A companion to global historical thought / edited by Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthy, and Andrew Sartori.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duara, Prasenjit.

Murthy, Viren.

Sartori, Andrew.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history.

History--Philosophy.

History.

History, Ancient--Historiography.

History, Ancient.

History, Modern--Historiography.

History, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (538 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Massachusetts : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Companion to Global Historical Thought provides an in-depth overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, across the world, directly addressing the issues of historical thought in a globalized context.Provides an overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, across the world, through essays written by a team of leading international scholarsComplements the Companion to Western Historical Thought, placing non-Western perspectives on historiography at the center of the discu

Contents:

A Companion to Global Historical Thought; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Discussion of Part I: Past Histories; Discussion of Part II: Modern Histories; Discussion of Part III: Histories beyond the Nation and Profession; Whither the Global?; Part I Premodern Historical Thought; Chapter One History as a Way of Remembering the Past: Early India; Chapter Two Classical Chinese Historical Thought; The Mandate of Heaven and the Dynastic Cycle; The Historian as Sage; Anecdotes; The Beginning of Imperial Historiography; Sima Qian; Ban Gu; Millenarian Visions

Empires as DynastiesSima Guang; Conclusion; Chapter Three The Romance of the Middle Ages: Discovering the Past in Early Modern Japan; Official Histories; Tokushi yoron and the Presence of the Past; The Problem of Historical Distance; Achieving Historical Distance; Bridging the Gap; Chapter Four Buddhist Worlds; Introduction; Time, Decline, and Periodization; Vamsa; Into the Modern Period; Chapter Five Premodern Arabic/Islamic Historical Writing; Introduction; Mapping the Tradition; Beginnings; The Ninth and Tenth Centuries; The Age of the Great Chronicles; Reflections on History

The Problem of AuthenticityConclusion; Chapter Six Ottoman Historical Thought; The Ottoman Empire; The Theory of History; Time and Genre; Agency and Morality; The Historian's Craft; Chapter Seven "Premodern" Pasts: South Asia; Chapter Eight History, Exile, and Counter-History: Jewish Perspectives; The Complexity of the Term "Jewish Historiography"; Exile and History; Exile and the Jewish-Christian Polemics; Exilic Jews and the Question of History; The Modern Writing of Jewish History; Part II Historiographies; Chapter Nine The Legacy of Greece and Rome

Conceptions of Temporality and "the Past"What Should History Be?; Genres of Historical Writing; The Purpose of Historiography; Conclusion; Chapter Ten America and Global Historical Thought in the Early Modern Period; Chapter Eleven European Societies and their Norms in the Process of Expansion: The Iberian Cases; Expansion and Political Modernity: Chronological Discordances; 1492: Convenient Date or Obstructive Symbol?; European Norms and the Colonial Atlantic; Universality and Processes of Racialization; Chapter Twelve The Global in Enlightenment Historical Thought

Philosophical and Commercial, or Comparative and Connective, HistoriesGlobal History's Moral Purpose; Universalism and European Exceptionalism; Chapter Thirteen Hegel, Marx, and World History; Hegel; Marx; Chapter Fourteen The World of Modern Japanese Historiography: Tribulations and Transformations in Historical Approaches; From Meiji to the Early Showa Precipice; The American Occupation and Postwar High-Growth Years; History in Japan from the 1980s: The East Asia Factor; Chapter Fifteen Critical Theories of Modernity; Hegel's Legacy and His Critique of Romanticism

Franz Rosenzweig: Rethinking Judaism Beyond Modernity

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 4, 2014).

ISBN:

9781118525357

1118525353

9781118525395

1118525396

9781118525388

1118525388

OCLC:

842264870