A companion to global historical thought
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 historic...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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[Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Wiley-Blackwell,
2014
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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| Schlagworte: | Geschichte # Sonstiges Weltgeschichte Geschichtsphilosophie Geschichtsschreibung |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (xii, 524 Seiten) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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