Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History - Softcover

Bentley, Jerry; Ziegler, Herbert; Streets Salter, Heather

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073534536 ISBN 13: 9780073534534

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2006

Synopsis

Traditions & 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 this title

About the Author:

Jerry H. Bentley was professor of history at the University of Hawaii 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0073534536
• ISBN 13: 9780073534534
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 752