Overview

Growing directly out of the experiences of a team of historians at Washington State University who designed a new foundational course for WSU's common requirements, the Roots of Contemporary Issues series is built on the premise that students will be better at facing current and future challenges, no matter their major or career path, if they are capable of addressing controversial and pressing issues in mature, reasoned ways using evidence, critical thinking, and clear written and oral communication skills. To help students achieve these goals, each title in the Roots of Contemporary Issues series argues that we need both a historical understanding and an appreciation of the ways in which humans have been interconnected with places around the world for decades and even centuries. Much of the world's politics revolve around questions about gender and imperialism, including the relationship between gender and empire over the last five hundred years. There are no easy answers to these questions, but the decisions that all of us make about them will have tremendous consequences for individuals and for the planet in the future. Gender Rules introduces students to history from the point of view of controversial and pressing issues they already know about and many of whom already feel invested in. Each chapter includes both Western and non-Western content, allowing readers to understand the deep past as connected to the present, and to see that the West has interacted with non-Western regions for centuries.

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"""Some of us love history for its own sake, but for most students the contents of a college history course seem detached, unrelated to their lives, even meaningless. Yet we are surrounded by the legacy of history. Everything around us - policy, population, culture, economy, environment - is a product of the actions and activities of people in the past. How can we hope to address the challenges we face and resolve contentious issues - inequality, health, immigration, climate change - without understanding where they come from? The volumes in the Roots of Contemporary Issues series are the tested products of years of classroom teaching and research. They address controversial issues with impartiality but not detachment, combining historical context and human agency to create accounts that are meaningful and usable for any student confronting the complex world in which they will live."" - Trevor R. Getz, San Francisco State University ""This is a truly innovative series that promises to revolutionize how world history is taught, freeing students and faculty alike from the ""tyranny of coverage"" often embedded within civilizational paradigms, and facilitating sustained reflection on the roots of the most pressing issues in our contemporary world. Students' understanding of the importance of history and their interest in our discipline is sure to be heightened by these volumes that deeply contextualize and historicize current global problems."" - Nicola Foote, Vice Dean of Barrett, The Honors College and Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at Arizona State University ""Gender Rules targets two major topics in world history--imperialism and gender--and brings them together as related issues. To accomplish this it selects five case studies on which students and teachers can focus instead of trying to understand the relationship and details of empire and gender over the course of five hundred years. The volume is thus teachable, usable, and engaging."" - Bonnie G. Smith, Rutgers University"

Gender Rules targets two major topics in world history * imperialism and gender * This is a truly innovative series that promises to revolutionize how world history is taught, freeing students and faculty alike from the tyranny of coverage often embedded within civilizational paradigms, and facilitating sustained reflection on the roots of the most pressing issues in our contemporary world. Students' understanding of the importance of history and their interest in our discipline is sure to be heightened by these volumes that deeply contextualize and historicize current global problems. - Nicola Foote, Vice Dean of Barrett, The Honors College and Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at Arizona State University Some of us love history for its own sake, but for most students the contents of a college history course seem detached, unrelated to their lives, even meaningless. Yet we are surrounded by the legacy of history. Everything around us - policy, population, culture, economy, environment - is a product of the actions and activities of people in the past. How can we hope to address the challenges we face and resolve contentious issues - inequality, health, immigration, climate change - without understanding where they come from? The volumes in the Roots of Contemporary Issues series are the tested products of years of classroom teaching and research. They address controversial issues with impartiality but not detachment, combining historical context and human agency to create accounts that are meaningful and usable for any student confronting the complex world in which they will live. - Trevor R. Getz, San Francisco State University

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Karen Phoenix is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Roots of Contemporary Issues Program at Washington State University.

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