- 222 pages
- English
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About this book
What is history – a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined in contrast to other forms of historical consciousness?
In this volume, Peter Burke, a prominent "Western" historian, offers ten hypotheses that attempt to constitute specifically "Western Historical Thinking." Scholars from Asia and Africa comment on his position in the light of their own ideas of the sense and meaning of historical thinking. The volume is rounded off by Peter Burke's comments on the questions and issues raised by the authors and his suggestions for the way forward towards a common ground for intercultural communication.
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Table of contents
- Western Historical Thinking
- Contents
- Preface to the Series
- Introduction
- Western Historical Thinking in aGlobal Perspective – 10 Theses
- 1. General CommentsPerspectives in Historical Anthropology
- Searching for Common Principles
- The Coherence of the West
- 2. The Peculiarity of the WestToward an Archaeology ofHistorical Thinking
- Trauma and Suffering
- Western Deep Culture and WesternHistorical Thinking
- What is Uniquely Western about theHistoriography of the West in Contrastto that of China?
- The Westernization of World History
- 3. The Perspective of the OthersWestern Historical Thinking froman Arabian Perspective
- Cognitive Historiography andNormative Historiography
- Western Uniqueness?
- Historical Programs
- 4. The Difference of the OthersReflections onChinese Historical Thinking
- Must History Follow Rational Patternsof Interpretation?
- Some Reflections onEarly Indian Historical Thinking
- Reply
- Notes on Contributers
- Index