomed ideological, political, and economic structures.
Golden and Kuehns, Eds., Western Societies - Primary Sources In Social History
Authors: Jirran Raymond
Published: April 2024

Richard M. Golden and Thomas Kuehn, two professors of Western civilization at Clemson University, offer an anthology of relatively short, complete readings, focused on the "have-nots" of society. In this, the anthology succeeds. The readings are keyed to twenty-one different texts.
How To Plan An Educational Visit To An Historic Site
Authors: Sutter David
Published: April 2024

Teaching history can be far more than dry lectures and reading Jong books. One challenge is to find creative and innovative ways to present the material. Another challenge is to avoid having a visit to an historical site degenerate into an elementary school field trip. The "historical staff ride" program in the United States Army can serve as an example of how to teach history outside of the classroom.
The "historical staff ride" is a method for teaching military history by visiting a battlefield and discussing the events that took place. The historic event is then used to teach current Army doctrine. The United States Army has had a leading role in developing this technique.1 Battlefield visits have obvious applications to the education of Army officers. Yet the techniques used in developing a staff ride can be applied to any historical topic. This article provides some ideas on how to develop your own visit to an historical site. For simplicity, this out of classroom event will be called a visitation in this article.
The Identity Crisis Revisited
Authors: Banner-Haley Charles
Published: April 2024

When our students come into our history courses they bring with them the messy puzzles regarding who they are, what they want to be, and confusion over how to answer those questions. History courses indirectly become a means by which they find some solace, if not clues, as to who and what they are. For Afro-American students, black history courses can easily become sought after places in which to resolve identity crises. For white students, African American history courses can either be exercises in feeling guilty or studying blacks as some foreign people. Only when all students are shown that Afro-Americans make up an integral part of American history and that they can learn about themselves as much as about black people over time can the real business of teaching Afro-American history take place. Which is to say that African American history is not just mainly about Identity as much as it is about the courageous efforts of black women and men to free themselves from the mental and physical shackles of slavery and the removal of racism. The identity component of African American history is not just unique to black people, but given the nature of the Afro-American experience, it illuminates what should be the core of all American history: the question of what is an American.1
Sowards Ed. Makers Of World History
Authors: Davis Gerald
Published: April 2024

Among Western Civ teachers, J. Kelley Sowards has been known for a long time as a provider of useful biographical supplements for basic textbooks. Now, as many of us adapt to the demands of World Civ, we have his Makers of World History to perform the same service. In both the Western and World courses, Sowards seems to assign a large role to "great men" and "great women" in the generation of historical forces. This runs against strong trends in basic textbook publishing and other elements of the historical profession that favor "non-elitist social history" and guide readers' attention toward dynamic processes, groups, and categories.
Burke III, Ed., Struggle And Survival In The Modern Middle East; Smith Palestine And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Authors: Allen Calvin
Published: April 2024

Both of these books deal with the theme of struggle in Middle Eastern society. The volume edited by Edmund Burke, a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, presents 24 short biographies, by 27 authors, of individuals struggling to survive the wide variety of economic, social, and political conditions of the modern Middle East. Charles Smith, a history professor at San Diego State University, focuses on the struggles between and among the Jewish and Arab populations of Palestine since ancient time.
Phillipson And Skinner, Eds., Political Discourse In Early Modern Briain; Fideler And Mayer, Eds., Political Thought And The Tudor Commonwealth - Deep Structure, Discourse And Disguise
Authors: Romer K. Gird
Published: April 2024

New works dedicated to discussing and interpreting English political philosophy are always welcome. These two well-done collections concerned with political thought during the Tudor and Stuart periods do exactly that. Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth contains eight essays on such diverse topics as the use of myth and history to enhance royal power and the growing importance of peace in Tudor political thought. Political Discourse in Early Modem Britain contains sixteen essays that are dedicated to and discuss the work of the noted historian J. G. A. Pocock. His response is in essay seventeen.
Ralph, Northern Protest - Martin Luther King, Jr. Chicago, And The Civil Rights Movement
Authors: Wilcoxson Elizabeth
Published: April 2024

