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21st-century narratives of world history : global and multidisciplinary perspectives / R. Charles Weller, editor

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Twenty-first century narratives of world history
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxiii, 412 pages)
Additional Creators
Weller, R. Charles, 1963-
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Contents
'Grand Narrative' and 'New' World Histories: Their Historical Challenges and Contributions in Western Scholarship / R. Charles Weller -- 'Western' and 'White Civilization': White Nationalism and Eurocentrism at the Crossroads / R. Charles Weller -- Periodization in World History: Challenges and Opportunities / Peter N. Stearns -- "Complexity, Energy and Information in Big History and Human History" / David Christian -- History Beyond Humanity: Between 'Big' and 'Deep' History / Felipe Fernández-Armesto -- The Human System: An Introduction / Patrick Manning -- Social and Cultural World History / Merry Wiesner-Hanks -- World History as a Single Story / Tamim Ansary -- Western, Russian, and Islamic Culture in World Civilizational Perspective / Tursin Hafizuhli Gabitov -- Going Global: Thematic Explorations in World History / Candice Goucher -- World History and Perspectivity: Between Necessity and Opportunity / Gotelind Müller -- World Histories in Conversation / Leonid Trofimov -- Eight World Historians / Diego Olstein -- Concluding Reflections: A Way Forward: Grand Narrative World History as Specialization? -- Appendix A: Other 21st-Century Narratives of World History from Around the Globe -- Appendix B: The Politics of Difference in World Historical Study.
Summary
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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9783319620787 (electronic bk.)
3319620789 (electronic bk.)
9783319620770 (hbk.)
3319620770 (hbk.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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