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<p>Notes on Contributors viii</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p><b>Part I Premodern Historical Thought 19</b></p> <p>1 History as a Way of Remembering the Past: Early India 21<br /><i>Romila Thapar</i></p> <p>2 Classical Chinese Historical Thought 34<br /><i>Michael Puett</i></p> <p>3 The Romance of the Middle Ages: Discovering the Past in Early Modern Japan 47<br /><i>Thomas Keirstead</i></p> <p>4 Buddhist Worlds 63<br /><i>Ian Harris</i></p> <p>5 Premodern Arabic/Islamic Historical Writing 78<br /><i>Tarif Khalidi</i></p> <p>6 Ottoman Historical Thought 92<br /><i>Gottfried Hagen and Ethan L. Menchinger</i></p> <p>7 "Premodern" Pasts: South Asia 107<br /><i>Rosalind O’Hanlon</i></p> <p>8 History, Exile, and Counter-History: Jewish Perspectives 122<br /><i>Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin</i></p> <p><b>Part II Historiographies 137</b></p> <p>9 The Legacy of Greece and Rome 139<br /><i>Freyja Cox Jensen</i></p> <p>10 America and Global Historical Thought in the Early Modern Period 153<br /><i>Karen Ordahl Kupperman</i></p> <p>11 European Societies and their Norms in the Process of Expansion: The Iberian Cases 169<br /><i>Jean-Frédéric Schaub</i></p> <p>12 The Global in Enlightenment Historical Thought 184<br /><i>Jennifer Pitts</i></p> <p>13 Hegel, Marx, and World History 197<br /><i>Andrew Sartori</i></p> <p>14 The World of Modern Japanese Historiography: Tribulations and Transformations in Historical Approaches 213<br /><i>Curtis Anderson Gayle</i></p> <p>15 Critical Theories of Modernity 228<br /><i>Viren Murthy</i></p> <p>16 On the Compatibility of Chinese and European History: A Marxist Approach 243<br /><i>Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik</i></p> <p>17 Modern Historiography in Southeast Asia: The Case of Thailand’s Royal-Nationalist History 257<br /><i>Thongchai Winichakul</i></p> <p>18 Historical Thought in the Other America 269<br /><i>Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo</i></p> <p>19 Histories of History in South Asia 293<br /><i>Prathama Banerjee</i></p> <p>20 Modern Historiography – Arab World 308<br /><i>Alexis Wick</i></p> <p>21 The Burden of Peculiarity: History and Historical Thought in Africa 321<br /><i>Andreas Eckert</i></p> <p><b>Part III G lobal Histories and New Directions 335</b></p> <p>22 Oceanic History 337<br /><i>Michael Pearson</i></p> <p>23 Environmental History and World History: Parallels, Intersections, and Tensions 351<br /><i>Kenneth Pomeranz</i></p> <p>24 Dependency Theory and World-Systems Analysis 369<br /><i>Ravi Arvind Palat</i></p> <p>25 Empires and Imperialism 384<br /><i>Prasenjit Duara</i></p> <p>26 Histories of Globalization(s) 399<br /><i>Michael Lang</i></p> <p>27 Comparative History and Its Critics: A Genealogy and a Possible Solution 412<br /><i>George Steinmetz</i></p> <p>28 Women, Gender, and the Global 437<br /><i>Bonnie G. Smith</i></p> <p>29 Indigenes and Settlers (Fourth World) 451<br /><i>Lorenzo Veracini</i></p> <p>30 History, Memory, Justice 466<br /><i>Klaus Neumann</i></p> <p>31 Beyond the Nation: Textbook Controversies and Contestations in a Globalizing World 482<br /><i>Hanna Schissler</i></p> <p>Index 496</p>

<p>“A Companion to Global Historical Thoughtbelongs on the shelf of every academic library supporting any kind of history programme. The essays are thoughtful, thought-provoking and exhaustively footnoted . . . These essays are excellent end products to enjoy or places to start the journey to study big picture history.”  (<i>Reference Reviews</i>, 1 October 2015)</p> <p> </p>

<p><b>Prasenjit Duara</b> is the Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of the Asia Research Institute as well as Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at National University of Singapore. He is the author of <i>Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900–1942</i> (1988), which won the Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, USA.</p> <p><b>Viren Murthy</b> is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he specializes in Modern Chinese and Japanese intellectual history. He is the author of <i>The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness</i> (2011). </p> <p><b>Andrew Sartori</b> is Associate Professor of History at New York University, USA. He is co-editor of <i>Global Intellectual History</i> (with Samuel Moyn, 2013), the author of <i>Bengal in Global Concept History</i> (2008), and co-editor of <i>From the Colonial to the Postcolonial</i> (with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Rochona Majumdar, 2007). He is also co-editor of the journal <i>Critical Historical Studies</i>.</p>

<p><i>A Companion to Global Historical Thought</i> provides an overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, directly addressing issues of historiography in a globalized context. Questions concerning the global dissemination of historical writing and the relationship between historiography and other ways of representing the past have become important not only in the academic study of history, but also in public arenas in many countries. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book considers the problem of "the global" – in the multiplicity of traditions of narrating the past; in the global dissemination of modern historical writing; and of "the global" as a concept animating historical imaginations. It explores the different intellectual approaches that have shaped the discipline of history, and the challenges posed by modernity and globalization, while illustrating the shifts in thinking about time and the emergence of historical thought.</p> Complementing the <i>Companion to Western Historical Thought,</i> this book places non-Western perspectives on historiography at the center of discussion, helping scholars and students alike make sense of the discipline at the start of the twenty-first century.

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