{"id":304,"date":"2015-10-23T15:36:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T20:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/?p=304"},"modified":"2015-11-03T09:12:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T15:12:38","slug":"torbjorn-wandel-how-chess-paved-the-way-for-globalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/2015\/10\/23\/torbjorn-wandel-how-chess-paved-the-way-for-globalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Torbj\u00f6rn Wandel, How Chess Paved The Way For Globalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2015\/11\/Chess.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2015\/10\/wandel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2015\/10\/wandel.jpg\" alt=\"wandel\" width=\"110\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>Presented By The Truman Faculty Forum<br \/>\n<strong>The World In A Game: How Chess Paved The Way For Globalization<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A Lecture by Torbj\u00f6rn Wandel, Professor Of History<\/strong><br \/>\nWednesday November 4, 2015, at 7:00 pm<br \/>\nIn Baldwin 176 (Little Theatre)<br \/>\nIn his world history of this ancient game, Torbj\u00f6rn Wandel does not just tell an engaging tale that takes us from ancient India and Persia through the Islamic world into al-Andaluz, medieval Europe, Renaissance Sicily, Spain, and beyond. Through his history of the game, he also reveals surprising paths and patterns of globalization that offer a fresh perspective on world history itself.<br \/>\nFor more information on the Truman Faculty Forum series go to <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.truman.edu\">forum.truman.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2015\/11\/Chess.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-309\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2015\/11\/Chess-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Chess\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2015\/11\/Chess-614x1024.jpg 614w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2015\/11\/Chess-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2015\/11\/Chess.jpg 1844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented By The Truman Faculty Forum The World In A Game: How Chess Paved The Way For Globalization A Lecture by Torbj\u00f6rn Wandel, Professor Of History Wednesday November 4, 2015, at 7:00 pm In Baldwin 176 (Little Theatre) In his world history of this ancient game, Torbj\u00f6rn Wandel does not just tell an engaging tale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}