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A Companion to World History


A Companion to World History


Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History 1. Aufl.

von: Douglas Northrop

37,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 02.08.2012
ISBN/EAN: 9781118305485
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 640

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<p><b>A COMPANION TOWORLD HISTORY</b></p> <p>"This new volume offers insightful reflections by both leading and emerging world historians on approaches, methodologies, arguments, and pedagogies of a sub-discipline that has continued to be in flux as well as in need of defining itself as a relevant alternative to the traditional national, regional, or chronological fields of inquiry"<br /><i>Choice</i></p> <p>"The focus...on the practicalities of how to do world history probably gives it its edge. Its thirty-three chapters are grouped into sections that address how to set up research projects in world history, how to teach it, how to get jobs in it, how to frame it, and how it is done in various parts of the globe. It is an actual handbook, in other words, as opposed to a sample of exemplary work."<br /><i>English Historical Review</i></p> <p><i>A Companion to World History</i> offers a comprehensive overview of the variety of approaches and practices utilized in the field of world and global history. This state-of-the-art collection of more than 30 insightful essays – including contributions from an international cast of leading world historians and emerging scholars in the field – identifies continuing areas of contention, disagreement, and divergence, while pointing out fruitful directions for further discussion and research. Themes and topics explored include the lineages and trajectories of world history, key ideas and methods employed by world historians, the teaching of world history and how it draws upon and challenges "traditional" approaches, and global approaches to writing world history. By considering these interwoven issues of scholarship and pedagogy from a transnational, interregional, and world/global scale, fresh insights are gained and new challenges posed. With its rich compendium of diverse viewpoints, <i>A Companion to World History</i> is an essential resource for the study of the world's past.</p>
<p>List of Maps, Figures, and Tables x</p> <p>Notes on Contributors xi</p> <p>Editor’s Acknowledgments xviii</p> <p>Introduction: The Challenge of World History 1<br /> <i>Douglas Northrop</i></p> <p><b>Part I Trajectories And Practices 13</b></p> <p>1 World History: Departures and Variations 15<br /> <i>Kenneth Pomeranz and Daniel A. Segal</i></p> <p>2 Why and How I Became a World Historian 32<br /> <i>Dominic Sachsenmaier</i></p> <p><b>Researching the world: techniques and methods 43</b></p> <p>3 Becoming a World Historian: The State of Graduate Training in World History and Placement in the Academic World 45<br /> <i>Heather Streets-Salter</i></p> <p>4 The World Is Your Archive? The Challenges of World History as a Field of Research 63<br /> <i>Barbara Weinstein</i></p> <p>5 What Are the Units of World History? 79<br /> <i>Adam McKeown</i></p> <p><b>Teaching the world: publics and pedagogies 95</b></p> <p>6 Meetings of World History and Public History 97<br /> <i>Leslie Witz</i></p> <p>7 Challenges of Teaching and Learning World History 111<br /> <i>Robert B. Bain</i></p> <p>8 Teaching World History at the College Level 128<br /> <i>Trevor Getz</i></p> <p><b>Part II Categories and Concepts 141</b></p> <p><b>Framing 142</b></p> <p>9 Environments, Ecologies, and Cultures across Space and Time 143<br /> <i>I.G. Simmons</i></p> <p>10 Deep Pasts: Interconnections and Comparative History in the Ancient World 156<br /> <i>Norman Yoffee</i></p> <p>11 Big History 171<br /> <i>Fred Spier</i></p> <p>12 Global Scale Analysis in Human History 185<br /> <i>Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall</i></p> <p>13 Region in Global History 201<br /> <i>Paul A. Kramer</i></p> <p>14 Scales of a Local: The Place of Locality in a Globalizing World 213<br /> <i>Anne Gerritsen</i></p> <p><b>Comparing 227</b></p> <p>15 Comparative History and the Challenge of the Grand Narrative 229<br /> <i>Michael Adas</i></p> <p>16 The Science of Difference: Race, Indo-European Linguistics, and Eurasian Nomads 244<br /> <i>Xinru Liu</i></p> <p>17 Projecting Power: Empires, Colonies, and