Traditions and Encounters, 2/e

Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawai'i
Herbert F. Ziegler, University of Hawai'i

What's New

Changes to the Second Edition:

Chapter 2 now places Mesopotamia and other societies of southwest Asia in hemispheric context by emphasizing migrations, including the early Indo-European migrations, and cross-cultural exchanges that influenced the development of the ancient world.
Chapter 3 now places ancient Egypt in both African and Eurasian contexts by emphasizing the roles of environmental change and cross-cultural interactions that influenced the development of Egypt, sub-Saharan Africa, and the eastern Mediterranean.

The second edition draws on recent ground-breaking scholarship to bring clearer focus to the development of sub-Saharan Africa in pre-modern as well as modern times.

Increased emphasis on processes of cross-cultural interaction in pre-modern times

Highlights processes such as large-scale migrations and the diffusion of technological skills that profoundly influenced the development of societies in pre-modern as well as modern times.

Part 7, which focuses on global developments during the twentieth century, is significantly reorganized to highlight major historical topics

Completely revised chapter 38 now covers the entire cold war.
Equally revised chapter 39 highlights the process of decolonization and developments in the post-colonial world.
Chapter 40 has retained its focus on contemporary global developments, but benefits from the incorporation of new material on economic globalization, the AIDS crisis, and international terrorism.

Global Analysis of 20th century world helps students place recent events into historical context.
Glossary - now included with pronunciation guide (in features section).

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