Jerry Bentley

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Bentley, Traditions & Encounters (C)2011 1e, AP Practice Tests

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Bentley, Traditions & Encounters (C)2011 1e, AP Practice Tests

Autor

Jerry H. Bentley was 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 ofRenaissance humanists led to the publication of Humanists and Holy Writ: New TestamentScholarship in the Renaissance (Princeton, 1983) and Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples (Princeton, 1987). More recently, his research was concentrated on global historyand particularly on processes of cross-cultural interaction. His book Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York, 1993) examinesprocesses 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 most recent publication is The OxfordHandbook of World History (Oxford, 2011), and he served as a member of the editorial teampreparing the forthcoming Cambridge History of the World. Jerry Bentley passed away inJuly 2012.

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• AP Traditions & Encounters (Wo
• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Altersempfehlung: 14 bis 17 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780076594474
• ISBN-10: 0076594475
• Artikelnr.: 48811532