Bentley Traditions and Encounters, AP Edition Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bentley, Jerry (Author), Ziegler, Herbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0076594386 ISBN-13: 9780076594382 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education OUR PRICE: $239.40 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | World - General |
Series: AP Traditions & Encounters (World History) |
Physical Information: 1.25" H x 8.5" W x 11" (1.40 lbs) 1032 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past is now available as an AP edition with NASTA spec binding Revisions in the text reflect changes to the AP course, and new AP supplements reflect changes in the AP exam. Traditions and Encounters has a rich history of firsts: the first world history text to take a truly global perspective on the past, the first to emphasize connections among cultures, and the first to combine twin themes with a seven-part framework - making the huge story of world history more manageable. New features in this edition include: Now, Traditions and Encounters becomes the first truly interactive world history program with Connect History, a new, web-based assignment and assessment platform offering: |
Contributor Bio(s): Bentley, Jerry: - Jerry H. Bentley was professor of history at the University of Hawai'i and editor of theJournal of World History. His research on the religious, moral, and political writings ofRenaissance humanists led to the publication of Humanists and Holy Writ: New TestamentScholarship in the Renaissance (Princeton, 1983) and Politics and Culture in RenaissanceNaples (Princeton, 1987). More recently, his research was concentrated on global historyand particularly on processes of cross-cultural interaction. His book Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York, 1993) examinesprocesses of cultural exchange and religious conversion before the modern era, and his pamphletShapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship (Washington, D.C., 1996)discusses the historiography of world history. His most recent publication is The OxfordHandbook of World History (Oxford, 2011), and he served as a member of the editorial teampreparing the forthcoming Cambridge History of the World. Jerry Bentley passed away inJuly 2012.Ziegler, Herbert: - 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. |