Western historical thinking:an intercultural debate

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Corporate Authors: Universität Bielefeld. Forschungsgruppe Historische Sinnbildung.
Group Author: Rüsen Jörn.
Published: Berghahn Books,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: 2002.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Making sense of history
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Item Description: Westliches Geschichtsdenken.
Carrier Form: xiii, 206 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1571817816 (alk. paper)
157181454X (pbk.)
Index Number: K103
CLC: K103
K061
K01
Call Number: K01/W527
Contents: Chiefly written by members of the Forschungsgruppe Historische Sinnbildung, Universität Bielefeld.
Based in part on Westliches Geschichtsdenken (1999).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Western historical thinking in a global perspective - 10 theses / Peter Burke -- Perspectives in historical anthropology / Klaus E. Müller -- Searching for common principles : a plea and some remarks on the Islamic tradition / Tarif Khalidi -- The coherence of the West / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- Toward an archaeology of historical thinking / François Hartog -- Trauma and suffering : a forgotten source of western historical consciousness / Frank R. Ankersmit -- Western deep culture and western historical thinking / Johan Galtung -- What is uniquely western about the historiography of the west in contrast to that of China? / Georg G. Iggers -- The westernization of world history / Hayden White -- Western historical thinking from an Arabian perspective / Sadik J. Al-Azm -- Cognitive historiography and normative historiography / Masayuki Sato -- Western uniqueness? Some counterarguments from an African perspective / Godfrey Muriuki -- Programs for historians : a western perspective / Mamadou Diawara -- Reflections on Chinese historical thinking / Ying-shih Yü -- Must history follow rational patterns of interpretation? Critical questions from a Chinese perspective / Thomas H.C. Lee -- Some reflections on early Indian historical thinking / Romila Thapar.