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9780073406930

Traditions and Encounters : A Global Perspective on the Past

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    9780073406930

  • ISBN10:

    0073406937

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-10-11
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best selling book for the course,Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. Using the twin themes oftraditionsandencounters, the text emphasizes both the distinctive patterns of historical development within individual societies and the profound results of interactions between different societies. Exploring the historical record of cross-cultural interactions and exchanges,Traditions and Encountersplaces the world of contemporary globalization in historical context. The book helps students understand the world's major societies and shows how the interactions of these societies affect history throughout the world. The authors tell a coherent and digestible story of the past that is not weighed down by excessive detail, so instructors are able to incorporate additional readings. This edition provides an updated map program as well as the latest scholarship. It also moves Primary Source Investigator online, improving access for students to work with primary sources.

Author Biography

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. .

.Hebert 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. .

Table of Contents

The Early Complex Societies, 3500 to 500 B.C.E.
Before History
Early Societies in Southwest Asia
Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations
Early Societies in South Asia
Early Societies in East Asia
Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania
The Formation of Classical Societies, 500 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.
The Empires of Persia
The Unification of China
State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India
Mediterranean Society: The Greek Phase
Mediterranean Society: The Roman Phase
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads
The Postclassical Era, 500-1000 C.E.
The Commonwealth of Byzantium
The Expansive Realm of Islam
The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia
India and the Indian Ocean Basin
The Foundations of Christian Society in Western Europe
An Age of Cross-Cultural Interaction, 1000 to 1500 C.E.
Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration
States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
Western Europe During the High Middle Ages
Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Interactions
The Origins of Global Interdependence, 1500-1800
Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections
The Transformation of Europe
The New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania
Africa and the Atlantic World
Tradition and change in East Asia
An Age of Revolution, Industry, and Empire, 1750-1914
The Islamic Empires
Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
The Making of Industrial Society
The Americas in the Age of Independence
Societies at Crossroads
The Building of Global Empires
Contemporary Global Realignments, 1914 to the Present
The Great War: The World in Upheaval
An Age of Anxiety
Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
New Conflagrations: World War II
The Bipolar World
The End of Empire
A World Without Borders
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