Writing World History 1800-2000,9780199255573

Writing World History 1800-2000

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ISBN13: 9780199255573
ISBN10: 0199255571
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-08-28
Publisher(s): OUP/German Historical Institute London
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Summary

Writing World History offers a comparative look at the subject. It presents modern debates and analyses the traditions of world historiography in the USA, Europe, Africa, and Asia. This volume offers a critique of Eurocentrism and invites reflection on the political, ideological, and moral connotations of world history-writing.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Problems of Writing World History: Western and Non-Western Experiences, 1800--2000
1(44)
Benedikt Stuchtey
Eckhardt Fuchs
Part I. Mapping the Subject
45(90)
World History and Grand Narrative
47(20)
Jerry H. Bentley
The Deconstruction of Myths and Reconstruction of Metanarratives in Global Histories of Material Progress
67(24)
Patrick Karl O'brien
Confounding Metaphors, Inventions of the World: What is World History For?
91(44)
Arif Dirlik
Part II. Rethinking and Writing World History
135(218)
Out of Step with Time: United States Exceptionalism in an Age of Globalization
137(18)
Michael Adas
The Idea and Practice of World Historiography in France: The Annales Legacy
155(18)
Lutz Raphael
The Singularities of British Weltgeschichte
173(24)
Michael Bentley
Writing World History in Tsarist Russia and in the Soviet Union
197(16)
Thomas M. Bohn
World Power and World History: Writing the British Empire, 1885--1945
213(42)
Benedikt Stuchtey
Fitting Africa into World History: A Historiographical Exploration
255(16)
Andreas Eckert
Provincializing the West: World History from the Perspective of Indian History
271(20)
Vinay Lal
The `Middle Kingdom' Struggles to Survive: The Chinese Worldview in the Nineteenth Century
291(18)
Ricardo K. S. Mak
High Anxiety: World History as Japanese Self-Discovery
309(18)
Julia Adeney Thomas
The Opened and the Closed Country: Conflicting Views of Japan's Position in the World
327(26)
Sebastian Conrad
Notes on Contributors 353(6)
Index 359

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