A Companion to World History (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Northrop, Douglas

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Produktbeschreibung

A COMPANION TOWORLD HISTORY "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" Choice "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." English Historical Review A Companion to World History 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, A Companion to World History is an essential resource for the study of the world's past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118305478
• Artikelnr.: 37352395

Autorenporträt

Douglas Northrop is Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. His first book, Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (2004), won the W. Bruce Lincoln Prize and the Heldt Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables x Notes on Contributors xi Editor's
Acknowledgments xviii Introduction: The Challenge of World History 1
Douglas Northrop PART I TRAJECTORIES AND PRACTICES 13 1 World History:
Departures and Variations 15 Kenneth Pomeranz and Daniel A. Segal 2 Why and
How I Became a World Historian 32 Dominic Sachsenmaier Researching the
world: techniques and methods 43 3 Becoming a World Historian: The State of
Graduate Training in World History and Placement in the Academic World 45
Heather Streets-Salter 4 The World Is Your Archive? The Challenges of World
History as a Field of Research 63 Barbara Weinstein 5 What Are the Units of
World History? 79 Adam McKeown Teaching the world: publics and pedagogies
95 6 Meetings of World History and Public History 97 Leslie Witz 7
Challenges of Teaching and Learning World History 111 Robert B. Bain 8
Teaching World History at the College Level 128 Trevor Getz PART II
CATEGORIES AND CONCEPTS 141 Framing 142 9 Environments, Ecologies, and
Cultures across Space and Time 143 I.G. Simmons 10 Deep Pasts:
Interconnections and Comparative History in the Ancient World 156 Norman
Yoffee 11 Big History 171 Fred Spier 12 Global Scale Analysis in Human
History 185 Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 13 Region in Global
History 201 Paul A. Kramer 14 Scales of a Local: The Place of Locality in a
Globalizing World 213 Anne Gerritsen Comparing 227 15 Comparative History
and the Challenge of the Grand Narrative 229 Michael Adas 16 The Science of
Difference: Race, Indo-European Linguistics,and Eurasian Nomads 244 Xinru
Liu 17 Projecting Power: Empires, Colonies, and World History 258 Mrinalini
Sinha 18 The Body in/as World History 272 Antoinette Burton 19 Benchmarks
of Globalization: The Global Condition, 1850-2010 285 Charles Bright and
Michael Geyer Connecting 301 20 Networks, Interactions, and Connective
History 303 Felipe Fernández-Armesto with Benjamin Sacks 21 Objects in
Motion 321 Scott C. Levi 22 People in Motion 339 Kerry Ward 23 Religious
Ideas in Motion 352 Karin Vélez, Sebastian R. Prange, and Luke Clossey 24
Diseases in Motion 365 Martin S. Pernick 25 Bullets in Motion 375 Stephen
Morillo PART III MANY GLOBES: WHO WRITES THE WORLD? 389 26 The World from
Oceania 391 Damon Ieremia Salesa 27 The World from China 405 Weiwei Zhang
28 Historicizing the World in Northeast Asia 418 Jie-Hyun Lim 29 Writing
Global History in Africa 433 David Simo 30 Islamicate World Histories? 447
Huri Islamo?lu 31 The World from Latin America and the Peripheries 464
Eduardo Devés-Valdés 32 (Re)Writing World Histories in Europe 478 Katja
Naumann 33 Other Globes: Shifting Optics on the World 497 Douglas
NorthropBibliography 527 Index 576 List of Maps, Figures, and Tables x
Notes on Contributors xi Editor's Acknowledgments xviii Introduction: The
Challenge of World History 1 Douglas Northrop PART I TRAJECTORIES AND
PRACTICES 13 1 World History: Departures and Variations 15 Kenneth Pomeranz
and Daniel A. Segal 2 Why and How I Became a World Historian 32 Dominic
Sachsenmaier Researching the world: techniques and methods 43 3 Becoming a
World Historian: The State of Graduate Training in World History and
Placement in the Academic World 45 Heather Streets-Salter 4 The World Is
Your Archive? The Challenges of World History as a Field of Research 63
Barbara Weinstein 5 What Are the Units of World History? 79 Adam McKeown
Teaching the world: publics and pedagogies 95 6 Meetings of World History
and Public History 97 Leslie Witz 7 Challenges of Teaching and Learning
World History 111 Robert B. Bain 8 Teaching World History at the College
Level 128 Trevor Getz PART II CATEGORIES AND CONCEPTS 141 Framing 142 9
Environments, Ecologies, and Cultures across Space and Time 143 I.G.
Simmons 10 Deep Pasts: Interconnections and Comparative History in the
Ancient World 156 Norman Yoffee 11 Big History 171 Fred Spier 12 Global
Scale Analysis in Human History 185 Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D.
Hall 13 Region in Global History 201 Paul A. Kramer 14 Scales of a Local:
The Place of Locality in a Globalizing World 213 Anne Gerritsen Comparing
227 15 Comparative History and the Challenge of the Grand Narrative 229
Michael Adas 16 The Science of Difference: Race, Indo-European Linguistics,
and Eurasian Nomads 244 Xinru Liu 17 Projecting Power: Empires, Colonies,
and World History 258 Mrinalini Sinha 18 The Body in/as World History 272
Antoinette Burton 19 Benchmarks of Globalization: The Global Condition,
1850-2010 285 Charles Bright and Michael Geyer Connecting 301 20 Networks,
Interactions, and Connective History 303 Felipe Fernández-Armesto with
Benjamin Sacks 21 Objects in Motion 321 Scott C. Levi 22 People in Motion
339 Kerry Ward 23 Religious Ideas in Motion 352 Karin Vélez, Sebastian R.
Prange, and Luke Clossey 24 Diseases in Motion 365 Martin S. Pernick 25
Bullets in Motion 375 Stephen Morillo PART III MANY GLOBES: WHO WRITES THE
WORLD? 389 26 The World from Oceania 391 Damon Ieremia Salesa 27 The World
from China 405 Weiwei Zhang 28 Historicizing the World in Northeast Asia
418 Jie-Hyun Lim 29 Writing Global History in Africa 433 David Simo 30
Islamicate World Histories? 447 Huri Islamo?lu 31 The World from Latin
America and the Peripheries 464 Eduardo Devés-Valdés 32 (Re)Writing World
Histories in Europe 478 Katja Naumann 33 Other Globes: Shifting Optics on
the World 497 Douglas Northrop Bibliography 527 Index 576

Rezensionen

"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" (Choice)

"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." (English Historical Review)