21st-Century Narratives of World History
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21st-Century Narratives of World History

Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

  1. 428 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

21st-Century Narratives of World History

Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

About this book

This book makes a unique and timely contribution to world/global historical studies and related fields. It places essential world historical frameworks by top scholars in the field today in clear, direct relation to and conversation with one other, offering them opportunity to enrich, elucidate and, at times, challenge one another. It thereby aims to: (1) offer world historians opportunity to critically reflect upon and refine their essential interpretational frameworks, (2) facilitate more effective and nuanced teaching and learning in and beyond the classroom, (3) provide accessible world historical contexts for specialized areas of historical as well as other fields of research in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, and (4) promote comparative historiographical critique which (a) helps identify continuing research questions for the field of world history in particular, as well as (b) further global peace and dialogue in relation to varying views of our ever-increasingly interconnected, interdependent, multicultural, and globalized world and its shared though diverse and sometimes contested history.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319620770
eBook ISBN
9783319620787
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historiography
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. 21st-Century Narratives of World History
  2. Part I Historical Background
  3. Part I Historical Background
  4. Chapter 1 ‘Grand Narrative’ and ‘New’ World Histories: Their Historical Challenges and Contributions in Western Scholarship
  5. Chapter 2 ‘Western’ and ‘White Civilization’: White Nationalism and Eurocentrism at the Crossroads
  6. Part II 21st-Century Narratives of World History
  7. Chapter 3 Periodization in World History: Challenges and Opportunities
  8. Chapter 4 “Complexity, Energy and Information in Big History and Human History”
  9. Chapter 5 History Beyond Humanity: Between ‘Big’ and ‘Deep’ History
  10. Chapter 6 The Human System: An Introduction
  11. Chapter 7 Social and Cultural World History
  12. Chapter 8 World History as a Single Story
  13. Chapter 9 Western, Russian, and Islamic Culture in World Civilizational Perspective
  14. Chapter 10 Going Global: Thematic Explorations in World History
  15. Part III Comparative Historiographical Critiques
  16. Chapter 11 World History and Perspectivity: Between Necessity and Opportunity
  17. Chapter 12 World Histories in Conversation
  18. Chapter 13 Eight World Historians
  19. Concluding Reflections: A Way Forward: Grand Narrative World History as Specialization?
  20. Appendix A: Other 21st-Century Narratives of World History from Around the Globe
  21. Appendix B: The Politics of Difference in World Historical Study
  22. Index

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