The Material of World History

ISBN-13: 9781032098722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 226 str.

Tina Mai Chen; David S. Churchill

Opis

This volume considers the confluence of World History and the method of historical materialism, exploring the question of why - despite developments in the field of historical materialism concerned with the intersection of race, gender, labour, and class - historical materialism has been marginalized within the field of World History.

Spis treści

1. Material Matters: Recognizing the Confluence of World History and Historical Materialism  Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill, and Susie Fisher Stoesz  2. What is World History? A Critique of Pure Ideology  Rebecca Karl  Section One: The "Blind Spots" of Historical Materialism  3. Language, State, and Global Capitalism: "Global English" and Historical Materialism  Peter Ives  4. Open Secrets: Class, Affect, and Sexuality  Rosemary Hennessy  5. "As Its Foundations Totter": International Imperialism, Gendered Racial Capitalism, and the U.S. Literary Left in the Early Cold War  John Munro  Section Two: World History and Interconnectivity: Re-engaging Materialism and its Abstractions.  A. Spatial Categories and Norms of Interconnectedness  6. World History and International Relations: Disrupting the Discipline of the State  Todd Scarth  7. Local Struggles, Transnational Connections: Latin American Intellectuals and the Congress for Cultural Freedom  Jorge Nállim  B. Denaturalizing Economic Thought  8. Perpetual Peace, Technology, and Effeminacy: Adam Smith and Eighteenth-Century Debates  Erik Thomson  9. Understanding Global Interconnectedness: Catastrophic Generic Change  Mary Poovey  Section Three: Dialectical Inquiry, Historical Materialism, and the Localities of World History  10. Where the Dead Queued for Fuel: Zimbabweans Remember the Fuel Crisis and its Impact on the Funeral Industry, 1999-2008  Joyce M. Chadya  11. "We Are All Migrant Laborers": Democracy and Universal Politics  Hyun Ok Park

O autorze

Tina Mai Chen is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba.

David S. Churchill is Associate Professor of U.S. History at the University of Manitoba.