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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 world’s 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. This edition provides an updated map program as well as the latest scholarship. It also moves Primary Source Investigator online, improving access for students to work with primary sources.
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Twin themes of traditions and encounters. Traditions refer to the distinctive political, social, economic, and cultural traditions formed and developed by individual societies. Encounters refer to the interactions that have occurred regularly between the world's peoples'through mass migration, imperial expansion, trade, and cultural exchange. By addressing these encounters between peoples of different societies, this book will draw attention to processes of cross-cultural interaction that have been some of the most effective agents of change in all of world history.
An innovative historical architecture. Seven coherent ages are defined, not by any single cultural perspective, but by categories of cross-cultural experience and interaction. These seven ages are reflected in the structure of the book, which is organized into seven Parts.
Part Openers and Timelines. An introduction precedes each of the seven epochs of global history that divide the text into Parts. Each Part is also preceded by a regional timeline that outlines important events by both region and date. These invaluable lead-ins offer a coherent overview of each section's basic events, ideas and themes, preparing students for what's ahead.
Part Openers and Timelines. An introduction precedes each of the seven epochs of global history that divide the text into Parts. Each Part is also preceded by a regional timeline that outlines important events by both region and date. These invaluable lead-ins offer a coherent overview of each section's basic events, ideas and themes, preparing students for what's ahead.
Marginal Keynotes. For quick reference and to make it easier to find key information in the text, brief notes, names, and phrases appear throughout the margins of every chapter. These marginal keynotes are also a great review tool and helpful when studying for tests.
Primary Source Boxes. Each chapter contains extended excerpts from primary source documents. Relevant to the topics under discussion in that section of the text and offering students additional portals through which to view the material, these compelling sources range from anthropological and cultural, to anecdotal, philosophical, and religious.
End of Chapter Chronology. At the end of each chapter is a concise chronological table that outlines the material in the section and provides a useful summary.
References for Further Reading. Following the chronology, each chapter ends with an extensive list of carefully selected books for further reading and research. This annotated list is an excellent source for finding additional teaching materials or giving students a direction for research papers.
Pronunciation Guide. At the end of the book is an extensive pronunciation guide to key terms which may be unfamiliar to introductory students.
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.
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