World Environmental History

Jerry H. Bentley was a professor of history at the University of Hawaii, USA and editor of the Journal of World History. His research concentrated on global history, and particularly on processes of cross-cultural interaction. His book Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York, 1993) examines processes of cultural exchange and religious conversion before the modern era, and his pamphlet Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship (Washington, DC, 1996) discusses the historiography of world history. His interests included processes of cross-cultural interaction and cultural exchanges in modern times. Dr. Bentley passed away in 2012.