Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History

Takes an encounters approach to studying the modern world.

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History explores cultural contact as an agent of change. It takes an encounters approach to world history since 1500, rather than a political one, to reveal different perspectives and experiences as well as key patterns and transformations.

The text focuses on first encounters that suggest long-term developments. Because of the complexities of these encounters, the author takes a user-friendly approach to keep the text accessible to students with varying backgrounds in history.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book readers will be able to:

• Understand the dynamics of cultural contact and exchange as agents of historical change
• View cultural encounters as more than a political struggle between dominant and subordinate people
• See the impact of first encounters and longer-term, macro-historical encounters

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Dr. Jon Davidann is a professor of History at Hawai’i Pacific University and a graduate of the University of Minnesota.  He teaches courses in U.S., Japanese, and World History including the History of Oil.  Dr. Davidann’s research specialty is U.S.-Japanese relations and world history.  He is the author several books on U.S.-Japanese relations and world history.  He lives in Kailua, Hawai’i with his wife Beth and son Elijah.

Marc Jason Gilbert is the holder of an NEH-supported Chair in World History at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a former University System of Georgia Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning. He received his Ph.D in history in 1978 at UCLA, where he built his own program in world history out of a mixture of more traditional fields. He is a founding member of the World History Association and one of its initial elected officers.More than a decade ago, he founded and served as executive director of the Southeastern World History Association. He has codirected two Summer Institutes for Teaching Advanced Placement World History. He has attempted to bring a global dimension to the study of south and southeast Asian history in numerous articles and books, such as Why the North Won the Vietnam War.