----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]