Traditions & Encounters - From the Beginning to 1500

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 of traditions and encounters, 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 Encounters places the world of contemporary globalization in historical context. The book helps students understand the worlds 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.

List of contents

PART I. The Early Complex Societies, 3500 to 500 B.C.E. CHAPTER 1. Before History CHAPTER 2. Early Societies in Southwest Asia and the Indo-European Migrations CHAPTER 3. Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations CHAPTER 4. Early Societies in South Asia CHAPTER 5. Early Society in East Asia CHAPTER 6. Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania CHAPTER 7. The Empires of Persia CHAPTER 8. The Unification of China CHAPTER 9. State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India CHAPTER 10. Mediterranean Society: The Greek Phase PART II. The Formation of Classical Societies, 500 B.C.E. to 500 C.E. CHAPTER 11. Mediterranean Society: The Roman Phase CHAPTER 12. Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads PART III. The Postclassical Era, 500 to 1000 C.E. CHAPTER 13. The Expansive Realm of Islam CHAPTER 14. The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia CHAPTER 15. India and the Indian Ocean Basin CHAPTER 16. The Two Worlds of Christendom PART IV. The Acceleration of Cross-Cultural Interaction, 1000 to 1500 C.E. CHAPTER 17. Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration CHAPTER 18. States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa CHAPTER 19. The Increasing Influence of Europe CHAPTER 20. Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania CHAPTER 21. Reaching Out: Expanding Horizons of Cross-Cultural Interaction PART V. The Origins of Global Interdependence, 1500 to 1800 CHAPTER 22. Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections

About the author

Jerry H. Bentley is professor of history at the University of Hawai'i and editor of the Journal of World History. He has written extensively on the cultural history of early modern Europe and on cross-cultural interactions in world history. His research on the religious, moral, and political writings of the Renaissance led to the publication of Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance (1983) and Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples (1987). His more recent 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 (1993) studies processes of cultural exchange and religious conversion before modern times, and his pamphlet Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship (1996) discusses the historiography of world history. His current interests include processes of cross-cultural interaction and cultural exchange 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 Hawaii. For several years he also served as the book review editor of the Journal 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jerry Bentley, Jerry H Bentley, Jerry H. Bentley, Herbert F. Ziegler
• Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.10.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780077367947
• ISBN: 978-0-07-736794-7
• No. of pages: 608
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous