Weller, R. Charles
21st-Century Narratives of World History
Part I. Historical Background
1. ‘Grand Narrative’ and ‘New’ World Histories: Their Historical Challenges and Contributions in Western Scholarship
R. Charles Weller
2. ‘Western’ and ‘White Civilization’: White Nationalism and Eurocentrism at the Crossroads
R. Charles Weller
Part II. 21st-Century Narratives of World History
3. Periodization in World History: Challenges and Opportunities
Peter N. Stearns
4. “Complexity, Energy and Information in Big History and Human History”
David Christian
5. History Beyond Humanity: Between ‘Big’ and ‘Deep’ History
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
6. The Human System: An Introduction
Patrick Manning
7. Social and Cultural World History
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
8. World History as a Single Story
Tamim Ansary
9. Western, Russian, and Islamic Culture in World Civilizational Perspective
Tursin Hafizuhli Gabitov
10. Going Global: Thematic Explorations in World History
Candice Goucher
Part III. Comparative Historiographical Critiques
11. World History and Perspectivity: Between Necessity and Opportunity
Gotelind Müller
12. World Histories in Conversation
Leonid Trofimov
13. Eight World Historians
Diego Olstein
Keywords: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Historiography and Method, Cultural History
- Editor
- Weller, R. Charles
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 33 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319620787
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-62077-0