{"id":34965,"date":"2023-03-23T18:19:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=34965"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:20:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:20:12","slug":"approaches-to-global-history-to-see-the-world-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=34965","title":{"rendered":"Approaches to Global History: To See the World Whole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Edited by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 \u201cRenaissance discovery of the world\u201d 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 \u201cculture wars\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction

Part I: Prophecy and Providentialism<\/strong>

1. The Book of Daniel, Chapters 7-12
2. Paulus Orosius, Seven Books Against the Pagans, <\/em>Dedication, From Book I, Section 1 and from Books II (Section 1), V (Sections 1-2) and VII (Sections 1-3)
3. M. Reeves, Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future, <\/em>From Chapter 1, \u201cJoachim and the Meaning of History\u201d
4. From Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History<\/em>

Part II: From Providence to Progress<\/strong>

5. Johann Gottfried Herder, Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man, <\/em>Book XV, Chapters 1-5
6. Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View, On History<\/em> [1784]
7. G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, <\/em>\u201cThe Course of the World’s History,\u201d vol. iii, sections 60-99.
8. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party <\/em>[1848], Chapter 1
9. Leopold von Ranke, Universal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations and the Greeks <\/em>[1884], Preface

Part III: The Scientific Temptation<\/strong>

10. Herbert Spencer, \u201cProgress: Its Law and Consequences\u201d [1886], Chapter 1
11. Christopher Dawson, The Age of the Gods<\/em> [1928], \u201cIntroduction\u201d
12. David Christian, \u201cWorld History in Context\u201d [2003]
13. Richard Lewontin and Joseph Fraccia, \u201cDoes Culture Evolve?\u201d [1994]
14. Felipe Fern\u00e1ndez-Armesto, \u201cHow to be Human: A Historical Approach\u201d [2010]
15. Daniel Lord Smail, \u201cNeuroscience and the Dialectics of History\u201d [2012]

Part IV: Comparative and Contextual Approaches<\/strong>

16. Ian G. Simmons, ‘\u201cTo Civility and Man\u00b4s Use\u201d: History, Culture, and Nature’ [1998]
17. Jared M.Diamond, \u201cColonization Cycles in Man and Beast\u201d [1977]
18. Kenneth Pomeranz, \u201cSocial History and World History from Daily Life to Patterns of Change\u201d [2007]
19. Bruce Mazlish, \u201cComparing Global History to World History\u201d [1998]

Part V: The Eurocentrism Controversies<\/strong>

20. Arnold J. Toynbee, \u201cMy View of History\u201d [1948]
21. Samuel Huntington,. \u201cThe Clash of Civilizations\u201d [1993]
22. J.C. van Leur, Indonesian Trade and Society: Essays in Asian Social and Economic History<\/em> [1967], Chapter 1: \u201cOn Methodology and Theory\u201d
23. W.H. McNeill, \u201cA Defence of World History\u201d [1982]

Envoi: The New Narratives<\/strong>

24. David Christian, \u201cThe Return of Universal History\u201d [2010]
25. David Northrup, \u201cGlobalization and the Great Convergence: Rethinking World History in the Long Term\u201d [2008]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Published 12 Jan 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Format Paperback<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edition 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extent   376<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 9781474286633<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imprint Bloomsbury Academic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dimensions 244 x 169 mm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/approaches-to-global-history-9781474286633\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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