World History: The Basics

ISBN-13: 9780415582742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 208 str.

Peter N. Stearns

Opis

World history: the basics is one of the most popular and talked about approaches to the study of history. This title introduces this field and addresses key questions such as what is world history and how do we study a subject with such a broad geographic and chronological range, and why has world history been controversial?

Spis treści

1. Introduction: what and why is world history?  2. A World History Skeleton  3. Habits of Mind in World History  4. Managing Time: Choosing and Evaluating World History Periods  5. Managing Space: Choosing and Evaluating World History Regions  6. Managing Space and Time: Civilizations  7. Contacts and the Structure of World History  8. Topics in World History   9. Disputes in World History  10. World History in the Contemporary Era.  Glossary

O autorze

Peter N. Stearns is Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University. He is Series Editor for Routledge's Themes in World History and founder and editor of the Journal of Social History.