Traditions and Encounters

A Brief Global History
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-07-320702-5
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 200 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bentley, Jerry H.

Ziegler, Herbert F.

Streets, Heather

Streets Salter, Heather

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: THE EARLY COMPLEX SOCIETIES, 3500 TO 500 B.C.E.CHAPTER 1 THE FOUNDATIONS OF COMPLEX SOCIETIESTHE TRANSITION TO AGRICULTURETHE QUEST FOR ORDERTHE FORMATION OF A COMPLEX SOCIETY AND SOPHISTICATED CULTURAL TRADITIONSTHE BROADER INFLUENCE OF MESOPOTAMIAN SOCIETYTHE INDO-EUROPEAN MIGRATIONSCHAPTER 2: EARLY AFRICAN SOCIETIES AND THE BANTU MIGRATIONSEARLY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY IN AFRICAThe FORMATION OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES AND SOPHISTICATED CULTURAL TRADITIONS BANTU MIGRATIONS AND EARLY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA CHAPTER 3: EARLY SOCIETIES IN SOUTH AND EAST ASIAHARAPPAN SOCIETYTHE INDOEUROPEAN MIGRATIONS AND EARLY ARYAN INDIARELIGION IN THE VEDIC AGEPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN EARLY CHINASOCIETY AND FAMILY IN ANCIENT CHINAEARLY CHINESE WRITING AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTANCIENT CHINA AND THE LARGER WORLDCHAPTER 4: EARLY SOCIETIES IN THE AMERICAS AND OCEANIAEARLY SOCIETIES OF MESOAMERICAEARLY SOCIETIES OF SOUTH AMERICAEARLY SOCIETIES OF OCEANIAPART II: THE FORMATION OF CLASSICAL SOCIETIES, 500 B.C.E. TO 500 C.E.CHAPTER 5: THE EMPIRES OF PERSIA THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRESTHE ACHAEMENID EMPIREIMPERIAL SOCIETY AND ECONOMYRELIGIONS OF SALVATION IN CLASSICAL PERSIAN SOCIETYCHAPTER 6: THE UNIFICATION OF CHINAIN SEARCH OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ORDERTHE UNIFICATION OF CHINAFROM ECONOMIC PROSPERITY TO SOCIAL DISORDERCHAPTER 7: STATE, SOCIETY, AND THE QUEST FOR SALVATION IN INDIATHE FORTUNES OF EMPIRE IN CLASSICAL INDIAECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL DISTINCTIONS RELIGIONS OF SALVATION IN CLASSICAL INDIACHAPTER 8: MEDITERRANEAN SOCIETY UNDER THE GREEKS AND ROMANSEARLY DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK SOCIETY GREECE AND THE LARGER WORLDTHE FRUITS OF TRADE: GREEK ECONOMY AND SOCIETY THE CULTURAL LIFE OF CLASSICAL GREECE FROM KINGDOM TO REPUBLICFROM REPUBLIC TO EMPIREECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN THE ROMAN MEDITERRANEANTHE COSMOPOLITAN MEDITERRANEANCHAPTER 9: CROSS-CULTURAL EXCHANGES ON THE SILK ROADSLONG-DISTANCE TRADE AND THE SILK ROADS NETWORKCULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL EXCHANGES ALONG THE SILK ROADSCHINA AFTER THE HAN DYNASTYTHE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIREPART III: THE POST-CLASSICAL ERA, 500 TO 1000 C.E.Chapter 10: THE COMMONWEALTH OF BYZANTIUMTHE EARLY BYZANTINE EMPIREBYZANTINE ECONOMY AND SOCIETYCLASSICAL HERITAGE AND ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITYTHE INFLUENCE OF BYZANTIUM IN EASTERN EUROPEChapter 11: THE EXPANSIVE REALM OF ISLAMA PROPHET AND HIS WORLDTHE EXPANSION OF ISLAMECONOMY AND SOCIETY OF THE EARLY ISLAMIC WORLDISLAMIC VALUES AND CULTURAL EXCHANGESChapter 12: THE RESURGENCE OF EMPIRE IN EAST ASIATHE RESTORATION OF CENTRALIZED IMPERIAL RULE IN CHINATHE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF TANG AND SONG CHINACULTURAL CHANGE IN TANG AND SONG CHINACHINESE INFLUENCE IN EAST ASIAChapter 13: INDIA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN BASINISLAMIC AND HINDU KINGDOMSPRODUCTION AND TRADE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN BASINTHE MEETING OF HINDU AND ISLAMIC TRADITIONSTHE INFLUENCE OF INDIAN SOCIETY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAChapter 14: THE FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIAN SOCIETY IN WESTERN EUROPETHE QUEST FOR POLITICAL ORDEREARLY MEDIEVAL SOCIETYTHE FORMATION OF CHRISTIAN EUROPEPART IV: An Age of Cross Cultural Interaction, 1000 to 1500 C.E.Chapter 15: NOMADIC EMPIRES AND EURASIAN INTEGRATIONTURKISH MIGRATIONS AND IMPERIAL EXPANSIONTHE MONGOL EMPIRESAFTER THE MONGOLSChapter 16: STATES AND SOCIETIES OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAEFFECTS OF EARLY AFRICAN MIGRATIONSISLAMIC KINGDOMS AND EMPIRESAFRICAN SOCIETY AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTChapter 17: WESTERN EUROPE DURING THE HIGH MIDDLE AGESTHE ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL STATESECONOMIC GROWTH AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTEUROPEAN CHRISTIANITY DURING THE HIGH MIDDLE AGESTHE MEDIEVAL EXPANSION OF EUROPEChapter 18: WORLDS APART: BEYOND THE EASTERN HEMISPHERESTATES AND EMPIRES IN MESOAMERICA AND NORTH AMERICASTATES AND EMPIRES IN SOUTH AMERICATHE SOCIETIES OF OCEANIAChapter 19: REACHING OUT: CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTIONSLONG-DISTANCE TRADE AND TRAVELCRISIS AND RECOVERYEXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION

Über Autor(innen)

Streets Salter, Heather
Heather E. Streets-Salter is department chair and director of world history programs at Northeastern University. She is the author of Marital Races: The Military, Martial Races, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 (2004), Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective (2015) with Trevor Getz, and Southeast Asia and the Frist World War (forthcoming 2016). Her current research focuses on communist and anti-communist networks in interwar East and Southeast Asia.

Ziegler, Herbert F.
Herbert F. Ziegler is an associate professor of history at the University of Hawai'i. He has taught world history since 1980 and currently serves as director of the world history program at the University of Hawai'i. He also serves as book review editor of the Journal of 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 from a global point of view the demographic trends of the past ten thousand years, along with their concomitant technological, economic, and social developments. His other current research project focuses on the application of complexity theory to a comparative study of societies and their internal dynamics.

Bentley, Jerry H.
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.