The prospect of global history / edited by James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz and Chris Wickham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belich, James, 1956- editor.

Darwin, John, editor.

Frenz, Margret, editor.

Wickham, Chris, 1950- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This volume is the first of a new series from the Oxford Centre for Global History. It seeks to apply global history rather than merely preach it, and suggests a number of ways in which this can be done. East Asian and Islamic perspectives are here taken as seriously as European ones. The volume insists on depth in historical analysis, or longue durée, and speaks to those interested in medieval and ancient history quite as much as modern history. At the same time, it offers case studies from a wide geographical range. Chapters range from historical sociology to economic history, from ancient and medieval to modern times, from European expansion to constitutional history, from the United States across South Asia to China.

Contents:

Cover; The Prospect of Global History; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Contributors; PART I: CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS; Introduction: The Prospect of Global History; APPROACHES; GLOBALIZATION; COMPARISONS; CONNECTEDNESS; THE ESSAYS IN THIS BOOK; 1: Global History and Historical Sociology; GLOBAL HISTORY'S NEED FOR THEORY; CONCEPTS AND CONSTRUCTIONS IN GLOBAL HISTORY; GLOBAL HISTORY AND HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY: A FEW SHARED INTERESTS; SIX TYPES OF GLOBAL HISTORY: THEIR SPECIFIC NEEDS FOR THEORY

KEY ISSUES OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGYCONCLUSION: AMBIVALENCE; 2: The Economist and Global History; INTRODUCTION; PRICES, QUANTITIES, AND PAROCHIALISM; TRACKING GLOBALIZATION OVER TIME; QUANTIFYING CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE; EXPLAINING CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE; POSTSCRIPT: THE BENEFITS OF A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; PART II: GLOBAL CIRCULATIONS; 3: Unnecessary Dependences: Illustrating Circulation in Pre-modern Large-scale History; GLOBAL HISTORY AND GLOBALIZATION; TRAJECTORIES OF A DESIRABLE PRODUCT: THE ANCIENT IMAGINAIRE OF INCENSE; THE DOSSIER ON INCENSE TRANSFORMED

UNNECESSARY DEPENDENCE: CIRCULATION INVOKEDINTIMATIONS OF THE GLOBAL; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; 4: A Global Middle Ages?; INTRODUCTION; 'THE MIDDLE AGES' IN NON-EUROPEAN HISTORY; 'THE MIDDLE AGES' IN PRACTICE; PERIODIZING GLOBAL HISTORY; INTENSIFICATION AND RESILIENCE; CONCLUSION; 5: The Black Death and the Spread of Europe; GLOBALIZING EUROPE; PLAGUE MYSTERIES; PLAGUE'S IMPACT; PLAGUE AND EXPANSION; 6: The Qing Empire in the Fabric of Global History; CHINA IN THE WORLD: COMPETING PERSPECTIVES; GHOMBOJAB AND THE 'SONS OF CHAGHATAI'; THE QING IN GLOBAL HISTORY; CONCLUSION

PART III: GLOBAL NETWORKS7: Global History from an Islamic Angle; THE ANGLE OF APPROACH; THE MUSLIM WORLD AND GLOBAL HISTORY; THE CONNECTEDNESS OF THE MUSLIM WORLD; NEW FORMS OF CONNECTEDNESS; SHARED WORLDS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE; The World of Storytelling; Astrology; Commodities of Global Impact; THE 'PROTESTANT TURN', A PROCESS OF CHANGE WIDELY EXPERIENCED; 8: The Real American Empire; INTRODUCTION; AN OUTLINE OF AN ARGUMENT; THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; ACQUIRING THE REAL AMERICAN EMPIRE; THE TERMS OF THE TRADE; THE REAL AMERICAN EMPIRE; OUTCOMES; POST-COLONIAL GLOBALIZATION; EPILOGUE

9: Writing Constitutions and Writing World HistoryINTRODUCTION; SPREADING THE WORD; CONSTITUTIONS AND EMPIRES; TRANSITIONS; CONCLUSIONS AND ISSUES; Afterword: History on a Global Scale; Bibliography; PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY LITERATURE; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-104614-0

0-19-179656-5

0-19-104613-2