Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History Volume 2: A Brief Global History: 1500 to the Present - Softcover

Bentley, Jerry; Ziegler, Herbert; Streets Salter Director Of World History Programs, Heather

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1259277283 ISBN 13: 9781259277283

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2015

Synopsis

Known for its balanced voice and approachable scholarship, Alan Brinkley's best-selling The Unfinished Nation offers a concise, yet thorough survey of American History appropriate for students at all levels. The 8th edition features new scholarship and updated discussions, most significantly on the topics of War, American Imperialism, and Globalization. Brinkley's accessible narrative is available as a digital SmartBook[trademark],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.

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
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1259277283
• ISBN 13: 9781259277283
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 384