The new world history : a field guide for teachers and researchers

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The new world history : a field guide for teachers and researchers

edited by Ross E. Dunn, Laura J. Mitchell, and Kerry Ward

(The California world history library, 23)

University of California Press, 2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field. The forty-four articles in this book take stock of the history, evolving literature, and current trajectories of new world history. These essays, together with the editors' introductions to thematic chapters, encourage educators and students to reflect critically on the development of the field and to explore concepts, approaches, and insights valuable to their own work. The selections are organized in ten chapters that survey the history of the movement, the seminal ideas of founding thinkers and today's practitioners, changing concepts of world historical space and time, comparative methods, environmental history, the "big history" movement, globalization, debates over the meaning of Western power, and ongoing questions about the intellectual premises and assumptions that have shaped the field.

Table of Contents

Preface 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

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  • NCID
    BB22715988
  • ISBN
    • 9780520289895
  • LCCN
    2016020076
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oakland, Calif.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 640 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
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