Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History

by Davidann, Jon Thares; Gilbert, Marc Jason

• ISBN13: 9780205532667
• ISBN10: 0205532667
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Takes an encounters approach to studying the modern world. Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History explores cultural contact as an agent of change. It takes an encounters approach to world history since 1500, rather than a political one, to reveal different perspectives and experiences as well as key patterns and transformations. The text focuses on first encounters that suggest long-term developments. Because of the complexities of these encounters, the author takes a user-friendly approach to keep the text accessible to students with varying backgrounds in history. Learning Goals Upon completing this book readers will be able to: Understand the dynamics of cultural contact and exchange as agents of historical change View cultural encounters as more than a political struggle between dominant and subordinate people See the impact of first encounters and longer-term, macro-historical encounters Note:MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit:www.mysearchlab.comor you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MySearchLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205248403 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205248407.

Author Biography

Dr. Jon Davidann is a professor of History at Hawai’i Pacific University and a graduate of the University of Minnesota.  He teaches courses in U.S., Japanese, and World History including the History of Oil.  Dr. Davidann’s research specialty is U.S.-Japanese relations and world history.  He is the author several books on U.S.-Japanese relations and world history.  He lives in Kailua, Hawai’i with his wife Beth and son Elijah.

 

Marc Jason Gilbert is the holder of an NEH-supported Chair in World History at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a former University System of Georgia Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning. He received his Ph.D in history in 1978 at UCLA, where he built his own program in world history out of a mixture of more traditional fields. He is a founding member of the World History Association and one of its initial elected officers.More than a decade ago, he founded and served as executive director of the Southeastern World History Association. He has codirected two Summer Institutes for Teaching Advanced Placement World History. He has attempted to bring a global dimension to the study of south and southeast Asian history in numerous articles and books, such as Why the North Won the Vietnam War.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. iv
Introduction: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Hybrid Culture	p. 1
Encounters in the Age of Exploration	p. 11
Power and Unpredictability, Conquistadors, and Native Peoples: Conquest of the Americas	p. 12
"Indios"	p. 13
European and Native American Perceptions	p. 13
Columbus and the Route to Asia	p. 16
Columbus and the Taino	p. 18
Cortés, Aztecs, and Conquest of Mexico	p. 24
The Aztecs	p. 25
Native American Responses	p. 29
Fighting for the Native Americans: Las Casas	p. 30
Europeans on the Margin: Missionaries and Indigenous Response in East Asia	p. 34
Cultural Conversion in China: Matteo Ricci	p. 37
Chinese-Jesuit Dialogue	p. 41
Japan and the Jesuits	p. 44
Empires of Difference: The Ottoman Model of a Multicultural State	p. 53
Outsiders in the Ottoman Empire	p. 55
The Aman	p. 55
The Millet System	p. 56
Trade and Commerce	p. 56
Imperial Power, Imperial Diversity	p. 58
Obstacles to Toleration	p. 59
Trade	p. 60
Prisoners and Slaves	p. 61
Pilgrims and Missionaries	p. 61
Cosmopolitan Ports of Call: Salonica and Algiers	p. 62
The Ottoman Encounter with "Orientalism"	p. 66
Encounters-Middle Ground Successes and Failures	p. 69
Cultures in Competition: Native American Encounters with Europeans	p. 70
European and Native American Perceptions	p. 72
New England Native Americans and Land	p. 73
Impact of the Fur Trade	p. 77
The Middle Ground	p. 78
The Catawba	p. 81
Native Americans and the U.S. Government	p. 83
From First Contact to Entanglement: Polynesian Encounters with Euro-Americans	p. 87
Polynesia at the Time of Its Contact with the West	p. 89
The West at the Time of the First Contact with Polynesia	p. 92
Castaways	p. 99
On the Frontiers of Central Asia: Russia, China and Steppe Empires in Eurasia	p. 107
The Mongols	p. 109
The Russian Empire and the Peoples of the Steppe	p. 110
Raiding and Slaves	p. 113
Diplomacy and Conquest	p. 114
Missionary Activity	p. 119
China, Russia, and Mongolia	p. 120
Imperialism and Nationalism in the Modern World	p. 125
Altered States: British Imperialism and the Rise of Indian Nationalism	p. 126
Britain Discovers India	p. 126
The Orientalists	p. 129
The Bengal Renaissance	p. 132
Remaking a Civilization	p. 133
The War of 1857 and Its Aftermath	p. 137
Oil and Water	p. 140
The Japanese in East Asia: A Non-Western Empire and Nationalist Reactions	p. 146
Acquiring an Empire	p. 147
Japanese Policy in Taiwan	p. 150
Japanese Encounter with Indigenous Peoples	p. 152
Japan in Korea	p. 154
Japan in Manchuria and China	p. 158
Far Eastern Games	p. 160
The Sino-Japanese War and the Rape of Nanjing	p. 161
Mapping Africa: European Perceptions and African Realities	p. 165
Impact of the Colonial Encounter	p. 168
European Perceptions	p. 171
Christianity in Africa	p. 173
African Perceptions	p. 173
Christianity and Conquest	p. 176
Islam in Africa	p. 177
Rise of Nationalism and Decolonization	p. 180
Twentieth Century Challenges	p. 185
Testing the Limits of Multiculturalism: Immigration into Europe in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century	p. 186
Conflicts	p. 189
Law and Sex	p. 191
Extremes: Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism	p. 194
Non-Muslim Immigrant Experiences	p. 196
Index	p. 200
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