{"product_id":"the-new-world-history-9780520289895","title":"The New World History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship. It features forty-four articles that take stock of the history, evolving literature, and the trajectories of new world history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A valuable, sophisticated, and well-organized selection of papers written by many leading experts in the field... The New World History is a tour de force.\" World History Connected\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Introduction   Further Reading   CHAPTER 1 WORLD HISTORY OVER TIME: THE EVOLUTION OF AN INTELLECTUAL AND PEDAGOGICAL MOVEMENT   Introduction  The Rise of World History Scholarship * Craig A. Lockard  World History * Marnie Hughes-Warrington  Toward World History: American Historians and the Coming of the World History Course * Gilbert Allardyce  Marshall G. S. Hodgson and the Hemispheric Interregional Approach to World History * Edmund Burke III  Further Reading   CHAPTER 2 DEFINING WORLD HISTORY: SOME KEY STATEMENTS   Introduction  Hemispheric Interregional History as an Approach to World History * Marshall G. S. Hodgson  The Rise of the West after Twenty-Five Years * William H. McNeill  Depth, Span, and Relevance * Philip D. Curtin  A Plea for World System History * Andre Gunder Frank  Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History * Jerry H. Bentley  World History and the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality * Merry Wiesner-Hanks  Further Reading   CHAPTER 3 REGIONS IN WORLD-HISTORICAL CONTEXT   Introduction  The Middle East and North Africa in World History * Julia A. Clancy-Smith  No Longer Odd Region Out: Repositioning Latin America in World History * Lauren Benton  Southeast Asia in World History * Craig A. Lockard  American History as if the World Mattered (and Vice Versa) * Carl Guarneri  Further Reading   CHAPTER 4 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL SPACE   Introduction  The Architecture of Continents: The Development of the Continental Scheme * Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen  Southernization * Lynda Shaffer  Oceans of World History: Delineating Aquacentric Notions in the Global Past * Rainer F. Buschmann  Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities * Alison Games  Further Reading   CHAPTER 5 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL TIME   Introduction  Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History * Jerry H. Bentley  When Does World History Begin? (And Why Should We Care?) * David Northrup  History and Science after the Chronometric Revolution * David Christian  Worlding History * Daniel A. Segal  Further Reading   CHAPTER 6 WORLD HISTORY AS COMPARISON   Introduction  Global and Comparative History * Michael Adas  Frameworks for Global Historical Analysis * Patrick Manning  How to Write the History of the World * Lauren Benton  What Is World History Good For? * Kenneth Pomeranz  Further Reading   CHAPTER 7 DEBATING THE QUESTION OF WESTERN POWER   Introduction  Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global Conjuncture * Kenneth Pomeranz  The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity * Joseph M. Bryant  Capitalist Origins, the Advent of Modernity, and Coherent Explanation: A Response to Joseph M. Bryant * Jack A. Goldstone  Comparison in Global History * Prasannan Parthasarathi  Further Reading   CHAPTER 8 WORLD HISTORY, BIG HISTORY, AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT   Introduction  The Columbian Exchange * Alfred W. Crosby  Matter Matters: Towards a More \"Substantial\" Global History * Frank Uekotter  The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? * Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill  Big History: The Emergence of a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach * Fred Spier  Further Reading   CHAPTER 9 GLOBAL HISTORY AND GLOBALIZATION   Introduction  Global History: Approaches and New Directions * Maxine Berg  Comparing Global History to World History * Bruce Mazlish  Cycles of Silver: Globalization as Historical Process * Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giraldez  What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African Historian's Perspective * Frederick Cooper  Further Reading   CHAPTER 10 CRITIQUES AND QUESTIONS   Introduction  Global History and Critiques of Western Perspectives * Dominic Sachsenmaier  Much Ado about Something: The New Malaise of World History * Vinay Lal  Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History * Jerry H. Bentley  Beyond Blacks, Bondage, and Blame: Why a Multicentric World History Needs Africa * Joseph C. Miller  Women's and Men's World History? Not Yet * Judith P. Zinsser  Histories for a Less National Age * Kenneth Pomeranz  Further Reading   Teaching World History, Further Reading  Credits  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864901202263,"sku":"9780520289895","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520289895.jpg?v=1722273273","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-new-world-history-9780520289895","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}