Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History Volume 2
Jerry H. Bentley is professor of history at the University of Hawai`i and editor of theJournal of World History. His research on the religious, moral, and political writings of Renaissance humanists led to the publication ofHumanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance(Princeton, 1983) andPolitics 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 bookOld 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 pamphletShapes 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.Heather Streets Salter is Director of World History Programs at Northeastern University. She teaches at the graduate and undergraduate levels focusing on World History, the history of Imperialism, Gender History, and British History. She received her Ph.D. in the History of the British Empire at Duke University in 1998. She is director of the WSU History department's World History Ph.D. program, and director of Washington State University's undergraduate World Civilizations program. She served as an area editor for theOxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, published in 2008 by Oxford University Press. Recent publications includeMartial Races: The Military, Race, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914, published in 2004 by Manchester University Press. Her forthcoming book (co-authored with Trevor Getz),Imperialism in the Modern World, will be published by Pearson in 2010.Prior to Northeastern, Streets-Salter taught at Washington State University for 13 years, where she directed the graduate program in World History from 2003-2011. She also directed the undergraduate program in World Civilizations from 2009-2011.