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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsTraditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History, Volume Iby Jerry H Bentley
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Based on Bentley and Ziegler's best-selling, comprehensive survey text, Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History provides a streamlined account of the cultures and interactions that have shaped world history. An effective part structure organizes developments into seven eras of global history, putting events into perspective and creating a framework for cross-cultural comparisons, while the strong themes of traditions (the formations and development of the world's major societies) and encounters (cross-cultural interactions and exchanges) bring focus to the human experience and help turn the giant story of world history into something more manageable. With an engaging narrative, visual appeal, extended pedagogy, and a strong emphasis on critical thinking, this concise version offers enhanced flexibility and affordability without sacrificing the features that have made the complete text a favorite among instructors and students alike.
About the AuthorJerry 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. Table of ContentsPart I: The Early Complex Societies, 3500 to 500 B.C.E. The Transition to Agriculture The Formation of a Complex Society and Sophisticated Cultural Traditions The Indo-European Migrations Early Agricultural Society in Africa Bantu Migrations and Early Agricultural Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa Harapan Society Religion in the Vedic Age Society and Family in Ancient China Ancient China and the Larger World Early Societies of Mesoamerica Early Societies of Oceania Chapter 5: The Empires of Persia The Achaemenid Empire Religions of Salvation in Classical Persian Society In Search of Political and Social Order From Economic Prosperity to Social Disorder The Fortunes of Empire in Classical India Religions of Salvation in Classical India Early Development of Greek Society The Fruits of Trade: Greek Economy and Society From Kingdom to Republic Economy and Society in the Roman Mediterranean Chapter 9: Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads Cultural and Biological Exchanges along the Silk Roads The Fall of the Roman Empire Chapter 10: The Commonwealth of Byzantium Byzantine Economy and Society The Influence of Byzantium in Eastern Europe A Prophet and His World Economy and Society of the Early Islamic World Chapter 12: The Resurgence if Empire in East Asia The Economic Development of Tang and Song China Chinese Influence in East Asia Islamic and Hindu Kingdoms The Meeting of Hindu and Islamic Traditions Part IV: An Age of Cross Cultural Interaction, 1000 to 1500 C.E. Turkish Migrations and Imperial Expansion After the Mongols Effects of Early African Migrations Islamic Kingdoms and Empires The Quest for Order and the Establishment of Regional States European Christianity during the High Middle Ages Chapter 17: World Apart: Beyond the Eastern Hemisphere States and Empires in South America Chapter 18: Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Interactions Crisis and Recovery |
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