Looseleaf for Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History

by Jerry Bentley, Heather Streets Salter, Herbert Ziegler

Overview

Based on Bentley and Ziegler's best-selling, comprehensive survey program, Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History provides a streamlined account of the cultures and interactions that have shaped world history. A focus on the human experience helps frame the broad scope of world history into a clear and concise learning experience for students.

Bentley’s engaging narrative is available as a digital SmartBook™, a personalized eBook that enhances understanding by asking students to demonstrate comprehension as they read. It is also supported by engaging digital tools, such as interactive maps, that encourage critical thinking and retention of key course concepts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781259712739
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/16/2015
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	752
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.11(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jerry H. Bentley was professor of history at the University of Hawaìi 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 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 interests included 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.

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 ITHE EARLY COMPLEX SOCIETIES, 3500 TO 500 B.C.E.  

1The Foundations of Complex Societies  
2Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations 
3Early Societies in South and East Asia 
4Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania
 

PART IITHE FORMATION OF CLASSICAL SOCIETIES, 500 B.C.E. TO 500 C.E.  

5The Empires of Persia  
6The Unification of China 
7State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India  
8Mediterranean Society under the Greeks and the Romans  
9Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads  

PART IIITHE POSTCLASSICAL ERA, 500 TO 1000 C.E. 

10The Christian Commonwealth of Byzantium  
11The Expansive Realm of Islam  
12The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia  
13India and the Indian Ocean Basin 
 

PART IVAN AGE OF CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTION, 1000 TO 1500 C.E.  

14Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration  
15States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa 
16Christian Western Europe during the Middle Ages 
17Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania  
18Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Interactions 
 

PART VTHE ORIGINS OF GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE, 1500–1800  

19Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections 
20The Transformation of Europe  
21New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania  
22Africa and the Atlantic World  
23Tradition and Change in East Asia  
24The Islamic Empires   

PART VIAN AGE OF REVOLUTION, INDUSTRY, AND EMPIRE, 1750–1914  

25Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World  
26The Making of Industrial Society  
27The Americas in the Age of Independence  
28The Building of Global Empires 
 

PART VIICONTEMPORARY GLOBAL REALIGNMENTS 

29The Great War: The World in Upheaval  
30An Age of Anxiety  
31Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America  
32New Conflagrations: World War II  
33The Cold War and Decolonization  
34A World without Borders