ABSTRACT
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History explores cultural contact as an agent of change. It takes an encounters approach to world history since 1500, rather than a political one, to reveal different perspectives and experiences as well as key patterns and transformations. It studies the spaces between cultures historically to help us transcend human differences today in a rapidly globalizing world.
The text focuses on first encounters that suggest long-term developments and particularly significant encounters that have changed the direction of world history. Because of the complexities of these encounters, the author takes a user-friendly approach to keep the text accessible to students with varying backgrounds in history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART B Encounters in the Age of Exploration
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PART C Encounters-Middle Ground Successes and Failures
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PART D Imperialism and Nationalism in the Modern
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PART E Twentieth Century Challenges