Approaches to global history : to see the world whole / edited by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, [and seven others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--History.

Historiography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 361 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One PROPHECY AND PROVIDENTIALISM

The Book of Daniel

Chapters 7-12

Seven Books Against the Pagans / Paulus Orisius

Dedication

From Book I, Section 1

From Book II, Section 1, Book V, Sections 1

2, and Book VII, Sections 1

3

Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future / Marjorie Reeves

From Chapter 1: "Joachim and the Meaning of History"

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History / Ibn Khaldun

pt. Two FROM PROVIDENCE TO PROGRESS

Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man / Johann Gottfried Herder

Book XV, Chapters 1

5

Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View, On History [1784] / Immanuel Kant

Lectures on the Philosophy of World History / G.W.F. Hegel

"The Course of the World's History," Vol. III, Sections 60

99

Manifesto of the Communist Party [1848] / Friedrich Engels

ch. 1 Bourgeois and Proletarians

Universal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations and the Greeks [1884] / Leopold von Ranke

Preface

pt. Three THE SCIENTIFIC TEMPTATION

"Progress: Its Law and Cause" [1886] / Herbert Spencer

ch. 1 The Age of the Gods [1928] / Christopher Dawson

"World History in Context" [2003] / David Christian

"Does Culture Evolve?" [1994] / R.C. Lewontin

"How to be Human: A Historical Approach" [2010] / Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

"Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History" [2012] / Daniel Lord Smail

pt. Four COMPARATIVE AND CONTEXTUAL APPROACHES

"`To Civility and Man's Use': History, Culture, and Nature" [1998] / I.G. Simmons

"Social History and World History from Daily Life to Patterns of Change" [2007] / Kenneth Pomeranz

"Comparing Global History to World History" [1998] / Bruce Mazlish

pt. Five THE EUROCENTRISM CONTROVERSIES

"My View of History" / Arnold J. Toynbee

"The Clash of Civilizations" [1993] / Samuel Huntington

Indonesian Trade and Society: Essays in Asian Social and Economic History [1967] / J.C. van Leur

ch. 1 "On Methodology and Theory"

"A Defence of World History" [1982] / William H. McNeill

Envoi: The New Narratives

"Globalization and the Great Convergence: Rethinking World History in the Long Term" [2008] / David Northrup.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474286640

147428664X

9781474286633

1474286631

OCLC:

1253749618

Publisher Number:

99992874421