List of Maps
1: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges
2: The Era of the Ancient Silk Roads
3: Missionaries, Pilgrims, and the Spread of the World
Religions
4: The Age of the Nomadic Empires
5: Toward a New World Order
Bibliography
Index
"Excellent! Very interesting parallel reading for [an]
undergraduate course in medieval history."--Paul R. Waibel,
Belhaven College
"An outstanding example of cross-cultural methodology that adds
relevance to the usually Eurocentric World History course. Provides
a rare glimpse at the ways in which European civilization was
enriched by contact with the Middle East, Asia and Africa."--Prof.
James A. Brown, Tougaloo College
"[A]n excellent survey of a central subject....It is eminently
suitable for...classroom use. My international affairs graduate
students, who have only a modest background in history, grasped its
messages easily and rated it very highly both for enjoyment and for
intellectual provocation. I found it a smooth read, finely
proportioned, and a most useful survey of its subject."--J.R.
McNeill (Georgetown University) in Journal of World History
"Will be very useful to my teaching of medieval trade and travel,
and encounters between East and West."--Olivia Constable, Notre
Dame University
"...themes are treated by the author with skill, clarity, and,
above all, brevity....Old World Encounters is a good introductory
textbook for general courses on world history or Asian
history."--The International History Review
"Bentley uses a wide range of sources, but he wears his learning
easily, so that even beginning undergraduates can profit from this
book."--Teaching History
"Useful to introduce students to cross-cultural contacts."--Lydia
M. Garner, Southwest Texas State University
"A marvelous survey of cross-cultural networks in
Afro-Eurasia."--Peter Arnade, California State University at San
Marcos
"Looks like a wonderful global study of a process fundamental to
world history. Will certainly enrich my course
significantly."--Stephen Morillo, Wabash College
"Eloquently shows trade and religion as the binding forces among
Eurasian civilizations in the pre-1500 era. The book is a fine
supplement in our world civilization program."--Steven F. Sage,
Middle Tennessee State University
"A first-rate piece of work. Every student of early global history
should read this book."--A.J. Andrea, University of Vermont
"An important book, one that few world civilizations teachers
should be without, and one to build a course around."--Robert S.
Babcock, Hastings College
"[The book] could be used in a great variety of world history
courses that are now appearing in American universities....One that
I would certainly assign to my students in my World History
course."--Philip D. Curtin, Johns Hopkins University
"Very good indeed....Bentley's book brings together lots of
materials known only to specialists, and does so in an attractive
way....The strength of the work is its devotion to a global
approach to understanding cultural interchanges."--Edmund Burke
III, University of California, Santa Cruz
"This is an important theme often neglected in survey
courses."--William F. Lye, Utah State University
"Eloqently demonstrates the interplay between religion and trade as
co-factors in facilitating cultural exchange across
Eurasia."--Steven F. Sage, Middle Tennessee State University
"A valuable survey highlighting a key element for introducing
students to the interactive nature of world history."--Melvin E.
Page, East Tennessee State University
"Bentley's book is a marvelous survey of cross-cultural networks in
Afro-Eurasian."--Peter Arnade, CSU San Marcos
"A fascinating book! I am recommending it to our Global History
program."--R.D. Ware, University of Massachusetts
"Excellent!! A very interesting approach."--William Robison,
Southeastern Louisianna University
"A sound and even exciting addition to the growing literature on
the premodern world system. His approach is admirable in its
non-Eurocentrism."--American Historical Review
"Comprehensive, informative, current in its scholarship, as well as
balanced in its emphases and conclusions....A useful book. A
specialist on any given area or topic is bound to come away from it
with broadened horizons, and it will serve the general reader
well."--Journal of Asian Studies
"A work of synthesis, a well-written text which could be used
profitably for an undergraduate course....The Bentley bibliography
is an excellent guide to further reading."--Sixteenth Century
Journal Review
"A useful book...a specialist in any given area or topic is bound
to come away from it with broadened horizons."--The Journal of
Asian Studies
"The scholarship supporting this study is impressive; the
fourteen-page bibliography contains all of the relevant and recent
publications...also very well written and organized. It should be
in the library of all scholars interested or involved in teaching
or researching world history or global studies."--The Historian
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