Companion to Global Historical Thought

Informationen zum Autor Prasenjit Duara is the Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of the Asia Research institute as well as Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (1988), which won the Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, USA. Viren Murthy is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he specializes in Modern Chinese and Japanese intellectual history. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (2011). Andrew Sartori is Associate Professor of History at New york University, USA. He is co-editor of Global Intellectual History (with Samuel Moyn, 2013), the author of Bengal in Global Concept History (2008), and co-editor of From the Colonial to the Postcolonial (with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Rochona Majumdar, 2007). He is also co-editor of the journal Critical Historical Studies. Klappentext A Companion to Global Historical Thought provides an in-depth overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, across the world, directly addressing the issues of historical thought in a globalized context.* Provides an overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, across the world, through essays written by a team of leading international scholars* Complements the Companion to Western Historical Thought, placing non-Western perspectives on historiography at the center of the discussion* Explores the different historical traditions that have shaped the discipline, and the challenges posed by modernity and globalization Zusammenfassung A Companion to Global Historical Thought provides an in-depth overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, across the world, directly addressing the issues of historical thought in a globalized context.* Provides an overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, across the world, through essays written by a team of leading international scholars* Complements the Companion to Western Historical Thought, placing non-Western perspectives on historiography at the center of the discussion* Explores the different historical traditions that have shaped the discipline, and the challenges posed by modernity and globalization Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Part I Premodern Historical Thought 191 History as a Way of Remembering the Past: Early India 21Romila Thapar2 Classical Chinese Historical Thought 34Michael Puett3 The Romance of the Middle Ages: Discovering the Past in Early Modern Japan 47Thomas Keirstead4 Buddhist Worlds 63Ian Harris5 Premodern Arabic/Islamic Historical Writing 78Tarif Khalidi6 Ottoman Historical Thought 92Gottfried Hagen and Ethan L. Menchinger7 "Premodern" Pasts: South Asia 107Rosalind O'Hanlon8 History, Exile, and Counter-History: Jewish Perspectives 122Amnon Raz-KrakotzkinPart II Historiographies 1379 The Legacy of Greece and Rome 139Freyja Cox Jensen10 America and Global Historical Thought in the Early Modern Period 153Karen Ordahl Kupperman11 European Societies and their Norms in the Process of Expansion: The Iberian Cases 169Jean-Frédéric Schaub12 The Global in Enlightenment Historical Thought 184Jennifer Pitts13 Hegel, Marx, and World History 197Andrew Sartori14 The World of Modern Japanese Historiography: Tribulations and Transformations in Historical Approaches 213Curtis Anderson Gayle15 Critical Theories of Modernity 228Viren Murthy16 On the Compatibility of Chinese and European History: A Marxist Approach 243Susanne We...

List of contents

Notes on Contributors viii
 
Introduction 1
 
Part I Premodern Historical Thought 19
 
1 History as a Way of Remembering the Past: Early India 21
Romila Thapar
 
2 Classical Chinese Historical Thought 34
Michael Puett
 
3 The Romance of the Middle Ages: Discovering the Past in Early Modern Japan 47
Thomas Keirstead
 
4 Buddhist Worlds 63
Ian Harris
 
5 Premodern Arabic/Islamic Historical Writing 78
Tarif Khalidi
 
6 Ottoman Historical Thought 92
Gottfried Hagen and Ethan L. Menchinger
 
7 "Premodern" Pasts: South Asia 107
Rosalind O'Hanlon
 
8 History, Exile, and Counter-History: Jewish Perspectives 122
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
 
Part II Historiographies 137
 
9 The Legacy of Greece and Rome 139
Freyja Cox Jensen
 
10 America and Global Historical Thought in the Early Modern Period 153
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
 
11 European Societies and their Norms in the Process of Expansion: The Iberian Cases 169
Jean-Frédéric Schaub
 
12 The Global in Enlightenment Historical Thought 184
Jennifer Pitts
 
13 Hegel, Marx, and World History 197
Andrew Sartori
 
14 The World of Modern Japanese Historiography: Tribulations and Transformations in Historical Approaches 213
Curtis Anderson Gayle
 
15 Critical Theories of Modernity 228
Viren Murthy
 
16 On the Compatibility of Chinese and European History: A Marxist Approach 243
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
 
17 Modern Historiography in Southeast Asia: The Case of Thailand's Royal-Nationalist History 257
Thongchai Winichakul
 
18 Historical Thought in the Other America 269
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
 

19 Histories of History in South Asia 293
Prathama Banerjee
 
20 Modern Historiography - Arab World 308
Alexis Wick
 
21 The Burden of Peculiarity: History and Historical Thought in Africa 321
Andreas Eckert
 
Part III G lobal Histories and New Directions 335
 
22 Oceanic History 337
Michael Pearson
 
23 Environmental History and World History: Parallels, Intersections, and Tensions 351
Kenneth Pomeranz
 
24 Dependency Theory and World-Systems Analysis 369
Ravi Arvind Palat
 
25 Empires and Imperialism 384
Prasenjit Duara
 
26 Histories of Globalization(s) 399
Michael Lang
 
27 Comparative History and Its Critics: A Genealogy and a Possible Solution 412
George Steinmetz
 
28 Women, Gender, and the Global 437
Bonnie G. Smith
 
29 Indigenes and Settlers (Fourth World) 451
Lorenzo Veracini
 
30 History, Memory, Justice 466
Klaus Neumann
 
31 Beyond the Nation: Textbook Controversies and Contestations in a Globalizing World 482
Hanna Schissler
 
Index 496

About the author

Prasenjit Duara is the Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of the Asia Research Institute as well as Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at National University of Singapore. He is the author of Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (1988), which won the Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, USA.

Viren Murthy is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he specializes in Modern Chinese and Japanese intellectual history. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (2011).

Andrew Sartori is Associate Professor of History at New York University, USA. He is co-editor of Global Intellectual History (with Samuel Moyn, 2013), the author of Bengal in Global Concept History (2008), and co-editor of From the Colonial to the Postcolonial (with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Rochona Majumdar, 2007). He is also co-editor of the journal Critical Historical Studies.

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• Authors: P Duara, Prasenji Duara, Prasenjit Duara, Prasenjit Murthy Duara, Prasenjit Sartori Duara, Vire Murthy, Viren Murthy, Andrew Sartori
• Assisted by: Prasenjit Duara (Editor), Viren Murthy (Editor), Andrew Sartori (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2014
• EAN: 9780470658994
• ISBN: 978-0-470-65899-4
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: Blackwell Companions to World History; Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History; WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO; Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History; WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO; Blackwell Companions to World History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Weltgeschichte, Geschichte, History, world history, Methoden der Geschichtsforschung u. Geschichtsschreibung, Historical Methods & Historiography