{"product_id":"old-world-encounters-jerry-h-bentley-9780195076400","title":"Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times","description":"This innovative book examines cross-cultural encounters before 1492, focusing in particular on the major cross-cultural influences that transformed Asia and Europe during this period: the ancient silk roads that linked China with the Roman Empire, the spread of the world religions, and the Mongol Empire of the thirteenth century. The author's goal throughout the work is to examine the conditions--political, social, economic, or cultural--that enable one culture to influence, mix with, or suppress another. On the basis of its global analysis, the book identifies several distinctive pattern of conversion, conflict, and compromise that emerged from cross-cultural encounters. In doing so, it elucidates that larger historical context of encounters between Europeans and other peoples in modern times. \u003cem\u003eOld World Encounters\u003c\/em\u003e is ideal for students of world geography, religion, and civilizations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerry H. Bentley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195076400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195076400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.34h x 5.50w x 0.72d","brand":"Jerry H. Bentley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46217076015359,"sku":"9780195076400","price":102.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e52ee9c6-22bf-4c2f-85b0-3626cd8e6d4a.jpg?v=1728514211","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/old-world-encounters-jerry-h-bentley-9780195076400","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}