World History 258<br /> <i>Mrinalini Sinha</i></p> <p>18 The Body in/as World History 272<br /> <i>Antoinette Burton</i></p> <p>19 Benchmarks of Globalization: The Global Condition, 1850–2010 285<br /> <i>Charles Bright and Michael Geyer</i></p> <p><b>Connecting 301</b></p> <p>20 Networks, Interactions, and Connective History 303<br /> <i>Felipe Fernández-Armesto with Benjamin Sacks</i></p> <p>21 Objects in Motion 321<br /> <i>Scott C. Levi</i></p> <p>22 People in Motion 339<br /> <i>Kerry Ward</i></p> <p>23 Religious Ideas in Motion 352<br /> <i>Karin Vélez, Sebastian R. Prange, and Luke Clossey</i></p> <p>24 Diseases in Motion 365<br /> <i>Martin S. Pernick</i></p> <p>25 Bullets in Motion 375<br /> <i>Stephen Morillo</i></p> <p><b>Part III Many Globes: Who Writes the World? 389</b></p> <p>26 The World from Oceania 391<br /> <i>Damon Ieremia Salesa</i></p> <p>27 The World from China 405<br /> <i>Weiwei Zhang</i></p> <p>28 Historicizing the World in Northeast Asia 418<br /> <i>Jie-Hyun Lim</i></p> <p>29 Writing Global History in Africa 433<br /> <i>David Simo</i></p> <p>30 Islamicate World Histories? 447<br /> <i>Huri Islamoğlu</i></p> <p>31 The World from Latin America and the Peripheries 464<br /> <i>Eduardo Devés-Valdés</i></p> <p>32 (Re)Writing World Histories in Europe 478<br /> <i>Katja Naumann</i></p> <p>33 Other Globes: Shifting Optics on the World 497<br /> <i>Douglas Northrop</i></p> <p>Bibliography 527</p> <p>Index 576</p>
<p>“This new volume offers insightful reflections by both leading and emerging world historians on approaches, methodologies, arguments, and pedagogies of a sub-discipline that has continued to be in flux as well as in need of defining itself as a relevant alternative to the traditional national, regional, or chronological fields of inquiry” <i>(Choice)</i></p> <p>"The focus...on the practicalities of how to do world history probably gives it its edge. Its thirty-three chapters are grouped into sections that address how to set up research projects in world history, how to teach it, how to get jobs in it, how to frame it, and how it is done in various parts of the globe. It is an actual handbook, in other words, as opposed to a sample of exemplary work." <i>(English Historical Review)</i></p>
<p><b>Douglas Northrop</b> is Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. His first book, <i>Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia</i> (2004), won the W. Bruce Lincoln Prize and the Heldt Prize.
<p>A COMPANION TOWORLD HISTORY <p>“This new volume offers insightful reflections by both leading and emerging world historians on approaches, methodologies, arguments, and pedagogies of a sub-discipline that has continued to be in flux as well as in need of defining itself as a relevant alternative to the traditional national, regional, or chronological fields of inquiry”<i> Choice</i> <p>“The focus...on the practicalities of how to do world history probably gives it its edge. Its thirty-three chapters are grouped into sections that address how to set up research projects in world history, how to teach it, how to get jobs in it, how to frame it, and how it is done in various parts of the globe. It is an actual handbook, in other words, as opposed to a sample of exemplary work.” <i>English Historical Review</i> <p><i>A Companion to World History </i>offers a comprehensive overview of the variety of approaches and practices utilized in the field of world and global history. This state-of-the-art collection of more than 30 insightful essays – including contributions from an international cast of leading world historians and emerging scholars in the field – identifies continuing areas of contention, disagreement, and divergence, while pointing out fruitful directions for further discussion and research. Themes and topics explored include the lineages and trajectories of world history, key ideas and methods employed by world historians, the teaching of world history and how it draws upon and challenges “traditional” approaches, and global approaches to writing world history. By considering these interwoven issues of scholarship and pedagogy from a transnational, interregional, and world/global scale, fresh insights are gained and new challenges posed. With its rich compendium of diverse viewpoints, <i>A Companion to World History</i> is an essential resource for the study of the world’s past.

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