Book of Donmon Teith

This innovative book examines cross-cultural encounters before 1492, focusing in particular on the major cross-cultural influences that transformed Asia and Eur

For review see: J.W. Schulte Nordholt, in Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, jrg. 107, nr. 4 (1994); p. 591-592.

Based on Bentley and Ziegler's best-selling, comprehensive survey text, "Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History" provides a streamlined account of the

"This is History Book. It explored the grand scheme of world history as a product of real-life human beings pursuing their individual and collective interests.

The five centuries which have passed since the discovery of the New World have not diminished the overwhelming importance or strangeness of the early encounter