Traditions & Encounters A Global History 2nd by Bentley, Jerry
By: Bentley, Jerry;Ziegler, Herbert;Streets Salter, Heather;
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Print ISBN: 9780077407612, 007740761X
eText ISBN: 0077422694
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
World history is about people. But it is easy to lose people in the telling of history.
Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History is not merely a recounting of the facts
of history. Rather, we wanted to tell the story of people in history, the traditions they
embraced and the encounters with other cultures that brought about inevitable change.
It is the interaction of these traditions and encounters that provides the key to making
sense of our past. Human communities furthered themselves not by remaining isolated, but
by interacting with others and exploring the benefi ts and risks of reaching out.
Th e vitality of history?and its interpretation?lies in understanding
the nature of individual traditions and the scope of encounters
that punctuated every signifi cant event in human history.
