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Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor introduces students to the suppleness and power of Confucian thought by recreating the historical context that applied to issues of governance during the Ming Dynasty.

Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of elaborate games in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.   The game unfolds amidst the secrecy and intrigue within the walls of the Forbidden City, as scholars struggle to apply Confucian precepts to a dynasty in peril.

• This inexpensive text can be used on its own or as a supplementary text.
• Important historical readings, such as “The Canon of Yao,” “The Shao Announcement,” as well as excerpts from Discourses on Salt and Iron, and other contemporary sources, fuel student debates.
• “Reacting” improves speaking, writing and leadership skills, promotes engagement with classic texts and history, and builds learning communities.
• Students “run” each game, which includes multiple roles for classes.
• “Reacting” can be used for a wide variety of curricular and institutional purposes—as the foundation for a first-year general education, an upper-class “capstone” experience, the discussion component of a large lecture class, or be enlisted for intersession courses, honors programs, and other specialized curricular purposes.

History of China  [REACTING TO THE PAST SERIES]   (Western and World History)
World History: Volume 1 (to 1500)  [REACTING TO THE PAST SERIES]   (Western and World History)
World History: Volume 2 (after 1500)  [REACTING TO THE PAST SERIES]   (Western and World History)

Pedagogy Manual
CARNES & BARNARD UNIV
©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 96 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321333586 | ISBN-13: 9780321333582
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Reacting Guide / Instructor's Manual
Carnes
©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 144 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 032133356X | ISBN-13: 9780321333568
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This title is a member of the The Reacting to the Past Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the Reacting to the Past Series page.

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  Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism 1862-1864
  Driscoll, Dunn, Siems & Swanson
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 176 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205723179 | ISBN-13: 9780205723171
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  Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1862–1864, thrusts students into the intellectual ferment of Victorian England just after publication of The Origin of Species.

   

  Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of a game in which students experience firsthand the tension between natural and teleological views of the world--manifested especially in reconsideration of the design argument commonly known through William Paley’s Natural Theology or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity (1802).

   

  Note: Reacting to the Past has been developed under the auspices of Barnard College.  It won the Theodore Hesburgh Award (2004), funded by the TIAA-CREF, for pedagogical innovation, and it has also received substantial support from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) of the U.S. Department of Education.  With this support, Barnard College hosts a series of conferences throughout the nation at which interested faculty and administrators learn about “Reacting” by playing miniversions of the games.

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  Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor: Reacting to the Past
  Carnes & Gardner
  ©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 80 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032133230X | ISBN-13: 9780321332301
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  Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor introduces students to the suppleness and power of Confucian thought by recreating the historical context that applied to issues of governance during the Ming Dynasty.

   

  Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of elaborate games in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.   The game unfolds amidst the secrecy and intrigue within the walls of the Forbidden City, as scholars struggle to apply Confucian precepts to a dynasty in peril.

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  Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence 1945: Reacting to the Past
  Embree & Carnes
  ©2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321355857 | ISBN-13: 9780321355850
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  In the struggle to reconcile religious identity with nation building, Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 recreates one of the most intractable and important issues of the modern world.

   

  Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of a game in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in a particular moment of intellectual and social ferment.  The game is set at Simla, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the British viceroy has invited leaders of various religious and political constituencies to work out the future of Britain’s largest colony.

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  Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament: Reacting to the Past
  Coby & Carnes
  ©2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321418786 | ISBN-13: 9780321418784
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  Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament transforms students into lords and commoners and members of the English parliament during the tumultuous years 1529-1536.  The game illustrates the clash between four contending ideas: medieval Catholicism, Lutheranism, Renaissance humanism, and Machiavellian statecraft.

  Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of an elaborate game in which students are assigned roles that are informed by classic texts and set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.  The game unfolds just as Cardinal Wolsey is dismissed as lord chancellor for failing to obtain the divorce King Henry VIII is seeking from Catherine of Aragon, and Thomas More is named as Wolsey’s replacement.

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  Pedagogy Manual
  CARNES & BARNARD UNIV
  ©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 96 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321333586 | ISBN-13: 9780321333582
  

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  Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791: Reacting to the Past
  Carnes & Kates
  ©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321332296 | ISBN-13: 9780321332295
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  Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791 plunges students into the intellectual political and ideological currents that surged through revolutionary Paris in the summer of 1791.

   

  Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of elaborate games in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.   Students are leaders of major factions within the National Assembly (and in the streets outside) as it struggles to create a constitution amidst internal chaos and threats of foreign invasion.

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  Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C.: Reacting to the Past
  Carnes & Ober
  ©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 128 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321333039 | ISBN-13: 9780321333032
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  Innovative and engaging, The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C. explores the intellectual dynamics of democracy by recreating the historical context that shaped its evolution.

   

  Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of elaborate games in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.   Issues of the time are sorted out by a polity fractured into radical and moderate democrats, oligarchs, and Socratics, among others.

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  Trial of Anne Hutchinson, The: Liberty, Law, and Intolerance in Puritan New England: Reacting to the Past
  Carnes & Winship
  ©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 128 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321332288 | ISBN-13: 9780321332288
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  By recreating one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in early American history, The Trial of Anne Hutchinson: Liberty, Law, and Intolerance in Puritan New England illustrates the struggle between the followers and allies of John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and those of Anne Hutchinson, a strong-willed and brilliant religious dissenter.

   

  Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of elaborate games in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.   The game unfolds amidst a controversy that pushed Massachusetts to the brink of collapse and spurred a larger historical process that led to religious freedom and the modern concept of separation of church and state.

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  Trial of Galileo, The: Aristotelianism, the " New Cosmology" and the Catholic Church, 1616-1633
  Purnell, Carnes, Pettersen & Barnard University
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 224 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321341325 | ISBN-13: 9780321341327
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  The Trial of Galileo: Aristotelianism, the "New Cosmology," and the Catholic Church, 1616-1633shows the confrontation between Copernicanism, as brilliantly propounded by Galileo, and the elegant cosmology of Aristotle, as defended energetically by conservatives within the Inquisition.

   

  Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of a game in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in a particular moment of intellectual and social ferment.  The issues range from the nature of faith and the meaning of the Bible to the scientific principles and methods as advanced by Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo.  The game includes several optional science labs in optics and astronomy.

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