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New approaches in teaching history : using science fiction to introduce students to new vistas in historical thought / Frederic Krome.

By: Series: Teaching history today and in the futurePublisher: Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, [2024]Description: xii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781475869514
Other title:
  • Using science fiction to introduce students to new vistas in historical thought
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: New approaches in teaching historyDDC classification:
  • 23 907.1 K92 2024
LOC classification:
  • D16.255.A8 K76 2024
Contents:
Using Science Fiction Stories and Film in the History Classroom -- Nationalism, Racism, and Imperialism in the Science Fiction of Jules Verne -- Invaders from the Red Planet to We're the Martians Now : War of the Worlds in a Variety of Incarnations -- Things to Come : The Fall and Rise of Civilization in the Future War -- Science Fiction and the Holocaust -- Mutations and Monsters : Cold War Anxiety in the 1950s and 60s -- From Starship Troopers to the Forever War -- From Dune (1965) to The Ministry for the Future (2020) : Environmentalism in Science Fiction -- Confronting the Color Line : Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and Dissent -- A Brief How-To Guide.
Summary: "This book provides readers with a justification for using science fiction films and texts as a primary source for teaching history"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
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Books Books College Library General Circulation Section GC GC 907.1 K92 2024 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available HNU005615

Includes bibliographical references.

Using Science Fiction Stories and Film in the History Classroom -- Nationalism, Racism, and Imperialism in the Science Fiction of Jules Verne -- Invaders from the Red Planet to We're the Martians Now : War of the Worlds in a Variety of Incarnations -- Things to Come : The Fall and Rise of Civilization in the Future War -- Science Fiction and the Holocaust -- Mutations and Monsters : Cold War Anxiety in the 1950s and 60s -- From Starship Troopers to the Forever War -- From Dune (1965) to The Ministry for the Future (2020) : Environmentalism in Science Fiction -- Confronting the Color Line : Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and Dissent -- A Brief How-To Guide.

"This book provides readers with a justification for using science fiction films and texts as a primary source for teaching history"-- Provided by publisher.

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