Synopses & Reviews
Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History, the highly-anticipated concise version of Bentley and Ziegler's best-selling survey text, provides a streamlined account of the cultures and interactions that have shaped world history. With an engaging narrative, strong thematic approach, visual appeal, and solid pedagogy, it offers enhanced flexibility and affordability without sacrificing the features that have made the complete text a favorite among instructors and students alike.
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Part V: THE ORIGINS OF GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE, 1500-1800
Chapter 20: TRANSOCEANIC ENCOUNTERS AND GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
THE EUROPEAN RECONNAISSANCE OF THE WORLDS OCEANS
TRADE AND CONFLICT IN EARLY MODERN ASIA
GLOBAL EXCHANGES
Chapter 21: THE TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE
THE FRAGMENTATION OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM
THE CONSOLIDATION OF SOVEREIGN STATES
EARLY CAPITALIST SOCIETY
SCIENCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT
Chapter 22: NEW WORLDS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
COLLIDING WORLDS
COLONIAL SOCIETY IN THE AMERICAS
EUROPEANS IN THE PACIFIC
Chapter 23: AFRICA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD
AFRICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN TIMES
THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Chapter 24: TRADITION AND CHANGE IN EAST ASIA
THE QUEST FOR POLITICAL STABILITY
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGES
THE CONFUCIAN TRADITION AND NEW CULTURAL INFLUENCES
THE UNIFICATION OF JAPAN
Chapter 25: THE ISLAMIC EMPIRES
FORMATION OF THE ISLAMIC EMPIRES
IMPERIAL ISLAMIC SOCIETY
THE EMPIRES IN TRANSITION
Part VI: An Age of Revolution, Industry and Empire, 1750-1914
Chapter 26: REVOLUTIONS AND NATIONAL STATES IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY AND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL
THE INFLUENCE OF REVOLUTION
THE CONSOLIDATION OF NATIONAL STATES IN EUROPE
Chapter 27: THE MAKING OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
PATTERNS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
GLOBAL EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
Chapter 28: THE AMERICAS IN THE AGE OF INDEPENDENCE
THE BUILDING OF AMERICAN STATES
AMERICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AMERICAN CULTURAL AND SOCIAL DIVERSITY
Chapter 29: THE BUILDING OF GLOBAL EMPIRES
FOUNDATIONS OF EMPIRE
EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM
THE EMERGENCE OF NEW IMPERIAL POWERS
LEGACIES OF IMPERIALISM
Part VII: Contemporary Global Realignments
Chapter 30: THE GREAT WAR: THE WORLD IN UPHEAVAL
THE DRIFT TOWARD WAR
GLOBAL WAR
THE END OF THE WAR
Chapter 31: AN AGE OF ANXIETY
PROBING CULTURAL FRONTIERS
GLOBAL DEPRESSION
CHALLENGES TO THE LIBERAL ORDER
Chapter 32: NATIONALISM AND POLITICAL IDENTITIES IN ASIA, AFRICA, AND LATIN AMERICA
ASIAN PATHS TO AUTONOMY
AFRICA UNDER COLONIAL DOMINATION
LATIN AMERICAN STRUGGLES WITH NEOCOLONIALISM
Chapter 33: NEW CONFLAGRATIONS: WORLD WAR II
ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II
TOTAL WAR: THE WORLD UNDER FIRE
LIFE DURING WARTIME
NEITHER PEACE NOR WAR
Chapter 34: THE BIPOLAR WORLD
THE FORMATION OF A BIPOLAR WORLD
CHALLENGES TO SUPERPOWER HEGEMONY
THE END OF THE COLD WAR
Chapter 35: THE END OF EMPIRE AND THE EMERGENCE OF A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS
INDEPENDENCE IN ASIA
DECOLONIZATION IN AFRICA
AFTER INDEPENDENCE: LONG-TERM STRUGGLES IN THE POSTCOLONIAL ERA
A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS