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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795948203321

Titolo

Architects of world history : researching the global past / / edited by Kenneth R. Curtis and Jerry H. Bentley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014

2014

ISBN

1-118-29482-3

1-118-29483-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages)

Classificazione

201.16

907.2/022

Altri autori (Persone)

BentleyJerry H. <1949-2012.>

CurtisKenneth Robert

Disciplina

907.2/022

Soggetti

Historians

Historiography - Methodology

World history - Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Architects of World History / Kenneth R. Curtis -- En Route to World Environmental History / J.R. McNeill -- Gender Intersections / Merry Wiesner-Hanks -- No Great Divergence : Reaching World History Through East Asian Studies / Kenneth Pomeranz -- Cultural and Religious Exchanges / Dominic Sachsenmaier -- Law and World History / Lauren Benton -- Africa in the World : From National Histories to Global Connections / Kerry Ward -- Big History / David Christian -- In Search of a Global Cultural History / Jerry Bentley with Karen Jolly.

Sommario/riassunto

"Architects of World History presents an innovative collection of original essays by leading scholars associated with World History, exploring through intellectual autobiography the ideas, challenges, and inspirations that are shaping the field. Features original, accessible contributions from pioneering scholars in the field. Offers insights into the process of developing a workable world history research topic and the experience of professional life as a world historian. Points to methodological challenges; the scholar's current research agenda in relation to the development of world history; and future directions



anticipated for key areas within world history"--