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Presents overviews and approaches to the problems of world history. This book offers radical postmodern and postcolonial critiques of holism, identity, and Western scientific history in favor of a different kind of universalism. It is suitable for those interested in teaching history courses attuned to the global era in which we live.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction: The Theory and Practice of World History 1
Philip Pomper

Part 1 Mapping the Field

1 The Changing Shape of World History 21
William H. McNeill

2 Crossing Boundaries: Ecumenical, World, and Global History 41
Bruce Mazlish

3 Periodizing World History 53
William A. Green

Part II Rethinking Structure, Agency, and Ideology

4 The World-System Perspective in the Construction of Economic History 69
Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod

5 Bringing Ideas and Agency Back In: Representation and the Comparative Approach to World History 81
Michael Adas

6 World Histories and the Construction of Collective Identities 105
S. N. Eisenstadt

Part II Unbinding Identities

8 History’s Forgotten Doubles 159
Ashis Nandy

9 Identify in World History: A Postmodern Perspective 179
Lewis D. Wurgaft

Part IV Charting Trajectories

10 World History, Cultural Relativism, and the Global Future 217
Theodore H. Von Laue

Notes 235

Index 272

World History

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 1 July 1998
      ISBN-13 9780631208983
      978-0631208983
      ISBN-10 0631208984
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      History: theory and methods

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Presents overviews and approaches to the problems of world history. This book offers radical postmodern and postcolonial critiques of holism, identity, and Western scientific history in favor of a different kind of universalism. It is suitable for those interested in teaching history courses attuned to the global era in which we live.

      Table of Contents

      List of Contributors vii

      Acknowledgements ix

      Introduction: The Theory and Practice of World History 1
      Philip Pomper

      Part 1 Mapping the Field

      1 The Changing Shape of World History 21
      William H. McNeill

      2 Crossing Boundaries: Ecumenical, World, and Global History 41
      Bruce Mazlish

      3 Periodizing World History 53
      William A. Green

      Part II Rethinking Structure, Agency, and Ideology

      4 The World-System Perspective in the Construction of Economic History 69
      Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod

      5 Bringing Ideas and Agency Back In: Representation and the Comparative Approach to World History 81
      Michael Adas

      6 World Histories and the Construction of Collective Identities 105
      S. N. Eisenstadt

      Part II Unbinding Identities

      8 History’s Forgotten Doubles 159
      Ashis Nandy

      9 Identify in World History: A Postmodern Perspective 179
      Lewis D. Wurgaft

      Part IV Charting Trajectories

      10 World History, Cultural Relativism, and the Global Future 217
      Theodore H. Von Laue

      Notes 235

      Index 272

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