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Book SynopsisDistinguished writers provide new approaches to cross-cultural history
Trade Review"This is a very good and useful collection of essays, all of a very high scholarly quality.... [E]xtensive coverage of ethnic and gender issues will enhance its appeal to insturctors."—
Craig Lockard, Professor of Social Change and Development, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Michael Adas 1. Islamic History as Global History - Richard M. Eaton 2. Gender and Islamic History - Judith Tucker 3. The World System in the Thirteenth Century: Dead-End or Precursor? - Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod 4. The Age of Gunpowder Empires, 1450-1800 - William H. McNeill 5. The Columbian Voyages, the Columbian Exchange, and Their Historians - Alfred W. Crosby 6. The Tropical Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade - Philip D. Curtin 7. Interpreting the Industrial Revolution - Peter N. Stearns 8. Industrialization and Gender Inequality - Louise A. Tilly 9. "High" Imperialism and the "New" History - Michael Adas 10. Gender, Sex, and Empire - Margaret Strobel The Contributors
