Cross-cultural encounters in modern world history
By: Jonathan Davidann, Marc Jason Gilbert
Contributors: Gilbert, Marc Jason
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780205532667
Subjects: World history; Culture diffusion; Imperialism; Intercultural communication; History
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cross-cultural encounters and hybrid culture; title: Power and unpredictability, conquistadors, and native peoples : conquest of the Americas; title: Europeans on the margin : missionaries and indigenous response in East Asia; title: Empires of difference : the Ottoman model of a multicultural state; title: Cultures in competition : Native American encounters with Europeans; title: From first contact to entanglement : Polynesian encounters with Euro-Americans; title: On the frontiers of central Asia : Russia, China and Steppe empires in Eurasia; title: The raj undone : British imperialism and the rise of Indian nationalism; title: The Japanese in East Asia : a non-western empire and nationalist reactions; title: Mapping Africa : European perceptions and African realities; title: Testing the limits of multiculturalism : immigration into Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first century.