Traditions & Encounters, Volume 2, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb

Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best selling book for the course, Traditions and Encounters. The text is unique in approach: it covers the world as a whole, examining the formations and development of the world’s major societies (“traditions”), and exploring cross-cultural interactions and exchanges that have been some of the most effective agents of change in history (“encounters”). In addition, the authors tell a coherent story of the past that is not weighed down by too much detail, enabling instructors to incorporate additional readings. The third edition is accompanied by the Primary Source Investigator CD, offering an easy and affordable way for instructors to get students working with primary sources.

Table of Contents:
Part V: The Origins of Global Interdependence, 1500-180023. Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections24. The Transformation of Europe25. The New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania26. Africa and the Atlantic World27. Tradition and change in East AsiaPart VI: An Age of Revolution, Industry, and Empire, 1750-191428. The Islamic Empires29. Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World30. The Making of Industrial Society31. The Americas in the Age of Independence32. Societies at Crossroads33. The Building of Global EmpiresPart VII: Contemporary Global Realignments, 1914 to the Present34. The Great War: The World in Upheaval35. An Age of Anxiety36. Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America37. New Conflagrations: World War II38. The Bipolar World39. The End of Empire40: A World Without Borders

About the Author :
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. 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.