Encounters Old and New in World History : : Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley / / ed. by Anand A. Yang, Laura J. Mitchell, Kieko Matteson, Alan Karras.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Benton, Lauren,; Getz, Trevor R.,; Goucher, Candice,; Jun Yoo, Theodore,; Karras, Alan,; Lewis, Martin W.,; Marks, Robert B.,; Mitchell, Laura J.,; Phillips, Carla Rahn,; Phillips, Jr.,; Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Benton, Lauren.; Burke III, Edmund.; Getz, Trevor R.; Goucher, Candice.; Karras, Alan.; Lewis, Martin W.; Marks, Robert B.; Mitchell, Laura J.; Philiips, William D.; Phillips, Carla Rahn.; Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.; Yoo, Theodore Jun.
• HerausgeberIn: Karras, Alan,; Matteson, Kieko,; Mitchell, Laura J.,; Yang, Anand A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on the Global Past
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 3 b&w illustrations, 4 maps

This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with thei...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• INTRODUCTION Writing World Histories for Our Times
• PART I :Publics and Practices
• ONE. World Historians and the Future of Academic History A Research Manifesto
• TWO .Making Porous and Expansive Boundaries Jerry Bentley, World History, and Global Publics
• THREE. Teaching World History in a Swirl of Standards
• PART II: Identities and Encounters
• FOUR .Encounters within Europe Travelers' Views of Slavery in Renaissance Iberia
• FIVE. The Sixteenth-Century World War and the Roots of the Modern World A View from the Edge
• SIX. Who Owns the Fish in the Sea? The Dukes of Medina Sidonia and Spain's Tuna Fisheries
• SEVEN .Eating the World The Iguana's Tale of Caribbean Ecology and Culinary History
• EIGHT .Shaken or Stirred? Recreating Makgeolli for the Twenty-First Century
• PART III: Truth Claims and Enlightenment Shadows
• NINE. Explanations of Species Extinction in Nineteenth-Century China and Europe
• TEN. Shadows of Sovereignty Legal Encounters and the Politics of Protection in the Atlantic World
• ELEVEN .The Promise of-and the Threats to-Historical Linguistics as a Complement of Bentleyan World History
• TWELVE. Close Encounters of the Methodological Kind Contending with Enlightenment Legacies in World History
• Contributors
• Index