Traditions & Encounters Volume 2 from 1500 to the Present / Edition 6

by Jerry Bentley, Heather Streets Salter, Herbert Ziegler

Overview

Traditions & Encounters offers an inclusive vision of the global past—one that is meaningful and appropriate for the interdependent world of contemporary times. Given the diversity of human societies, gathering and organizing the sheer mass of information in a meaningful way is a daunting challenge for any world history survey course. The seven-part chronological organization enables students to understand the development of the world through time, while also exploring broader, big-picture thematic issues in world history. Through new and revised chapter-level and part-level features, the hallmark twin themes of traditions and encounters emerge in greater clarity than ever before in this sixth edition. As a result, students have resources that enable them to move beyond the facts of history and examine the past critically, analyze causes and effects, and recognize similarities and differences across world regions and time periods. By digging deeper into the implications of world history’s stories—not just the who, the what, and the where, but also the why and the how—students can make sense of the human past.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780077504915
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	10/10/2014
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jerry H. Bentley was 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 was 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 most recent publication is The Oxford

Handbook of World History (Oxford, 2011), and he served as a member of the editorial team

preparing the forthcoming Cambridge History of the World. Jerry Bentley passed away in

July 2012.

Heather E. Streets-Salter is department chair and director of world history programs at Northeastern University. She is the author of Marital Races: The Military, Martial Races, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 (2004), Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective (2015) with Trevor Getz, and Southeast Asia and the Frist World War (forthcoming 2016). Her current research focuses on communist and anti-communist networks in interwar East and Southeast Asia.

Herbert F. Ziegler is an associate professor of history at the University of Hawai'i. He has taught world history since 1980 and currently serves as director of the world history program at the University of Hawai'i. He also serves as 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 from a global point of view the demographic trends of the past ten thousand years, along with their concomitant technological, economic, and social developments. 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

Part 5, The Origins of Global Interdependence, 1500 to 1800
22 Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections
23 The Transformation of Europe
24 New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania
25 Africa and the Atlantic World
26 Tradition and Change in East Asia
27 The Islamic Empires
Part 6, An Age of Revolution, Industry, and Empire, 1750 to 1914
28 Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
29 The Making of Industrial Society
30 The Americas in the Age of Independence
31 Societies at Crossroads
32 The Building of Global Empires
Part 7, Contemporary Global Realignments, 1914 to the Present
33 The Great War: The World in Upheaval
34 An Age of Anxiety
35 Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
36 New Confl agrations: World War II and the Cold War
37 The End of Empire
38 A World without Borders