The story of the civil rights movement has been frequently told, both in print and in visual form. However, most treatments of the topic have allocated little space to the open-housing protests in Chicago in 1966. Northern Protest very adequately fills this void.
Athletics, Society, And History
Authors: Simons William
Published: April 2024

Over the past generation, the dictum that Clio is more than past politics has given rise to a new social history that concerns itself with the lives of ordinary people. The new social history has prompted research and the creation of courses examining family, gender, race, ethnicity, work, and even recreation. Nevertheless, many academics remain skeptical about the legitimacy of courses in sport history.
Since 1982 I have taught "Athletics, Society, and History," an undergraduate American history course, at the State University of New York at Oneonta. By providing an intellectual rationale and practical "how-to" information, based on my own experience, I hope to encourage others to develop courses in sport history. To gain support from departmental colleagues and administrators, many of whom may initially regard athletic studies as facile, a proposal for a course in American sport history needs to provide considerable information about goals, content, and resources.
Recasting World War II
Authors: Kneeshaw Stephen
Published: April 2024

As we observe the fiftieth anniversary of the close of World War Il, historians and popular authors are churning out countless books about the war and the men and women whose lives were shaped and sometimes changed unalterably by this "greater war" of the twentieth century.1 These studies run from biographies and psychological inquiries to diplomatic and military histories of key moments in the war to full-scale studies of the conflict in Europe and the Pacific. They surely will change the way we think about the world of the 1930s and 1940s and the way we teach World War II.
Sowards, Ed., Makers Of The Western Tradition - Portraits From History
Authors: Luehrs Robert
Published: April 2024

Social history ("history from below," "the history of daily life," or, as George M. Trevelyan described it better than half a century ago, "the history of a people with the politics left out") is scarcely a new field Its antecedents may be discerned in the works of the Father of History, Herodotus, who enlivened his story of the struggle between East and West with wonderful if not always accurate accounts of the eccentric habits and curious mores of the various ethnic groups who populated the Persian Empire. Even so, social history along with such affiliates as women's history and ethnic studies now seems to be entering a veritable golden age.
Bayer, A Dog's Life. Welch, The Third Reich: Politics And Propaganda
Authors: Gutman Sanford
Published: April 2024

In its own way each of these books seeks to help us understand how and why ordinary Germans supported Hitler and the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. David Welch's book on the propaganda of the Third Reich offers us important insights into these questions. Unfortunately, Hans Bayer does not.
Harsch, German Social Democracy And The Rise Of Nazism
Authors: Brown Robert
Published: April 2024

In the 1928 Reichstag elections, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) won 29.8% of the vote and Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party (NSDAP) just 2.6%. But the German economic and political situation rapidly deteriorated, and in three elections between 1930 and 1932, the SPD's shared dropped to 20.7%, while that of the NSDAP rose to 37.8%, before slipping to 33.6% in November 1932. Similarly, in 1928, the SPD was the "largest, best organized. and most disciplined political party" in Germany with 937,000 members, and it was the hub of the "multispoked movement" called Social Democracy, which enrolled millions more in the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (ADGB), the Reichsbanner, and various cultural and cooperative organizations.
Madaras & Sorelle, Eds., Taking Sides - Clashing Views On Controversial Issues In American History
Authors: De Graaf Lawrence
Published: April 2024

Taking Sides is an issues reader designed for survey courses in United States History. This fifth edition presents thirty-three topical questions, with the customary division at Reconstruction, which is repeated in both volumes. Two readings drawn from secondary articles or books are presented in each chapter. Each issue begins with an Introduction which places the topic in an historical perspective by providing a brief background of events and ends with a Postscript which summarizes the arguments presented and offers a bibliographic essay of books that support each position.
The Debate Of The National Standards An Assessment By Three Historians
Authors: Mugleston William
Published: April 2024

