World History Bulletin Fall 2006 Vol. XXII No. 2 H. Micheal Tarver Editor
[email protected] In This Issue Editor’s Note Inside Front Cover Letter from the President 1 Minutes of the June 2006 World History Association Executive Council Meeting 2 WHB Focus Issue & Teaching Forum, Guest Editor - Richard Weiner, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IN) 6 Cooking a Cuban Ajiaco: The Columbian Exchange in a Stewpot 8 by Gregory T. Cushman, University of Kansas (KS) Consider Panama 13 by Rick Warner, Wabash College (IN) Indigenous Peoples, the Chaco War, and State Formation in a World History Context 14 by René Harder Horst, Appalachian State University (NC) Caral and the Re-Envisioning of the Ancient Americas in World History 18 by Ben Leeming, The Rivers School (MA) Mini-Essays on Latin America 22 Chinchorro Mummies by Christine Boston The Panama Canal by Philippe R. Girard Terra Incognita: Latin America in World History 27 by Suzanne B. Pasztor, Humboldt State University (CA) The Caribbean as Crossroads of World History 30 by Gary Van Valen, University of West Georgia (GA) Reflections on the Importance of Teaching the Spanish Borderlands in the U. S. History Class 34 An Editorial by H. Micheal Tarver 2006 WHA Teaching Prize Lesson Plan - Bound by a Silver Chain: 1571 37 by Maggie Favretti, Scarsdale High School (NY) Book Reviews, Book Review Coordinator - Peter Dykema, Arkansas Tech University (AR) 43 Silver, Markets, and States: The Impact of Islamic Trade on Eastern Europe in the Ninth through Eleventh Centuries 47 by Dariusz Adamczyk, Universität Hannover (GER) Call For Papers - Sixteenth Annual Conference of the World History Association (Milwaukee, WI) 49 WHA at the AHA: 2007 51 November 2006 Greetings.