Encounters Old and New in World History

Encounters Old and New in World History

Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley

In: Perspectives on the Global Past

With contributions by: Lauren Benton, Edmund Burke III, Trevor R. Getz, Candice Goucher, Alan Karras, Martin W. Lewis, Robert B. Marks, Laura J. Mitchell, Carla Rahn Phillips, William D. Philiips, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Theodore Jun Yoo
Edited by: Alan Karras, Laura J. Mitchell, Anand A. Yang and Kieko Matteson

University of Hawaii Press | 2017

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824866129

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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 their own academic areas of interest, are experienced scholars and classroom teachers. Uniting them together in this volume is their professional relationship with Jerry H. Bentley (1949–2012). This shared connection served as a catalyst to showcase Bentley’s enduring legacy: a commitment to investigating large-scale questions with detailed empirical evidence that explains the human condition—documenting both patterns of similarity and difference in ways that account for regional and temporal variations. The volume continues Bentley’s meticulous attention to world historical methods: focus on scale, cross-cultural encounter, comparison, periodization, critical geography, and interdisciplinarity.

Encounters Old and New in World History responds to provocations that Jerry Bentley tendered in his scholarship and through his professional activities. Contributors interrogate the institutional settings, disciplinary proclivities, methodological choices, and diverse source bases of world history research and teaching. Several essays address the ways in which present-day concerns influence research on local and global scales. Other essays pay particular attention to the production and circulation of knowledge across regional, temporal, and class boundaries, as well as between the academy and the wider public. Claiming the centrality of globally informed and focused approaches to historical inquiry, researchers continue the conversations that Bentley carried on through his own scholarship, teaching, editing of the Journal of World History, participating in public forums, and contributing to public discussions about the place of history in understanding today’s global integration.

The stakes involved in asking questions about the shared history of humankind continue to increase in the current era of intensified globalization. It is incumbent upon scholars with the skills to work across linguistic, geographic, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries to show the ways that cross-cultural encounters happened historically, and to point out how such interactions play out in the institutions, classrooms, and public debates where historical interpretations are created and shared.

Author information

KarrasAlan:

Alan Karras is associate director of international and area studies at the University of California, Berkeley.MitchellLaura J.:

Laura J. Mitchell is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.Alan Karras (Editor)
Alan Karras is associate director of international and area studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Laura J. Mitchell (Editor)
Laura J. Mitchell is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews

Kären Wigen, Stanford University:
Encounters Old and New in World History offers a diverse array of meditations, manifestos, and case-studies in world history, all inspired by or in some way responding to the work of Jerry H. Bentley. In style and content, the essays range from personal reflection to synthesis to primary research, but gratitude for Bentley’s energy and spirit as the prime mover of this field animates and unifies the whole collection.

J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University:
Jerry H. Bentley was a scholar, and a person, of broad reach, who one way or another touched literally thousands of colleagues and students. Through his editorship of the Journal of World History, his scholarly writings, and his textbook, he became the single most influential figure in Anglophone world history of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Free access PDF PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Writing World Histories for Our Times Alan Karras and Laura J. Mitchell Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
PART I :Publics and Practices
ONE. World Historians and the Future of Academic History A Research Manifesto Alan Karras Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	15
TWO .Making Porous and Expansive Boundaries Jerry Bentley, World History, and Global Publics Trevor R. Getz Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	29
THREE. Teaching World History in a Swirl of Standards Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	42
PART II: Identities and Encounters
FOUR .Encounters within Europe Travelers’ Views of Slavery in Renaissance Iberia Jr. Phillips Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	55
FIVE. The Sixteenth-Century World War and the Roots of the Modern World A View from the Edge Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	67
SIX. Who Owns the Fish in the Sea? The Dukes of Medina Sidonia and Spain’s Tuna Fisheries Carla Rahn Phillips Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	78
SEVEN .Eating the World The Iguana’s Tale of Caribbean Ecology and Culinary History Candice Goucher Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	91
EIGHT .Shaken or Stirred? Recreating Makgeolli for the Twenty-First Century Theodore Jun Yoo Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	107
PART III: Truth Claims and Enlightenment Shadows
NINE. Explanations of Species Extinction in Nineteenth-Century China and Europe Robert B. Marks Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	121
TEN. Shadows of Sovereignty Legal Encounters and the Politics of Protection in the Atlantic World Lauren Benton Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	136
ELEVEN .The Promise of—and the Threats to—Historical Linguistics as a Complement of Bentleyan World History Martin W. Lewis Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	151
TWELVE. Close Encounters of the Methodological Kind Contending with Enlightenment Legacies in World History Laura J. Mitchell Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	165
Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	181
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	185

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Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley

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