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Index
Cover
Series Page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Maps, Figures, and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Editor’s Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: The Challenge of World History
PART I: Trajectories and Practices
CHAPTER ONE: World History
From Disciplinary Exclusion to Limited Acceptance, circa Late 1800s to 1990
Influences, Resources, and Canon Formation, circa Late 1980s to 2011
Variations Now
Concluding Reflections
CHAPTER TWO: Why and How I Became a World Historian
First Steps
A Growing Identification with Global History and World History
Engaged in a Field
Researching the world: techniques and methods
CHAPTER THREE: Becoming a World Historian
Graduate Programs in World History
The Structure of Graduate Programs in World History
Placement: Where Do Graduate Students Trained in World History Find Jobs?
Conclusions
Appendix: World History Comprehensive Exam Reading List (Washington State University, 2010)
CHAPTER FOUR: The World Is Your Archive?
CHAPTER FIVE: What Are the Units of World History?
Comparison and Connection
Zones and Systems
Globalization
Humanity
Teaching the world: publics and pedagogies
CHAPTER SIX: Meetings of World History and Public History
Defending History
Revisiting Public History
Two “Backward Hamlets”
Conclusion
CHAPTER SEVEN: Challenges of Teaching and Learning World History
A Teaching Problem: Figuring Out the Story and Connections
Standards in World History
Figuring Out How Students See the Story and Make Connections
Meeting the Challenges
CHAPTER EIGHT: Teaching World History at the College Level
Snapshot 1: World History Survey, University of New Orleans, 2000
Snapshot 2: World History for Graduate Students, San Francisco State University, 2006
Snapshot 3: Twentieth-Century World History Survey, University of Stellenbosch, 2008
Snapshot 4: The World and the West Seminar, San Francisco State University, 2010
World History as a Work in Progress
PART II: Categories and Concepts
Framing
CHAPTER NINE: Environments, Ecologies, and Cultures across Space and Time
Harnessing Energy
Scales of Alteration
Nature–Culture Interactions
CHAPTER TEN: Deep Pasts
The Meaning and Mechanisms of Interconnections
Comparative History of the Ancient World
The Verticality of Global History in the Ancient World
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Big History
What Is Big History?
Why Study Big History?
How Old Is Big History?
When Did Academic Big History Emerge?
Who Is Doing Big History Today?
Different Approaches to Big History
Big History and Religious Views
Big History Research
The Future of Big History: Opportunities and Constraints
CHAPTER TWELVE: Global Scale Analysis in Human History
Core/Periphery Hierarchy
Spatial Boundaries of World-Systems
World-System Cycles: Rise and Fall, and Pulsations
Modes of Accumulation
Patterns and Causes of Social Evolution
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Region in Global History
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Scales of a Local
A “Globalizing” World?
Conceptualizing the Local and the Global
Historicizing the Local and the Global
Local Case Studies: Ji’an and Jingdezhen
Comparing
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Comparative History and the Challenge of the Grand Narrative
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Science of Difference
From William Jones to Max Müller
The Bible and Darwin
The Failure of Race Science
Indo-Europeans/Aryans: Barbarians and Nomads
Aryans and Brahmans
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Projecting Power
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Body in/as World History
Acts of Relegation, Acts of Repositioning
Conclusion: The Body as World System?
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Benchmarks of Globalization
What a History of the Present Can Do
The Time of the Global
Global Actors and Spaces of Action
Reframing the Global Condition
Connecting
CHAPTER TWENTY: Networks, Interactions, and Connective History
Material Culture
The Stranger-Effect
Exploration
Peaceful Migration
War and Empire
Religion
Trade: Land Routes
Trade: Sea Routes
Globalization
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Objects in Motion
The Silk Road
The Mongol World Empire
The Age of Exploration
The Industrial Age
Conclusion
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: People in Motion
Scale One, the Cosmos: Big History and Life on Earth
Scale Two, the Earth: Peopling the World
Scale Three, Modern Human Society: Globalizing Encounters and Migrations, 1500–1900
Scale Four, Microhistory and Biography: Individual Lifespans and Journeys
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Religious Ideas in Motion
The Call for a Global Frame
Space and Beliefs in Motion
Networks of Carriers
Negotiations and Reverberations
New Spheres for Religion
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Diseases in Motion
Introduction: Germs Don’t Travel Alone
Imported Epidemics and the Decimation of Native Americans
Moving Environments and Moving Germs: Malaria and Cholera
Diseases That Traveled without New Germs
Conclusion
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Bullets in Motion
Audiences
Issues: Globalization
Issues: Problems of Analysis
Themes: Global Patterns of War
Themes: War and Society
Themes: War and Culture
PART III: Many Globes
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The World from Oceania
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: The World from China
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Historicizing the World in Northeast Asia
The Configuration of the National and the Global
From World History to National History
Overcoming Western History
Overcome by Western History
Decentering World History
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Writing Global History in Africa
Conversion, the Emergence of a New Cosmology and Self-Rewriting
Defining Africa’s Position in the World as Permanent Preoccupation
What the World Has Done to Africa
What Africa Has Done in the World
CHAPTER THIRTY: Islamicate World Histories?
In the Wake of Defeat and Humiliation: Tortuous Dialogues with Orientalist Visions
Europe: Coveted Object of Desire, and of Alienation
Global Capitalism, Contested Western Hegemony, and New World Historical Visions
Can We Write World Histories That Are Genuinely “World Histories”?
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: The World from Latin America and the Peripheries
Statement of the Problem
Proto-history: The Difference of the Partialities with Respect to the Center
History: Since the Formation of a Global Center and Periphery
Conclusion
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: (Re)Writing World Histories in Europe
Toward a New Consensus
Carving Out an Institutional Home
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Other Globes
Global Economics: International Trade and Business
Global Politics: International Relations and Comparative Politics
Global Anthropology: Ethnographies of the World
Global Texts: Comparative Literature and Worlds of Translation
Global Art: Aesthetics across Cultures
Many Globes: Seeing a World
Bibliography
Index
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