World History

ISBN-13: 9780631208990 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 300 str.

Philip Pomper; Richard T. Vann; Richard Elphick

Opis

World history is currently one of the most exciting areas of discussion amongst historians.

Spis treści

List of Contributors vii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction: The Theory and Practice of World History 1
Philip Pomper

Part 1 Mapping the Field

1 The Changing Shape of World History 21
William H. McNeill

2 Crossing Boundaries: Ecumenical, World, and Global History 41
Bruce Mazlish

3 Periodizing World History 53
William A. Green

Part II Rethinking Structure, Agency, and Ideology

4 The World–System Perspective in the Construction of Economic History 69
Janet Lippman Abu–Lughod

5 Bringing Ideas and Agency Back In: Representation and the Comparative Approach to World History 81
Michael Adas

6 World Histories and the Construction of Collective Identities 105
S. N. Eisenstadt

Part II Unbinding Identities

8 History s Forgotten Doubles 159
Ashis Nandy

9 Identify in World History: A Postmodern Perspective 179
Lewis D. Wurgaft

Part IV Charting Trajectories

10 World History, Cultural Relativism, and the Global Future 217
Theodore H. Von Laue

Notes 235

Index 272

O autorze

Philip Pomper is William F. Armstrong Professor of History at Wesleyan University. He is also Associate Editor of History and Theory. He has written primarily on the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia and on the uses of psychology in history.

Richard H. Elphick is Professor of History at Wesleyan Univeristy. He has written on the origins of white dominance in Southern Africa and on the history of Liberalism and Christianity in the region. He is currently interested in missions and Christianity in world history.

Richard T. Vann is Professor of History and letters at Wesleyan University. He is Senior Editor of History and Theory and has written on the history of family life in a world perspective.

Blurb

World history is currently one of the most exciting areas of discussion amongst historians. In this book some of the most distinguished scholars and public intellectuals in the field present magisterial overviews and innovative approaches to the key problems of world history. Others offer radical postmodern and postcolonial critiques of holism, identity, and Western "scientific" history in favor of a different kind of universalism. The collection thus presents both the development of the field and current lively debates within it, challenging readers to rethink their notions about the direction, meanings, and uses of world history.

The book is intended to stimulate lively discussion among both teachers and students and to suggest new ways to conceptualize and organize their study of world history. It will be welcomed by all those interested in teaching history courses attuned to the global era in which we live.