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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 This volume brings together 25 defining texts in global history. These pieces cover approaches to the subject from antiquity to the present century and, taken together, show the development of the discipline, providing a solid historiographical, theoretical and methodological overview that will be invaluable for students. The collection gives a unique sense of how, at different times, in different cultural circumstances, students of the past have approached the problems of encompassing the world in a single narrative or theory. This is a reader with an implicit story to unfold. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tracks how a global understanding of history originated in prophetic writings, how the "Renaissance discovery of the world" multiplied the opportunities for historians to think about history globally, how scientific investigations of change came to exert influence and inspire new thinking among global historians, how "culture wars" ensued between advocates of scientistic and culturalist models and how changing contexts in the 20th century produced new thematic approaches to the world as a whole. Each part is introduced, setting it in context and explaining the impact of its subject matter on the discipline, as well as the relations between the texts and their place in the overall development of global history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: PROPHECY AND PROVIDENTIALISM
- The Book of Daniel
- Seven Books Against the Pagans
- Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future
- The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
- Part Two: FROM PROVIDENCE TO PROGRESS
- Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man
- Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View
- Lectures on the Philosophy of World History
- Manifesto of the Communist Party [1848]
- Universal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations and the Greeks [1884]
- Part Three: THE SCIENTIFIC TEMPTATION
- “Progress: Its Law and Cause” [1886]
- The Age of the Gods [1928]
- “World History in Context” [2003]
- “Does Culture Evolve?” [1994]
- “How to be Human: A Historical Approach” [2010]
- “Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History” [2012]
- Part Four: COMPARATIVE AND CONTEXTUAL APPROACHES
- “‘To Civility and Man’s Use’: History, Culture, and Nature” [1998]
- “Social History and World History from Daily Life to Patterns of Change” [2007]
- “Comparing Global History to World History” [1998]
- Part Five: THE EUROCENTRISM CONTROVERSIES
- “My View of History”
- “The Clash of Civilizations” [1993]
- Indonesian Trade and Society: Essays in Asian Social and Economic History [1967]
- “A Defence of World History” [1982]
- ENVOI: THE NEW NARRATIVES
- “Globalization and the Great Convergence: Rethinking World History in the Long Term” [2008]
- Bibliography
- Notes on the Authors
- Index
- Copyright