Universal history and the making of the global / edited by Hall Bjørnstad, Helge Jordheim and Anne Régent-Susini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dr. Ada H. Lewis Book Fund.

Bjørnstad, Hall, editor.

Jordheim, Helge, editor.

Régent-Susini, Anne, editor.

Series:

Routledge approaches to history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

vi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"By examining the history of universal history from the late Middle Ages until the early nineteenth century we trace the making of the global. Early modern universal history can be seen as a response to the epistemological crisis provoked by new knowledge and experience. Traditional narratives were no longer sufficient to gain an understanding of events. Inspired by recent developments in theory of history, the volume argues that the relevance of universal history resides in the laboratory of intense, diverse and mainly unsuccessful attempts at thinking history and universals together. They all shared the common aim of integrating all time and space: assemble the world and keep it together."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Hall Bjørnstad, Helge Jordheim and Anne Régent-Susini

On the history of universal history / Gérard Ferreyrolles

Section I. Past : universality and histories. The unity of history in early modern Europe / Zachary Sayre Schiffman

"Even fables will become history" : la popelinière and universal history at the end of the sixteenth century / Philippe Desan

Experience, confusion and history in Bossuet's Discourse on universal history / John D. Lyons

Tocqueville's Democracy in America and the end of history / Guillaume Ansart

Section II. Present : time and visualization. Providential novelties : Werner Rolevinck's universal timelines / Patricia Clare Ingham

Tattoos and time : visual ethnography and universal history in A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590) / Tony Sandset

Histoire de l'œil, œil de l'histoire : can we see universal history? : about Bossuet's Discourse on universal history / Anne Régent-Susini

Making universal time : tools of synchronization / Helge Jordheim

Section III. Future : pedagogy and politics. Between providence and foresight : Bossuet's Discourse on universal history / Hall Bjørnstad

Commonplaces and simple truths : Ludvig Holberg's Synopsis historiæ universalis (1733) and the tradition of textbooks / Anne Eriksen

Universal history and the lessons of the French Revolution in Friedrich Schiller / Johannes Türk

Historicization and perpetuation of the French language : a laboratory of the universal / Hélène Merlin-Kajman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. Ada H. Lewis Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Universal history and the making of the global.

ISBN:

9781138316195

1138316199

OCLC:

1029802144