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Writing World History 1800-2000
Benedikt Stuchtey and Eckhardt Fuchs
376 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-925557-3
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Hardback
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26 June 2003
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- Comparative approach
- Global perspective
- Goes beyond Eurocentrism
- Contains essays investigating theoretical, methodological, and ideological debates as well as essays presenting Western and non-Western case studies
Writing World History contributes to the highly topical debate on world history by addressing the subject comparatively. Building on the current academic as well as public interest in world history in the Western and non-Western world, and especially in the United States, this volume links a critical investigation of the traditions of world history-writing with the most recent theoretical, methodological, and ideological debates on the subject. It is original in two ways: first, it present different modern approaches to contemporary world history and its debates.
Secondly, it offers a critical analysis of the historical traditions of world history over the past 200 years by providing a selection of case studies. From a transcultural perspective, these demonstrate different ideas about the world and the relationship between 'periphery' and 'centre' in various geographical areas such as the USA, Britain, Germany, France, and Russia; Africa; and China, India, and Japan. The essays make clear that interpretations of the world reflect perceptions of one's own culture, and that the notion of the world can be used to legitimize political aims. Since this field emerged in the USA and developed into a separate subdiscipline, American concepts of world history have dominated the discourse. The objective is to go beyond the comparison of Western and
non-Western concepts by offering a critical evaluation of their theoretical foundations, ideological implications, and moral connotations. The volume offers a critique of a Eurocentric and an ethnocentric world history.
Readership: History teachers, historians at universities and colleges; postgraduate and 3rd year undergraduate history students; academics in neighbouring disciplines such as anthropology, ethnology, sociology, and political science
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Benedikt Stuchtey, Research Fellow, German Historical Institute London, and Eckhardt Fuchs, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Mannheim Contributors:
Professor Michael Adas, Rutgers University
Professor Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawaii
Professor Michael J. Bentley, University of St. Andrews
Dr Thomas M. Bohn, University of Jena
Dr Sebastian Conrad, Free University of Berlin
Professor Arif Dirlik, University of Oregon
Dr Andreas Eckert, University of Hamburg
Dr Eckhardt Fuchs, University of Mannheim
Professor
Vinay Lal, University of California in Los Angeles
Professor Ricardo King Sang Mak, Hong Kong Baptist University
Professor Patrick K. O'Brien, F.B.A., London School of Economics
Professor Lutz Raphael, University of Trier
Dr Benedikt Stuchtey, German Historical Institute London
Professor Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame
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"This important collection offers a lengthy introduction that is particularly valuable for its discussion of the German approach to world history, followed by three essays on theoretical aspects of world history and ten on its application. The deliberate avoidance of a Eurocentric approach is especially valuable." - English Historical Review
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1: Benedikt Stuchtey and Eckhardt Fuchs: Introductions: Problems of Writing World History. Western and Non-Western Experiences, 1800-2000
l: Mapping the Subject
2: Jerry H. Bentley: World History and Grand Narrative
3: Patrick Karl O'Brien: The Deconstruction of Myths and Reconstruction of Metanarratives in Global Histories of Material Progress
4: Arif Dirlik: Confounding Metaphors, Inventions of the World: What is World History For?
II: Rethinking and Writing World History
5: Michael Adas: From Settler Colony to Global Hegemon: Integrating the Exceptionalist Narrative of the American Experience into World History
6: Lutz Raphael: The Idea and Practice of World Historiography in France: the Annales Legacy
7: Michael J. Bentley: The Singularities of British Weltgeschichte
8: Thomas M. Bohn: Writing World History in Tsarist Russia and in the Soviet Union
9: Benedikt Stuchtey: World Power and World History: Writing the British Empire, 1885-1945
10: Andrea Eckert: Fitting Africa into World History: A Historiographical Exploration
11: Vinay Lal: Provincializing the West: World History from the Perspective of Indian History
12: Ricardo K.S. Mak: The 'Middle Kingdom' Struggles to Survive: The Chinese Worldview in the Nineteenth Century
13: Julia Adeney Thomas: High Anxiety: Japanese World History as National Defence
14: Sebastian Conrad: The Opened and the Closed Country: Conflicting Views of Japan's Position in the World
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