内容简介

The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field. The forty-four articles in this book take stock of the history, evolving literature, and current trajectories of new world history. These essays, together with the editors’ introductions to thematic chapters, encourage educators and students to reflect critically on the development of the field and to explore concepts, approaches, and insights valuable to their own work. The selections are organized in ten chapters that survey the history of the movement, the seminal ideas of founding thinkers and today’s practitioners, changing concepts of world historical space and time, comparative methods, environmental history, the “big history” movement, globalization, debates over the meaning of Western power, and ongoing questions about the intellectual premises and assumptions that have shaped the field.

作品目录

Preface

Introduction

Further Reading

CHAPTER 1 WORLD HISTORY OVER TIME: THE EVOLUTION OF AN INTELLECTUAL AND PEDAGOGICAL MOVEMENT

Introduction

The Rise of World History Scholarship • Craig A. Lockard

World History • Marnie Hughes-Warrington

Toward World History: American Historians and the Coming of the World History Course • Gilbert Allardyce

Marshall G. S. Hodgson and the Hemispheric Interregional Approach to World History • Edmund Burke III

Further Reading

CHAPTER 2 DEFINING WORLD HISTORY: SOME KEY STATEMENTS

Introduction

Hemispheric Interregional History as an Approach to World History • Marshall G. S. Hodgson

The Rise of the West after Twenty-Five Years • William H. McNeill

Depth, Span, and Relevance • Philip D. Curtin

A Plea for World System History • Andre Gunder Frank

Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History • Jerry H. Bentley

World History and the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality • Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Further Reading

CHAPTER 3 REGIONS IN WORLD-HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Introduction

The Middle East and North Africa in World History • Julia A. Clancy-Smith

No Longer Odd Region Out: Repositioning Latin America in World History • Lauren Benton

Southeast Asia in World History • Craig A. Lockard

American History as if the World Mattered (and Vice Versa) • Carl Guarneri

Further Reading

CHAPTER 4 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL SPACE

Introduction

The Architecture of Continents: The Development of the Continental Scheme • Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen

Southernization • Lynda Shaffer

Oceans of World History: Delineating Aquacentric Notions in the Global Past • Rainer F. Buschmann

Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities • Alison Games

Further Reading

CHAPTER 5 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL TIME

Introduction

Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History • Jerry H. Bentley

When Does World History Begin? (And Why Should We Care?) • David Northrup

History and Science after the Chronometric Revolution • David Christian

Worlding History • Daniel A. Segal

Further Reading

CHAPTER 6 WORLD HISTORY AS COMPARISON

Introduction

Global and Comparative History • Michael Adas

Frameworks for Global Historical Analysis • Patrick Manning

How to Write the History of the World • Lauren Benton

What Is World History Good For? • Kenneth Pomeranz

Further Reading

CHAPTER 7 DEBATING THE QUESTION OF WESTERN POWER

Introduction

Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global Conjuncture • Kenneth Pomeranz

The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity • Joseph M. Bryant

Capitalist Origins, the Advent of Modernity, and Coherent Explanation: A Response to Joseph M. Bryant • Jack A. Goldstone

Comparison in Global History • Prasannan Parthasarathi

Further Reading

CHAPTER 8 WORLD HISTORY, BIG HISTORY, AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

Introduction

The Columbian Exchange • Alfred W. Crosby

Matter Matters: Towards a More “Substantial” Global History • Frank Uekotter

The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? • Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill

Big History: The Emergence of a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach • Fred Spier

Further Reading

CHAPTER 9 GLOBAL HISTORY AND GLOBALIZATION

Introduction

Global History: Approaches and New Directions • Maxine Berg

Comparing Global History to World History • Bruce Mazlish

Cycles of Silver: Globalization as Historical Process • Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giraldez

What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African Historian’s Perspective • Frederick Cooper

Further Reading

CHAPTER 10 CRITIQUES AND QUESTIONS

Introduction

Global History and Critiques of Western Perspectives • Dominic Sachsenmaier

Much Ado about Something: The New Malaise of World History • Vinay Lal

Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History • Jerry H. Bentley

Beyond Blacks, Bondage, and Blame: Why a Multicentric World History Needs Africa • Joseph C. Miller

Women’s and Men’s World History? Not Yet • Judith P. Zinsser

Histories for a Less National Age • Kenneth Pomeranz

Further Reading

Teaching World History, Further Reading

Credits

Index