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Call for contributors - Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History 
  
Berkshire Publishing Group is seeking business and commerce historians and other experts
to write an article or two for the five-volume Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, to
be published in January 2005. This highly collaborative and international project will
result in a work that truly defines the rapidly growing field of world history. William
McNeill (author of Rise of the West and The Human Web) is serving as the senior editor and
is working with editors Jerry Bentley (University of Hawaii, editor of the Journal of
World History), David Christian (University of San Diego, author of Maps of Time), Heidi
Roupp (Founding editor of World History Connected), and Judith Zinsser (Miami University,
author of A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present) and
twenty other leading scholars and teachers serving as associate editors.
  
The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History will provide a broad, connected picture of
times past - from the Paleolithic era to the present - around the globe. The work covers
all facets of the human experience, with a focus on interactions across time and space. It
contains some 750 signed articles written by experts - 1.5 million words - along with
hundreds of illustrations, sidebars of primary source material, and appendices to aid in
research, teaching, and comparative study. The print edition will be published in five
volumes a year from now.
  
We have had a generous and enthusiastic response from the scholarly community. A majority
of articles have been assigned and many have already been written - by leading scholars
including Michael Adas (Race and Racism; Social Darwinism), Al Andrea (Byzantine Empire;
Crusades; Travel, Exploration, and Contact - Overview), Ralph Croizier (Confucius; Qin Shi
Huangdi; Revolution - China), Alfred Crosby (Columbian Exchange), Donna Gabaccia
(Diasporas; Migrations), Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Postmodernism; Writing World History),
Martin Marty (Religion - Overview; Religious Fundamentalism), John Mears (Human Evolution
- Overview; Austro-Hungarian Empire), Kenneth Pomeranz (Economic Growth, Intensive and
Extensive), Andrew Sherratt (Secondary Products Revolution), Peter Stearns (Social
History; Childhood), Ian Tattersall (Paleoanthropology), and Norman Yoffee (State
Societies, Emergence of). The comprehensive nature of our coverage means, however, that
there is a wide range of topics to be included. These topics are important, relevant, and
challenging - and have often not been fully treated from a world history perspective
before.
  
This is an exciting, challenging opportunity to be part of the community of historians
(and anthropologists, archaeologists, and scholars from other disciplines) who are
exploring and defining world history in a groundbreaking resource for students and general
readers. We welcome contributions from scholars and teachers and will be glad to provide
you with detailed writing guidelines and sample articles.
  
Contributors who write 2000 words or more will receive a free set of the encyclopedia
(estimated retail value: $600), and those who write more than 4000 words will receive an
honorarium as well. All articles will be peer-reviewed by the board of editors, and
authors will be fully acknowledged in the published work.
 
Please see the list of business and commerce-related articles that remain unassigned at
the bottom of this letter. If you are interested in writing any of the articles on the
list, send a message indicating which article(s) you're interested in writing, along with
a paragraph about your position, experience, and major relevant publications (we do not
need a CV at this stage), to our project editor, Sarah Conrick, at
[log in to unmask] We look forward to hearing from you.
  
With best regards,  
David Levinson 
Project Director 
Editor-in-chief of the 10-volume Encyclopedia of World Cultures (Macmillan 1991-1995) 
  
Berkshire's most recent publication in this area is the Encyclopedia of World
Environmental History (Berkshire/Routledge 2003), edited by Shepard Krech III, John R.
McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant: "This is the most ambitious effort yet to offer a
comprehensive overview of the long-term history of human interactions with the natural
world on a truly planetary scale. Contributors include some of the world's leading
environmental historians and the Encyclopedia of World Environmental History should be a
standard reference tool for years to come."--William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner
Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
 
Headword        Length   
Cereals 750      
Coal    750      
Copra   750      
Fur     750      
Guilds  750      
International Monetary Systems  750      
Internationalism        2000     
Locke, John     750      
Mineral Ores    750      
Natural Gas     750      
Periodization of Economic Development   2000     
Phosphates      750      
Precious Stones 750      
Property Rights and Contracts   2000     
Reciprocity     1000     
Tariffs 2000     
Trade Cycles    2000     
Trading Patterns, Ancient Asian 2000     
Trading Patterns, Indian Ocean  2000     
 
 
 
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