Companion to World History

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A Companion to World History presents over 30 essays from an international group of historians that both identify continuing areas of contention, disagreement, and divergence in world and global history, and point to directions for further debate.* Features a diverse cast of contributors that include established world historians and emerging scholars* Explores a wide range of topics and themes, including and the practice of world history, key ideas of world historians, the teaching of world history and how it has drawn upon and challenged "traditional" teaching approaches, and global approaches to writing world history* Places an emphasis on non-Anglophone approaches to the topic* Considers issues of both scholarship and pedagogy on a transnational, interregional, and world/global scale Zusammenfassung A Companion to World History presents over 30 essays from an international group of historians that both identify continuing areas of contention, disagreement, and divergence in world and global history, and point to directions for further debate. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps, Figures, and Tables xNotes on Contributors xiEditor's Acknowledgments xviiiIntroduction: The Challenge of World History 1Douglas NorthropPART I TRAJECTORIES AND PRACTICES 131 World History: Departures and Variations 15Kenneth Pomeranz and Daniel A. Segal2 Why and How I Became a World Historian 32Dominic SachsenmaierResearching the world: techniques and methods 433 Becoming a World Historian: The State of Graduate Training in World History and Placement in the Academic World 45Heather Streets-Salter4 The World Is Your Archive? The Challenges of World History as a Field of Research 63Barbara Weinstein5 What Are the Units of World History? 79Adam McKeownTeaching the world: publics and pedagogies 956 Meetings of World History and Public History 97Leslie Witz7 Challenges of Teaching and Learning World History 111Robert B. Bain8 Teaching World History at the College Level 128Trevor GetzPART II CATEGORIES AND CONCEPTS 141Framing 1429 Environments, Ecologies, and Cultures across Space and Time 143I.G. Simmons10 Deep Pasts: Interconnections and Comparative History in the Ancient World 156Norman Yoffee11 Big History 171Fred Spier12 Global Scale Analysis in Human History 185Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall13 Region in Global History 201Paul A. Kramer14 Scales of a Local: The Place of Locality in a Globalizing World 213Anne GerritsenComparing 22715 Comparative History and the Challenge of the Grand Narrative 229Michael Adas16 The Science of Difference: Race, Indo-European Linguistics,and Eurasian Nomads 244Xinru Liu17 Projecting Power: Empires, Colonies, and World History 258Mrinalini Sinha18 The Body in/as World History 272Antoinette Burton19 Benchmarks of Globalization: The Global Condition, 1850-2010 285Charles Bright and Michael GeyerConnecting 30120 Networks, Interactions, and Connective History 303Felipe Fernández-Armesto with Benjamin Sacks21 Objects in Motion 321Scott C. Levi22 People in Motion 339Kerry Ward23 Religious Ideas in Motion 352Karin Vélez, Sebastian R. Prange, and Luke Clossey24 Diseases in Motion 365Martin S. Pernick25 Bullets in Motion 375Stephen MorilloPART III MANY GLOBES: WHO WRITES THE WORLD? 38926 The World from Oceania 391Damon Ieremia Salesa27 The World from China 405Weiwei Zhang28 Historicizing the World in Northeast Asia 418Jie-Hyun Lim29 Writing Global History in Africa 433David Simo30 Islamicate World Histories? 447Huri Islamo?lu31 The World from Latin America and the Periphe...

List of contents

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

Report

"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 , 1 August 2013)

"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 , 1 February 2014)

Product details

• Authors: D Northrop, Douglas Northrop, Douglas (EDT) Northrop, Douglas (University of Michigan Northrop
• Assisted by: Dougla Northrop (Editor), Douglas Northrop (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2012
• EAN: 9781444334180
• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3418-0
• No. of pages: 640
• Series: Blackwell Companions to World History; Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History; Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History; Blackwell Companions to World History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Weltgeschichte, Geschichte, History, world history, Methoden der Geschichtsforschung u. Geschichtsschreibung, Historical Methods & Historiography