Historians know all too well that hand-wringing over what we shall teach our children is about as old as the nation itself. As Walter Licht has noted, "Faced with recurring diagnoses, suggesting cures, and confused debate, historians can only greet the latest best-selling jeremiad [on public education] with both skepticism and bemusement." (Licht, Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950 [1992]) Thus the brouhaha over the recently published National History Standards for American and world history in primary and secondary school may be seen as yet another tum in the cycle. As in all such debates, there is the generous serving of bombast, posturing, fear, arrogance, and plain ignorance. One hopes that there has also been a glimmering of enlightenment, understanding. and respect as well, in short, a bit of light amidst the heat.
The Ties That Bind
Authors: Lorence James
Published: April 2024

The University of Wisconsin Center-Marathon County in Wausau is a two-year transfer institution that is a fully-integrated unit in the University of Wisconsin System. Center students may complete the first two years of the baccalaureate program and suooessfu1ly transfer their freshman-sophomore course work to any four-year institution in the state. Most of the thirteen two-year centers in this system are located in the outlying areas of the state, which means their student bodies are often homogeneous in composition. though in part non-traditional. As an~ access institution, the university center must often serve the needs of students whose basic skills are either poorly-developed or rusty after years outside the academic life. Simultaneously, UW Center faculties must also challenge some of the brightest students produced by the secondary schools of outstate Wisconsin. Because of their close ties with their host communities, Wisconsin's two-year institutions are uniquely situated to function as community resources in every sense of the word.
Noll, Bebbington, & Rawlek, Eds., Evangelicalism - Comparative Studies Of Popular Protestantism In North America, The British Isles, And Beyond, 1700-1990
Authors: Glass William
Published: April 2024

This collection of essays belongs in every academic library but unfortunately has limited application for the classroom. In the excellent introduction, the editors define evangelicalism as a variation of Protestantism that places religious authority in the Bible, emphasizes conversion as the central religious experience, pursues an aggressive but individualistic approach to missions and social action, and stresses the Crucifixion as the key event in the Bible. Evangelicalism's historic roots were in the revivals of the eighteenth century, particularly the American Great Awakening and the development of Methodism in the British Isles.
Gallay, Ed., Voices Of The Old South - Eyewitness Accounts, 1528-1861
Authors: Vaughn William
Published: April 2024

Voices of the Old South, ably edited by Alan Gallay of Western Washington University, ought to be a boon to all historians teaching upper-division and graduate-level courses in the history of the antebellum American South. As the dust jacket commentary observes, ''Unlike many works in the Old South, which tend to focus on the immediate pre-war years, this volume gives equal attention to the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Its geographic definition of the region is notably broad …. "
Kochendoerfer, One Women's World War II
Authors: Wyatt Lee
Published: April 2024

Kochendoerfer's work is an intriguing account of her wartime experiences and observations between 1943 and 1947, first as a member of the Women's Anny Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and then as key staff officer in the American Red Cross (ARC). After joining the ARC, Kochendoerfer became snared in the swirl of events from the preparation for D-Day in England to following the advance of allied forces eastward on the continent and finally witnessing the ultimate defeat and occupation of Germany. Furthermore, as the mission of the Red Cross expanded during the war from one of merely medical support to that of providing recreational services, Kochendoerfer obtained a position as an ARC director working closely with military officials to ensure soldiers had top-notch club facilities and outlets for morale and welfare activities.
Route 66
Authors: Ryburn-LaMonte Terri
Published: April 2024

In 1926 construction began on an American institution-Route 66. Upon completion, the highway "reached across more than 2,400 miles, three time zones, and eight states"1 from Chicago to Santa Monica. In time, Route 66 became a symbol of America's heritage of travel and of our desire to make a better life for ourselves by moving west. The road was especially important to rural areas. Many small, sleepy towns came to life as the road snaked its way through them. Restaurants, gas stations, truck stops, and other businesses sprang up along the road to accommodate the business travelers and vacationers who traveled Route 66. As American grew, with the resulting demand for faster and safer roads, the original two-lane road was replaced by a four-lane highway that closely paralleled the first. This new road generally skirted towns, so some businesses moved closer to the road; others counted on the "Business Route 66" signs to funnel traffic off the new four-lane and into their places of business. Eventually, this four-lane highway was replaced by an even more efficient, and impersonal, pavement: the Interstate. Some towns survived this change better than others.
Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make - Leadership From John Adams To George Bush
Authors: Odom E. Dale
Published: April 2024

