Traditions & Encounters, Volume A From The Beginning to 1000 by Jerry Bentley ebook

Traditions & Encounters, Volume A From The Beginning to 1000 by Jerry BentleyISBN: 9780077367961about the authorsJerry H. Bentley is professor of history at the University of Hawai`i and editor of theJournal of World History. He has written extensively on the cultural history of early modernEurope 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 Humanistsand Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance (1983) and Politics and Culturein Renaissance Naples (1987). His more recent research has concentrated on globalhistory and particularly on processes of cross-cultural interaction. His book Old WorldEncounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (1993) studiesprocesses of cultural exchange and religious conversion before modern times, and hispamphlet Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship (1996) discusses thehistoriography of world history. His current interests include processes of cross-culturalinteraction and cultural exchange in modern times.Herbert F. Ziegler is an associate professor of history at the University of Hawai`i. Hehas taught world history since 1980 and currently serves as director of the world historyprogram at the University of Hawai`i. He also serves as book review editor of the Journalof World History. His interest in twentieth-century European social and political historyled to the publication of Nazi Germany?s New Aristocracy (1990). He is at present workingon a study that explores from a global point of view the demographic trends of thepast ten thousand years, along with their concomitant technological, economic, and socialdevelopments. His other current research project focuses on the application of complexitytheory to a comparative study of societies and their internal dynamics.