Table of Contents

Jerry H. Bentley: Introduction: The Task of World History
Part I: Concepts
1: Michael Bentley: Theories of World History since the Enlightenment
2: Martin W. Lewis: Geographies
3: Luiji Cajani: Periodization
4: Matthew Lauzon: Modernity
5: Jürgen Osterhammel: Globalization
6: Patrick Manning: Epistemology
Part II: Themes
7: David Christian: World Environmental History
8: John A. Mears: Agriculture
9: Thomas J. Barfield: Nomadic Pastoralism
10: Charles Tilly: States, State Formation, and War
11: Marnie Hughes-Warrington: Genders
12: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite: Religions and World History
13: Daniel R. Headrick: Technology, Engineering, and Science
14: Kenneth Pomeranz: Advanced Agriculture
Part III: Processes
15: Dirk Hoerder: Migrations
16: James D. Tracy: Trade across Eurasia to about 1750
17: Patrick Karl O'Brien: Industrialization
18: J. R. McNeill: Biological Exchanges in World History
19: Jerry H. Bentley: Cultural Exchanges
20: Thomas T. Allsen: Premodern Empires
21: Prasenjit Duara: Modern Imperialism
Part IV: Regions
22: Peter C. Perdue: East Asia and Central Eurasia
23: André Wink: South Asia and Southeast Asia
24: John Obert Voll: The Middle East in World History
25: Christopher Ehret: Africa in World History: The Long, Long View
26: Bonnie Smith and Donald R. Kelley: Europe and Russia in World History
27: David Abulafia: The Mediterranean Basin
28: Edward J. Davies, II: The Americas, 1450-2000
29: Alan L. Karras: The Atlantic Ocean Basin
30: Paul d'Arcy: Ocenia and Australasia
31: Rainer F. Buschmann: The Pacific Ocean Basin to 1850

About the Author

Jerry H. Bentley is professor of history at the University of Hawai`i and editor of the Journal of World History. He has written extensively on the cultural history of early modern Europe and on cross-cultural interactions in world history, including Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance (1983), Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples (1987). His more recent research has concentrated on global history and
particularly on processes of cross-cultural interaction, resulting in Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (1993) and Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship (1996).

Reviews

an excellent addition to world history ... it should be celebrated as world history's coming of age.
*Jon Davidann, World History Connected*