Places of Encounter, Volume 2

Aran MacKinnon is professor of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of An Introduction to Global Studies and The Making of South Africa: Culture and Politics.Elaine McClarnand MacKinnon is professor of history at the University of West Georgia. She is the editor and translator of Mass Uprisings in the USSR.

• CAPE TOWN: At the Cross-Currents of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds (1500-1800), SALVADOR DA BAHIA: A South-Atlantic Colonial Crossroads (1549-1822), NAGASAKI: Fusion Point for Commerce and Culture (1571-1945), LONDON: Emerging Global City of Empire (1660-1851), GOREE: At the Confluence of the Atlantic, Saharan, and Sahelian Worlds (1677-1890), PARIS: City of Absolutism and Enlightenment (1700s), CALCUTTA: A Central Exchange Point for Widely Separate Worlds (1700-1840), SHANGHAI: From Chinese Hub Port to Global Treaty Port (1730-1865), ALGIERS: A Colonial Metropolis Transformed to a Global City (ca. 1800-1954), GALLIPOLI: War's Global Concourse (1915), ST.PETERSBURG: The Russian Revolution and the Making of the Twentieth Century (1890-1918), KINSHASA: Confluence of Riches and Blight (1800s-1900s), BERLIN: A Global Symbol of the Iron Curtain (1945-1991), NEW YORK: Opportunity and Struggle in a Global City (1911-2011), DUBAI: Global Gateway in the Desert (1820-2010)

"This book presents world history accessibly and succinctly through key sites and cities, from Xi'an to Carthage to Potosi. It will work well together with the current textbooks that emphasize interaction and connections in world history. The authors draw students in to their subjects with accounts of their own personal engagement with their chosen site or city, an especially welcome feature." -J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University "Places of Encounter is an ideal text for an increasingly mobile college student body. Yet beyond giving students an appreciation for the diversity of places in human experience, the authors of Places of Encounter impress upon its readers the uniqueness of human experience across time and space. It is a valuable tool for stressing the singularity of human experience across the globe and throughout millennia." -Dr. Evan R. Ward, Brigham Young University