21st-Century Narratives of World History: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxiii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 ‘Grand Narrative’ and ‘New’ World Histories: Their Historical Challenges and Contributions in Western Scholarship (R. Charles Weller)....Pages 3-33 ‘Western’ and ‘White Civilization’: White Nationalism and Eurocentrism at the Crossroads (R. Charles Weller)....Pages 35-80 Front Matter ....Pages 81-81 Periodization in World History: Challenges and Opportunities (Peter N. Stearns)....Pages 83-109 “Complexity, Energy and Information in Big History and Human History” (David Christian)....Pages 111-142 History Beyond Humanity: Between ‘Big’ and ‘Deep’ History (Felipe Fernández-Armesto)....Pages 143-167 The Human System: An Introduction (Patrick Manning)....Pages 169-196 Social and Cultural World History (Merry Wiesner-Hanks)....Pages 197-229 World History as a Single Story (Tamim Ansary)....Pages 231-263 Western, Russian, and Islamic Culture in World Civilizational Perspective (Tursin Hafizuhli Gabitov)....Pages 265-289 Going Global: Thematic Explorations in World History (Candice Goucher)....Pages 291-315 Front Matter ....Pages 317-319 World History and Perspectivity: Between Necessity and Opportunity (Gotelind Müller)....Pages 321-328 World Histories in Conversation (Leonid Trofimov)....Pages 329-337 Eight World Historians (Diego Olstein)....Pages 339-346 Back Matter ....Pages 347-412