Places of Encounter provides a place-based approach to world history, focusing on specific locations at critical moments when human history was transformed as a result of encountersphysical, political, cultural, intellectual, and religious.

Table of Contents

• About the Contributors
• Preface
• Thematic Table of Contents
• Regional Table of Contents
• 1 CAPE TOWN: At the Cross-Currents of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds (1500-1800) - Aran S. MacKinnon, University of West Georgia
• 2 SALVADOR DA BAHIA: A South-Atlantic Colonial Crossroads (1549-1822) - Christopher Ebert, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
• 3 NAGASAKI: Fusion Point for Commerce and Culture (1571-1945) - Lane Earns, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
• 4 LONDON: Emerging Global City of Empire (1660-1851) - Dana Rabin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• 5 GORÉE: At the Confluence of the Atlantic, Saharan, and Sahelian Worlds (1677-1890) - Trevor R. Getz, San Francisco State University
• 6 PARIS: City of Absolutism and Enlightenment (1700s) - Charles T. Lipp, University of West Georgia
• 7 CALCUTTA: A Central Exchange Point for Widely Separate Worlds (1700-1840) - Jonathan E. Brooke, William Carey University
• 8 SHANGHAI: From Chinese Hub Port to Global Treaty Port (1730-1865) - Christopher A. Reed, Ohio State University
• 9 ALGIERS: A Colonial Metropolis Transformed to a Global City (ca. 1800-1954) - Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona
• 10 GALLIPOLI: War’s Global Concourse (1915) - Edward J. Erickson, Marine Corps Command and Staff College
• 11 ST. PETERSBURG: The Russian Revolution and the Making of the Twentieth Century (1890-1918) - Elaine MacKinnon, University of West Georgia
• 12 KINSHASA: Confluence of Riches and Blight (1800s-1900s) - Didier Gondola, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
• 13 BERLIN: A Global Symbol of the Iron Curtain (1945-1991) - Eliza Ablovatski, Kenyon College and Elaine MacKinnon, University of West Georgia
• 14 NEW YORK: Opportunity and Struggle in a Global City (1911-2011) - Gregory Smithsimon, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
• 15 DUBAI: Global Gateway in the Desert (1820-2010) - Neema Noori, University of West Georgia