Skowronek. a Yale political science professor, has conceived a new framework for examining the leadership of United States presidents in the past. He contends that there have been four different modes of governmental operations in which presidents have had to work. ( l) The Patrician mode of 1789-1832 was one in which the characteristic presidential resource was his personal reputation among notables and I I his typical strategy was to stand as national tribune above faction and interest. (2) In the Partisan mode from 1832 to 1900, party organization and executive patronage constituted the characteristic presidential resource, and the typical strategy was to act as a broker for the national coalition by distributing patronage to party factions and local machines. (3) The Pluralist mode from 1900 to 1972 was a period when the characteristic presidential resource was the expanding executive establishment needed to attend to newly nationalized interests and America's rise to world power; the typical strategy was to bargain with leaders of all institutions and organized interests as the main steward of national policy making. ( 4) In the Plebiscitary mode, from 1972 to the present, Skowronek maintains that the main resource the president had was his independent political apparatus and mass communication technologies, while the typical strategy was to appeal for political support over the heads of Washington elites directly to the people at large.
Greene, The Presidency Of Gerald R. Ford
Authors: Neal Donn
Published: April 2024

Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter seem fated to be linked together, both in the popular mind and in historical interpretation. Most Americans would probably describe them as decent men who tried their best in difficult times, with modest if any success and few if any lasting accomplishments. In fact, most people might have difficulty differentiating between the two presidents. Oh, the occasional person would mention Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, and surely Carter's role in brokering a framework for peace in the Middle East would not go entirely unnoticed.
Streitmatter, Raising Her Voice - African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History; Wolfe, Daughters Of Canaan - A Saga Of Southern Women
Authors: Banner-Haley Charles
Published: April 2024

The continuing growth and success of Women's history has seen the field move into two areas that heretofore have been seriously neglected: that of African American women and black and white women of the South. Given that African American history on the one hand and the history of women on the other has pretty much succeeded in changing the ways in which we teach, interpret, and write about American history, it seems more than overdue that specific studies of southern women, in general, and African American women, in particular, be undertaken in these scholarly areas.
Chatfield & Ilukhina, Eds., Peace/Mir - An Anthology Of Historic Alternatives To War; Freedman, War
Authors: Romer K. Gird
Published: April 2024

Does the phrase ''war and peace" insinuate that war is usually followed by peace then, perhaps, war again? The first of these two books suggests in its title that peace can be an alternative to war, while the second book suggests that war is a human condition that is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. Considering the current state of the world … , but one can always hope.
Lerner, Hagai, And Rothman, Molding The Good Citizen - The Politics Of High School History Texts; Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me - Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Authors: Livingston Jeffery
Published: April 2024

The teaching of American history is a strategic battleground in the culture wars that now rage in the United States. Critics, who often are political conservatives, charge that the history curriculum is deeply flawed. They claim that history has degenerated into a therapeutic multiculturalism more concerned with upholding political correctness than with cultivating national pride and a sense of common heritage. The targets of this attack tend to be liberals and leftists who only now are beginning to respond. They accuse the Right of wanting to return to a nationalistic history that ignores blemishes in the American past and that leaves out women and people of color.
Field, Inside The Arab World
Authors: Dunn Joe
Published: April 2024

Michael Field, long-time economic correspondent in the Middle East, offers another volume to an interesting body of literature that attempts to explain the failures of the contemporary Arab world. Among the more prominent works in this area are David Pryce-Jones's The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs (1989), Halim Barakat's The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State (1993), Milton Viorst's Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern World (1994), Paul Salem's Bitter Legacy: Ideology and Politics in the Arab World (1994), and Nazith N. Ayubui's Over-Stating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East (1995). Field's readable, insightful book, based on his many years in the region and on extensive interviews, is a balanced, useful addition.