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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
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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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