Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past - Brossura

Bentley, Jerry

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ISBN 10: 0071283307 ISBN 13: 9780071283304

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0071283307
• ISBN 13: 9780071283304
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 1248
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile