Duara / Murthy / Sartori A Companion to Global Historical Thought

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-52536-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 536 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to World History

A Companion to Global Historical Thought provides an in-depth overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, across the world, directly addressing the issues of historical thought in a globalized context.
* Provides an overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, across the world, through essays written by a team of leading international scholars
* Complements the Companion to Western Historical Thought, placing non-Western perspectives on historiography at the center of the discussion
* Explores the different historical traditions that have shaped the discipline, and the challenges posed by modernity and globalization

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duara, Prasenjit

Murthy, Viren

Sartori, Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Part I Premodern Historical Thought 19
1 History as a Way of Remembering the Past: Early India21
Romila Thapar
2 Classical Chinese Historical Thought 34
Michael Puett
3 The Romance of the Middle Ages: Discovering the Past inEarly Modern Japan 47
Thomas Keirstead
4 Buddhist Worlds 63
Ian Harris
5 Premodern Arabic/Islamic Historical Writing 78
Tarif Khalidi
6 Ottoman Historical Thought 92
Gottfried Hagen and Ethan L. Menchinger
7 "Premodern" Pasts: South Asia 107
Rosalind O'Hanlon
8 History, Exile, and Counter-History: Jewish Perspectives122
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
Part II Historiographies 137
9 The Legacy of Greece and Rome 139
Freyja Cox Jensen
10 America and Global Historical Thought in the Early ModernPeriod 153
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
11 European Societies and their Norms in the Process ofExpansion: The Iberian Cases 169
Jean-Frédéric Schaub
12 The Global in Enlightenment Historical Thought184
Jennifer Pitts
13 Hegel, Marx, and World History 197
Andrew Sartori
14 The World of Modern Japanese Historiography: Tribulationsand Transformations in Historical Approaches 213
Curtis Anderson Gayle
15 Critical Theories of Modernity 228
Viren Murthy
16 On the Compatibility of Chinese and European History: AMarxist Approach 243
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
17 Modern Historiography in Southeast Asia: The Case ofThailand's Royal-Nationalist History 257
Thongchai Winichakul
18 Historical Thought in the Other America 269
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
19 Histories of History in South Asia 293
Prathama Banerjee
20 Modern Historiography - Arab World 308
Alexis Wick
21 The Burden of Peculiarity: History and Historical Thoughtin Africa 321
Andreas Eckert
Part III G lobal Histories and New Directions 335
22 Oceanic History 337
Michael Pearson
23 Environmental History and World History: Parallels,Intersections, and Tensions 351
Kenneth Pomeranz
24 Dependency Theory and World-Systems Analysis 369
Ravi Arvind Palat
25 Empires and Imperialism 384
Prasenjit Duara
26 Histories of Globalization(s) 399
Michael Lang
27 Comparative History and Its Critics: A Genealogy and aPossible Solution 412
George Steinmetz
28 Women, Gender, and the Global 437
Bonnie G. Smith
29 Indigenes and Settlers (Fourth World) 451
Lorenzo Veracini
30 History, Memory, Justice 466
Klaus Neumann
31 Beyond the Nation: Textbook Controversies andContestations in a Globalizing World 482
Hanna Schissler
Index 496

Über Autor(innen)

Prasenjit Duara is the Raffles Professor of Humanitiesand Director of the Asia Research Institute as well as Director ofResearch in Humanities and Social Sciences at National Universityof Singapore. He is the author of Culture, Power, and the State:Rural North China, 1900-1942 (1988), which won theFairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and theLevenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, USA.
Viren Murthy is Assistant Professor at the University ofWisconsin-Madison, USA, where he specializes in Modern Chinese andJapanese intellectual history. He is the author of The PoliticalPhilosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness(2011).
Andrew Sartori is Associate Professor of History at NewYork University, USA. He is co-editor of Global IntellectualHistory (with Samuel Moyn, 2013), the author of Bengal inGlobal Concept History (2008), and co-editor of From theColonial to the Postcolonial (with Dipesh Chakrabarty andRochona Majumdar, 2007). He is also co-editor of the journalCritical Historical Studies.