The Material of World History (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Chen, Tina Mai; Churchill, David S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317630180
• Artikelnr.: 42554818

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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