Writing World History 1800-2000

Writing World History offers a comparative look at the subject. It presents modern debates and analyses the traditions of world historiography in the USA, Europe, Africa, and Asia. This volume offers a critique of Eurocentrism and invites reflection on the political, ideological, and moral connotations of world history-writing.

Introduction. Problems of Writing World History: Western and Non-Western Experiences, 1800--2000

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(44)

Benedikt Stuchtey

Eckhardt Fuchs

Part I. Mapping the Subject

45

(90)

World History and Grand Narrative

47

(20)

Jerry H. Bentley

The Deconstruction of Myths and Reconstruction of Metanarratives in Global Histories of Material Progress

67

(24)

Patrick Karl O'brien

Confounding Metaphors, Inventions of the World: What is World History For?

91

(44)

Arif Dirlik

Part II. Rethinking and Writing World History

135

(218)

Out of Step with Time: United States Exceptionalism in an Age of Globalization

137

(18)

Michael Adas

The Idea and Practice of World Historiography in France: The Annales Legacy

155

(18)

Lutz Raphael

The Singularities of British Weltgeschichte

173

(24)

Michael Bentley

Writing World History in Tsarist Russia and in the Soviet Union

197

(16)

Thomas M. Bohn

World Power and World History: Writing the British Empire, 1885--1945

213

(42)

Benedikt Stuchtey

Fitting Africa into World History: A Historiographical Exploration

255

(16)

Andreas Eckert

Provincializing the West: World History from the Perspective of Indian History

271

(20)

Vinay Lal

The `Middle Kingdom' Struggles to Survive: The Chinese Worldview in the Nineteenth Century

291

(18)

Ricardo K. S. Mak

High Anxiety: World History as Japanese Self-Discovery

309

(18)

Julia Adeney Thomas

The Opened and the Closed Country: Conflicting Views of Japan's Position in the World

327

(26)

Sebastian Conrad

Notes on Contributors

353

(6)

Index

359

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Writing World History 1800-2000

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