Jerry H. Bentley is professor of history at the University of Hawai`i and editor of the Journal of World History. His research on the religious, moral, and political writings of Renaissance humanists led to the publication of Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance (Princeton, 1983) and Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples (Princeton, 1987). More recently, his research has concentrated on global history and particularly on processes of cross-cultural interaction. His book Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York, 1993) examines processes of cultural exchange and religious conversion before the modern era, and his pamphlet Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship (Washington, D.C., 1996) discusses the historiography of world history. His current interests include processes of cross-cultural interaction and cultural exchanges in modern times.
Herbert F. Ziegler is an associate professor of history at the University of Hawai'i. He has taught courses on world history for the last 19 years and is currently the director of the world history program at the University of Hawai'i. For several years, he also served as the book review editor of the 'Journal of World History'. His interest in twentieth-century European social and political history led to the publication of 'Nazi Germany's New Aristocracy (1990)'. He is at present working on a study that explores uncharted aspects of German society, especially the cultural manifestations of humor and satire in the Nazi era. His other current research project focuses on the application of complexity theory to a comparative study of societies and their internal dynamics.
Heather Streets Salter is Associate Professor of History at Washington State University, where she teaches World History at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She received her Ph.D. in the History of the British Empire at Duke University in 1998. She is director of the WSU History department's World History Ph.D. program, and director of Washington State University's undergraduate World Civilizations program. She served as an area editor for the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, published in 2008 by Oxford University Press. Recent publications include Martial Races: The Military, Race, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914, published in 2004 by Manchester University Press. Her forthcoming book (co-authored with Trevor Getz), Imperialism in the Modern World, will be published by Pearson in 2010.
The Early Complex Societies, 3500 to 500 B.C.E. | |
The Foundations of Complex Societies | |
The Transition to Agriculture | |
The Quest for Order | |
The Formation of a Complex Society and Sophisticated Cultural Traditions | |
The Broader Influence of Mesopotamian Society | |
The Indo-European Migrations | |
Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations | |
Early Agricultural Society in Africa | |
The Formation of Complex Societies and Sophisticated Cultural Traditions | |
Bantu Migrations and Early Agricultural Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa | |
Early Societies in South and East Asia | |
Harapan Society | |
The Indo-European Migrations and Early Aryan India | |
Religion in the Vedic Age | |
Political Organization in Early China | |
Society and Family in Ancient China | |
Early Chinese Writing and Cultural Development | |
Ancient China and the Larger World | |
Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania | |
Early Societies of Mesoamerica | |
Early Societies of South America | |
Early Societies of Oceania | |
The Formation of Classical Societies, 500 B.C.E. to 500 C.E. | |
The Empires of Persia | |
The Rise and Fall of the Persian Empires | |
The Achaemenid Empire | |
Imperial Society and Economy | |
Religions of Salvation in Classical Persian Society | |
The Unification of China | |
In Search of Political and Social Order | |
The Unification of China | |
From Economic Prosperity to Social Disorder | |
State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India | |
The Fortunes of Empire in Classical India | |
Economic Development and Social Distinctions | |
Religions of Salvation in Classical India | |
Mediterranean Society under the Greeks and Romans | |
Early Development of Greek Society | |
Greece and the Larger World | |
The Fruits of Trade: Greek Economy and Society | |
The Cultural Life of Classical Greece | |
From Kingdom to Republic | |
From Republic to Empire | |
Economy and Society in the Roman Mediterranean | |
The Cosmopolitan Mediterranean | |
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads | |
Long-Distance Trade and the Silk Roads Network | |
Cultural and Biological Exchanges along the Silk Roads | |
China after the Han Dynasty | |
The Fall of the Roman Empire | |
The Post-Classical Era, 500 to 1000 C.E. | |
The Commonwealth of Byzantium | |
The Early Byzantine Empire | |
Byzantine Economy and Society | |
Classical Heritage and Orthodox Christianity | |
The Influence of Byzantium in Eastern Europe | |
The Expansive Realm of Islam | |
A Prophet and His World | |
The Expansion of Islam | |
Economy and Society of the Early Islamic World | |
Islamic Values and Cultural Exchanges | |
The Resurgence if Empire in East Asia | |
The Restoration of Centralized Imperial Rule in China | |
The Economic Development of Tang and Song China | |
Cultural Change in Tang and Song China | |
Chinese Influence in East Asia | |
India and the Indian Ocean Basin | |
Islamic and Hindu Kingdoms | |
Production and Trade in the Indian Ocean Basin | |
The Meeting of Hindu and Islamic Traditions | |
The Influence of Indian Society in Southeast Asia | |
An Age of Cross Cultural Interaction, 1000 to 1500 C.E. | |
Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration | |
Turkish Migrations and Imperial Expansion | |
The Mongol Empires | |
After the Mongols | |
States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa | |
Effects of Early African Migrations | |
African Society and Cultural Development | |
Islamic Kingdoms and Empires | |
Western Europe during the Middle Ages | |
The Quest for Order and the Establishment of Regional States | |
Economic Growth and Social Development | |
European Christianity during the High Middle Ages | |
The Medieval Expansion of Europe | |
World Apart: Beyond the Eastern Hemisphere | |
States and Empires in Mesoamerica and North America | |
States and Empires in South America | |
The Societies of Oceania | |
Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Interactions | |
Long-Distance Trade and Travel | |
Crisis and Recovery | |
Exploration and Colonization | |
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