The Prospect Of Global History

Author : James Belich,John Darwin,Margret Frenz,Chris Wickham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198732259

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The Prospect of Global History by James Belich,John Darwin,Margret Frenz,Chris Wickham Pdf

The Prospect of Global History offers a new approach to the study of history, looking at the subject across a greater chronological range and seeking perspectives from sources beyond conventional European narratives.

Author : Noel Cowen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745666068

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Global History by Noel Cowen Pdf

This short book offers a clear and engaging introduction to the history of humankind, from the earliest movements of people to the contemporary epoch of globalization. Cowen traces this complex history in a manner which offers both a compelling narrative and an analytical and comparative treatment. Drawing on a new perspective on global history, he traces the intersection of change in economics, politics and human beliefs, examining the formation, enlargement and limits of human societies. Global History shows how much of human history encompasses three intersecting forces - trading networks, expanding political empires and crusading creeds. Abandoning the limits of a Eurocentric view of the world, the book offers a number of fresh insights. Its periodization embraces movement across continents and across the millennia. The indigenous American civilizations are included, for instance. The book also ranges over the early civilizations of China and Europe as well as the Russian and Islamic worlds. Modern American and Japanese civilizations are, in addition, a focus for attention. The author examines national and regional histories in relation to wider themes, sequences and global tendencies. In conclusion, he seeks to address the question of the extent to which a global society is beginning to crystallize.

Author : Jane E. Buikstra,Charlotte Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195389807

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The Global History of Paleopathology by Jane E. Buikstra,Charlotte Roberts Pdf

The first comprehensive global history of the discipline of paleopathology

Author : Vanessa Ogle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674737020

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The Global Transformation of Time by Vanessa Ogle Pdf

As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.

Author : Sebastian Conrad
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691178196

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What Is Global History? by Sebastian Conrad Pdf

The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global history Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovative field in history—one that takes the connectedness of the world as its point of departure, and that poses a fundamental challenge to the premises and methods of history as we know it. What Is Global History? provides a comprehensive overview of this exciting new approach to history. The book addresses some of the biggest questions the discipline will face in the twenty-first century: How does global history differ from other interpretations of world history? How do we write a global history that is not Eurocentric yet does not fall into the trap of creating new centrisms? How can historians compare different societies and establish compatibility across space? What are the politics of global history? This in-depth and accessible book also explores the limits of the new paradigm and even its dangers, the question of whom global history should be written for, and much more. Written by a leading expert in the field, What Is Global History? shows how, by understanding the world's past as an integrated whole, historians can remap the terrain of their discipline for our globalized present.

Author : Jürgen Osterhammel,Niels P. Petersson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691133959

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Globalization by Jürgen Osterhammel,Niels P. Petersson Pdf

In this work, Jurgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson make the case that globalization is not so new, after all. Arguing that the world did not turn "global" overnight, the book traces the emergence of globalization over the past seven or eight centuries. In fact, the authors write, the phenomenon can be traced back to early modern large-scale trading, for example, the silk trade between China and the Mediterranean region, the shipping routes between the Arabian Peninsula and India, and the more frequently travelled caravan routes of the Near East and North Africa, all conduits for people, goods, coins, artwork, and ideas.

Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199596652

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Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen Pdf

Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.

Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199832613

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The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton Pdf

In this new history, David Edgerton invites us to rethink how technology is used. For instance, horses contributed more to Nazi conquests than the V2. In influence, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad matches Bill Gates. And corrugated iron is not dead yet.

Author : Manuel Perez-Garcia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811578656

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Global History with Chinese Characteristics by Manuel Perez-Garcia Pdf

This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One Belt, One Road” in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese Characteristics analyses the feeble state capacity of Qing China questioning the so-called “High Qing” (shèng qīng 盛清) era’s economic prosperity as the political system was set into a “power paradox” or “supremacy dilemma”. This is a new thesis introduced by the author demonstrating that interventionist states entail weak governance. Macao and Marseille as a new case study aims to compare Mediterranean and South China markets to provide new insights into both modern eras’ rising trade networks, non-official institutions and interventionist impulses of autocratic states such as China’s Qing and Spain’s Bourbon empires.

Author : Bruce Mazlish,Ralph Buultjens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0974369233

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Conceptualizing Global History by Bruce Mazlish,Ralph Buultjens Pdf

Author : Julian Baggini
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783782291

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How the World Thinks by Julian Baggini Pdf

*SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'There to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or less the same time. These early philosophies have had a profound impact on the development of distinctive cultures in different parts of the world. What we call 'philosophy' in the West is not even half the story. Julian Baggini sets out to expand our horizons in How the World Thinks, exploring the philosophies of Japan, India, China and the Muslim world, as well as the lesser-known oral traditions of Africa and Australia's first peoples. Interviewing thinkers from around the globe, Baggini asks questions such as: why is the West is more individualistic than the East? What makes secularism a less powerful force in the Islamic world than in Europe? And how has China resisted pressures for greater political freedom? Offering deep insights into how different regions operate, and paying as much attention to commonalities as to differences, Baggini shows that by gaining greater knowledge of how others think we take the first step to a greater understanding of ourselves.

Author : Olwen H. Hufton
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004230293

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The Prospect Before Her: 1500-1800 by Olwen H. Hufton Pdf

History of women in western Europe during the years 1500 to 1800, discussing what females of various stations could expect at every stage of life from the time of their birth.

Author : Sidney Bloch,Stephen A. Green,Jeremy Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199638963

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Psychiatry by Sidney Bloch,Stephen A. Green,Jeremy Holmes Pdf

Psychiatry: Past, Present, and Prospect provides a set of perspectives written in essay form from eminent contributors, covering the major developments in psychiatry over the last 40 years.

Author : Maxine Berg
Publisher : OUP/British Academy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0197265324

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Writing the History of the Global by Maxine Berg Pdf

How do we write about the history of a place, a person, an event or an idea in its context in the world? How do we do history in the current age of globalization? In this book historians engage in new dialogues outside their former specialisms to face new challenges of comparative and connective histories.

Author : Prasenjit Duara,Viren Murthy,Andrew Sartori
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118525364

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A Companion to Global Historical Thought by Prasenjit Duara,Viren Murthy,Andrew Sartori Pdf

A COMPANION TO GLOBAL HISTORICAL THOUGHT A Companion to Global Historical Thought provides an overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, directly addressing issues of historiography in a globalized context. Questions concerning the global dissemination of historical writing and the relationship between historiography and other ways of representing the past have become important not only in the academic study of history, but also in public arenas in many countries. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book considers the problem of “the global” – in the multiplicity of traditions of narrating the past; in the global dissemination of modern historical writing; and of “the global” as a concept animating historical imaginations. It explores the different intellectual approaches that have shaped the discipline of history, and the challenges posed by modernity and globalization, while illustrating the shifts in thinking about time and the emergence of historical thought. Complementing A Companion to Western Historical Thought, this book places non-Western perspectives on historiography at the center of discussion, helping scholars and students alike make sense of the discipline at the start of the twenty-first century.