This book examines cultural contact between people from across the globe between 1500 and the present using an encounters approach. Supported by discussion questions and enlivened with the voices and views of those directly engaged in the process of cross-cultural exchange, it remains a valuable resource for all students of world history.
This book examines cultural contact between people from across the globe between 1500 and the present using an encounters approach. Supported by discussion questions and enlivened with the voices and views of those directly engaged in the process of cross-cultural exchange, it remains a valuable resource for all students of world history.
Jon Thares Davidann, Ph.D., is professor of history at Hawai'i Pacific University. He has published many books, including The Limits of Westernization (2018). Davidann has given invited lectures internationally and he recently founded History Lens a history video podcast on ThinkTech Hawaii. Marc Jason Gilbert is the holder of an endowed Chair in World History at Hawai'i Pacific University. He is a past president of the World History Association, co-author of World Civilizations: The Global Experience, author of South Asia in World History, and editor of the e-journal, World History Connected.
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List of Figures List of Maps Preface to the Second Edition PART A Introduction: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Hybrid Culture PART B Encounters in the Age of Exploration Chapter 1 Power and Unpredictability, Conquistadors, and Native Peoples: Conquest of the Americas Chapter 2 Europeans on the Margin: Missionaries and Indigenous Response in East Asia Chapter 3 Empires of Difference: The Ottoman Model of a Multicultural States PART C Encounters-Middle Ground Successes and Failures Chapter 4 Cultures in Competition: Native American Encounters with Europeans Chapter 5 From First Contact to Entanglement: Polynesian Encounters with Euro-Americans Chapter 6 On the Frontiers of Central Asia: Russia, China and Steppe Empires in Eurasia PART D Imperialism and Nationalism in the Modern World Chapter 7 Altered States: British Imperialism and the Rise of Indian Nationalism Chapter 8 The Japanese in East Asia: A Non-Western Empire and Nationalist Reactions Chapter 9 Mapping Africa: European Perceptions and African Realities PART E Twentieth Century Challenges Chapter 10 Testing the Limits of Multiculturalism: Immigration into Europe in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Index
List of Figures List of Maps Preface to the Second Edition PART A Introduction: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Hybrid Culture PART B Encounters in the Age of Exploration Chapter 1 Power and Unpredictability, Conquistadors, and Native Peoples: Conquest of the Americas Chapter 2 Europeans on the Margin: Missionaries and Indigenous Response in East Asia Chapter 3 Empires of Difference: The Ottoman Model of a Multicultural States PART C Encounters-Middle Ground Successes and Failures Chapter 4 Cultures in Competition: Native American Encounters with Europeans Chapter 5 From First Contact to Entanglement: Polynesian Encounters with Euro-Americans Chapter 6 On the Frontiers of Central Asia: Russia, China and Steppe Empires in Eurasia PART D Imperialism and Nationalism in the Modern World Chapter 7 Altered States: British Imperialism and the Rise of Indian Nationalism Chapter 8 The Japanese in East Asia: A Non-Western Empire and Nationalist Reactions Chapter 9 Mapping Africa: European Perceptions and African Realities PART E Twentieth Century Challenges Chapter 10 Testing the Limits of Multiculturalism: Immigration into Europe in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Index
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