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A Companion to World History
Douglas Northrop (Edited by), D Northrop (Author)
9781444334180, Wiley
Hardback, published 14 September 2012
640 pages
25.6 x 18 x 3.6 cm, 1.134 kg
“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)
"All in all, A Companion to World History is a first-rate and cutting-edge contribution to the field of world history. It also contains a large and up-to-date bibliography. Serious scholars in the field will want to add it to their collection of basic reference books. It also belongs in every research library." (Buchbesprechungen 2016)
A COMPANION TOWORLD HISTORY "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" "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." A Companion to World History offers a comprehensive overview of the variety of approaches and practices utilized in the field of world and global history. This state-of-the-art collection of more than 30 insightful essays – including contributions from an international cast of leading world historians and emerging scholars in the field – identifies continuing areas of contention, disagreement, and divergence, while pointing out fruitful directions for further discussion and research. Themes and topics explored include the lineages and trajectories of world history, key ideas and methods employed by world historians, the teaching of world history and how it draws upon and challenges "traditional" approaches, and global approaches to writing world history. By considering these interwoven issues of scholarship and pedagogy from a transnational, interregional, and world/global scale, fresh insights are gained and new challenges posed. With its rich compendium of diverse viewpoints, A Companion to World History is an essential resource for the study of the world's past.
Choice
English Historical Review
List of Maps, Figures, and Tables x Notes on Contributors xi Editor’s Acknowledgments xviii Introduction: The Challenge of World History 1 PART I TRAJECTORIES AND PRACTICES 13 1 World History: Departures and Variations 15 2 Why and How I Became a World Historian 32 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 4 The World Is Your Archive? The Challenges of World History as a Field of Research 63 5 What Are the Units of World History? 79 Teaching the world: publics and pedagogies 95 6 Meetings of World History and Public History 97 7 Challenges of Teaching and Learning World History 111 8 Teaching World History at the College Level 128 PART II CATEGORIES AND CONCEPTS 141 Framing 142 9 Environments, Ecologies, and Cultures across Space and Time 143 10 Deep Pasts: Interconnections and Comparative History in the Ancient World 156 11 Big History 171 12 Global Scale Analysis in Human History 185 13 Region in Global History 201 14 Scales of a Local: The Place of Locality in a Globalizing World 213 Comparing 227 15 Comparative History and the Challenge of the Grand Narrative 229 16 The Science of Difference: Race, Indo-European Linguistics, and Eurasian Nomads 244 17 Projecting Power: Empires, Colonies, and World History 258 18 The Body in/as World History 272 19 Benchmarks of Globalization: The Global Condition, 1850–2010 285 Connecting 301 20 Networks, Interactions, and Connective History 303 21 Objects in Motion 321 22 People in Motion 339 23 Religious Ideas in Motion 352 24 Diseases in Motion 365 25 Bullets in Motion 375 PART III MANY GLOBES: WHO WRITES THE WORLD? 389 26 The World from Oceania 391 27 The World from China 405 28 Historicizing the World in Northeast Asia 418 29 Writing Global History in Africa 433 30 Islamicate World Histories? 447 31 The World from Latin America and the Peripheries 464 32 (Re)Writing World Histories in Europe 478 33 Other Globes: Shifting Optics on the World 497 Bibliography 527 Index 576
Douglas Northrop
Kenneth Pomeranz and Daniel A. Segal
Dominic Sachsenmaier
Heather Streets-Salter
Barbara Weinstein
Adam McKeown
Leslie Witz
Robert B. Bain
Trevor Getz
I.G. Simmons
Norman Yoffee
Fred Spier
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall
Paul A. Kramer
Anne Gerritsen
Michael Adas
Xinru Liu
Mrinalini Sinha
Antoinette Burton
Charles Bright and Michael Geyer
Felipe Fernández-Armesto with Benjamin Sacks
Scott C. Levi
Kerry Ward
Karin Vélez, Sebastian R. Prange, and Luke Clossey
Martin S. Pernick
Stephen Morillo
Damon Ieremia Salesa
Weiwei Zhang
Jie-Hyun Lim
David Simo
Huri Islamoğlu
Eduardo Devés-Valdés
Katja Naumann
Douglas Northrop
Subject Areas: History [HB]
