The Oxford Handbook of World History

Jerry H. Bentley: Introduction: The Task of World History; Part I: Concepts; 1 Michael Bentley: Theories of World History since the Enlightenment; 2 Martin W. Lewis: Geographies; 3 Luiji Cajani: Periodization; 4 Matthew Lauzon: Modernity; 5 Jurgen Osterhammel: Globalization; 6 Patrick Manning: Epistemology; Part II: Themes; 7 David Christian: World Environmental History; 8 John A. Mears: Agriculture; 9 Thomas J. Barfield: Nomadic Pastoralism; 10 Charles Tilly: States, State Formation, and War; 11 Marnie Hughes-Warrington: Genders; 12 Zvi Ben-Dor Benite: Religions and World History; 13 Daniel R. Headrick: Technology, Engineering, and Science; 14 Kenneth Pomeranz: Advanced Agriculture; Part III: Processes; 15 Dirk Hoerder: Migrations; 16 James D. Tracy: Trade across Eurasia to about 1750; 17 Patrick Karl O'Brien: Industrialization; 18 J. R. McNeill: Biological Exchanges in World History; 19 Jerry H. Bentley: Cultural Exchanges; 20 Thomas T. Allsen: Premodern Empires; 21 Prasenjit Duara: Modern Imperialism; Part IV: Regions; 22 Peter C. Perdue: East Asia and Central Eurasia; 23 Andre Wink: South Asia and Southeast Asia; 24 John Obert Voll: The Middle East in World History; 25 Christopher Ehret: Africa in World History: The Long, Long View; 26 Bonnie Smith and Donald R. Kelley: Europe and Russia in World History; 27 David Abulafia: The Mediterranean Basin; 28 Edward J. Davies, II: The Americas, 1450-2000; 29 Alan L. Karras: The Atlantic Ocean Basin; 30 Paul d'Arcy: Ocenia and Australasia; 31 Rainer F. Buschmann: The Pacific Ocean Basin to 1850

Jerry H. Bentley was professor of history at the University of Hawai`i and editor of the Journal of World History. He wrote extensively on the cultural history of early modern Europe and on cross-cultural interactions in world history, including Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance (1983), and Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples (1987), and in later years, concentrated on global history and particularly on processes of cross-cultural interaction, resulting in Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (1993) and Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship (1996). He passed away in 2012.