Universal History and the Making of the Global

ISBN-13: 9781138316195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 250 str.

Hall Bjrnstad; Helge Jordheim; Anne Regent-Susini

Opis

Is it possible to imagine a history that includes everything and everyone? This volume argues that the deep ancestor to modern notions of "globalization" can be found in the writing practice known as universal history – an early modern laboratory of intense and diverse attempts at thinking history and universals together.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Hall Bjørnstad, Helge Jordheim and Anne Régent-Susini  2. On the History of Universal History  Gérard Ferreyrolles  Section I: Past: Universality and Histories  3. The Unity of History in Early Modern Europe  Zachary Sayre Schiffman  4. "Even Fables Will Become History": La Popelinière and Universal History at the End of the Sixteenth Century  Philippe Desan  5. Experience, Confusion, and History in Bossuet’s Discourse on Universal History  John D. Lyons  6. Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and the End of History  Guillaume Ansart  Section II: Present: Time and Visualization  7. Providential Novelties: Werner Rolevinck’s Universal Timelines  Patricia Clare Ingham  8. Tattoos and Time: Visual Ethnography and Universal History in A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1590)  Tony Sandset  9. Histoire de l’œil, œil de l’histoire: Can We See Universal History? About Bossuet’s Discourse on Universal History  Anne Régent-Susini  10. Making Universal Time: Tools of Synchronization  Helge Jordheim  Section III: Future: Pedagogy and Politics  11. Between Providence and Foresight: Bossuet’s Discourse on Universal History  Hall Bjørnstad  12. Commonplaces and Simple Truths: Ludvig Holberg's Synopsis historiæ universalis (1733) and the Tradition of Textbooks  Anne Eriksen  13. Universal History and the Lessons of the French Revolution in Friedrich Schiller  Johannes Türk  14. Historicization and Perpetuation of the French Language: A Laboratory of the Universal  Hélène Merlin-Kajman