Traditions & Encounters, Volume A: From the Beginning to 1000 5th Edition
Author: Jerry Bentley ID: 0077367960
About the Author
Jerry H. Bentley is 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 has 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 current interests include processes of cross-cultural interaction and cultural exchanges in modern times.
Herbert F. Ziegler is an associate professor of history at the University of Hawai’i. He has taught courses on world history for the last 19 years and is currently the director of the world history program at the University of Hawai’i. For several years, he also served as the 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 uncharted aspects of German society, especially the cultural manifestations of humor and satire in the Nazi era. His other current research project focuses on the application of complexity theory to a comparative study of societies and their internal dynamics.
Paperback: 416 pagesPublisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 5 edition (October 8, 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0077367960ISBN-13: 978-0077367961 Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 0.5 x 10.8 inches Shipping Weight: 2 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #711,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1157 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > History > Ancient #4401 in Books > History > Ancient Civilizations #25856 in Books > History > World
Let’s simplify this into a pro/con format
Pros:
-Well assembled, full paged material with insightful photographs
-Matte texture to minimize light reflection
-Lay-flat design
-Decently priced and available for rent
Cons:
-The writing is absolutely bland and vanilla. Sure, we know that we all emigrated from the mid-eastern region over the course of 60k years. This book does nothing different to illustrate this point nor to provide any meaning to it. The maps are the same maps I’ve seen in my other classes and even resembles of some material found in high-school texts.
-This book needs footnotes for the amount of claims it makes. ‘The people of Austrailia used a rudimentry canoe system to navigate from what is now Ginuea to the main continent’
-The authors found it appropriate to provide shifty arguments as to why religion isn’t valid. Sure, that’s your viewpoint, but nowhere else in the text is this kind of counterpoint style exerted.
I never did get used to the way this book was put together. It seemed rather Hodge podge. It wasn’t in chronological order of the years, I would think that I was understanding a subject and then I realized I had been moved into a different century. It was frustrating.
The kindle version of this book is not really formatted for kindle. It doesn’t load on many of the kindle apps, and it doesn’t behave properly (turning pages, etc.) when it is available. should not be selling this as a kindle edition. I ended up getting the print version after all.
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