World history : ideologies, structures, and identities

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World history : ideologies, structures, and identities

edited by Philip Pomper, Richard H. Elphick, and Richard T. Vann

Blackwell, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-271) and index

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World history is currently one of the most exciting areas of discussion amongst historians.

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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