The New World History: A Field Guide for Teachers and ResearchersRoss E. Dunn, Laura J. Mitchell, Kerry Ward 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 editorsÕ 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 todayÕs practitioners, changing concepts of world historical space and time, comparative methods, environmental history, the Òbig historyÓ movement, globalization, debates over the meaning of Western power, and ongoing questions about the intellectual premises and assumptions that have shaped the field. |
Contents
Further Reading | 15 |
The Rise of World History Scholarship | 22 |
World History | 39 |
American Historians and the Coming | 48 |
Marshall G S Hodgson and the Hemispheric Interregional | 78 |
Further Reading | 89 |
SOME KEY STATEMENTS | 91 |
Myths Wagers and Some Moral Implications of World | 94 |
Worlding History | 317 |
Further Reading | 329 |
WORLD HISTORY AS COMPARISON | 331 |
What Is World History Good For? | 347 |
Further Reading | 354 |
European Colonialism and the Advent of Modernity | 383 |
WORLD HISTORY BIG HISTORY AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT | 421 |
Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great | 440 |
Depth Span and Relevance | 121 |
A Plea for World System History | 130 |
Myths Wagers and Some Moral Implications of World | 145 |
World History and the History of Women Gender | 152 |
Further Reading | 163 |
Southeast Asia in World History | 189 |
American History as if the World Mattered | 199 |
Further Reading | 212 |
RETHINKING WORLDHISTORICAL SPACE | 215 |
Definitions Challenges | 267 |
Further Reading | 285 |
The Emergence of a Novel Interdisciplinary | 459 |
Further Reading | 472 |
Globalization as Historical Process | 503 |
What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African | 514 |
Further Reading | 529 |
The New Malaise of World | 555 |
History | 561 |
Womens and Mens World History? Not Yet | 578 |
Further Reading | 611 |
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