Cross-cultural encounters in modern world history
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Pearson ,
c2013
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Power and unpredictability, conquistadors, and native peoples : conquest of the Americas
- 2. Europeans on the margin : missionaries and indigenous response in East Asia
- 3. Empires of difference : the Ottoman model of a multicultural state
- 4. Cultures in competition : Native American encounters with Europeans
- 5. From first contact to entanglement : Polynesian encounters with Euro-Americans
- 6. On the frontiers of central Asia : Russia, China and Steppe empires in Eurasia
- 7. Altered states : British imperialism and the rise of Indian nationalism
- 8. The Japanese in East Asia : a non-western empire and nationalist reactions
- 9. Mapping Africa : European perceptions and African realities
- 10. Testing the limits of multiculturalism : immigration into Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first century