Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past: 2025 Release ISE

Jerry H. Bentley was professor of history at the University of Hawai‘i 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. 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. 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. CRAIG BENJAMIN (PhD, Macquarie University) is an associate professor of history in the Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Like both his co-authors, Benjamin is a frequent presenter of lectures at conferences worldwide, and the author of numerous publications including books, chapters, and essays on ancient Central Asian history, big history, and world history. In addition, Benjamin has recorded lectures for the History Channel, The Teaching Company, and the Big History Project. He is currently a member of both the Advanced Placement and SAT World History Test Development Committees, vice president (president elect) of the World History Association, and has been treasurer of the International Big History Association since its inception in January 2011.

• 1 Early Human History2 The Emergence of Complex Societies in Southwest Asia and Encounters with Indo-European-Speaking Peoples3 The Emergence of Complex Societies in Africa and the Bantu Migrations4 The Emergence of Complex Societies in South Asia5 The Emergence of Complex Society in Mainland East Asia6 Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania7 The Empires of Persia8 The Unification of China9 State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in South Asia10 Civilizations of the Mediterranean Basin: The Greeks11 Civilizations of the Mediterranean Basin: The Romans12 Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads13 The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia14 The Expansive Realm of Islam15 India and the Indian Ocean Basin16 Eastern and Western Europe in the Early Medieval Period17 Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration18 States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa19 The Increasing Integration of Europe with the Wider World20 Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania21 Expanding Horizons of Cross-Cultural Interaction22 Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections23 The Transformation of Europe24 The Integration of the Americas and Oceania with the Wider World25 Africa and the Atlantic World6 Tradition and Change in East Asia27 Empires in South and Southwest Asia28 Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World29 The Making of Industrial Society30 The Americas in the Age of Independence31 Societies at Crossroads32 The Apex of Global Empire Building33 The Great War: The World in Upheaval34 Anxieties and Experiments in Postwar Europe and the United States35 Revolutionaries and Nationalists in the Colonial and Neocolonial World36 New Conflagrations: World War II and the Early Cold War37 From the End of Empire to the End of the Cold War38 Into the Twenty-First Century