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Architects of world history : researching the global past /

"Architects of World History presents an innovative collection of original essays by leading scholars associated with World History, exploring through intellectual autobiography the ideas, challenges, and inspirations that are shaping the field. Features original, accessible contributions from...

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Corporate Authors: Wiley (Online service)
Group Author: Curtis, Kenneth Robert; Bentley, Jerry H., 1949-
Published: Wiley Blackwell.,
Publisher Address: Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
World history > Historiography.
Historians > Biography.
Historiography > Methodology.
Online Access: http://www.itextbook.cn/f/book/bookDetail?bookId=2b4f25f2b3bf41b99cc1315bb5d1d358
Summary: "Architects of World History presents an innovative collection of original essays by leading scholars associated with World History, exploring through intellectual autobiography the ideas, challenges, and inspirations that are shaping the field. Features original, accessible contributions from pioneering scholars in the field. Offers insights into the process of developing a workable world history research topic and the experience of professional life as a world historian. Points to methodological challenges; the scholar's current research agenda in relation to the development of world history; and future directions anticipated for key areas within world history"--
Item Description: Description based on print version record.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (x, 242 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781118294826
Index Number: D13
CLC: K10
Contents: Architects of World History / Kenneth R. Curtis -- En Route to World Environmental History / J.R. McNeill -- Gender Intersections / Merry Wiesner-Hanks -- No Great Divergence : Reaching World History Through East Asian Studies / Kenneth Pomeranz -- Cultural and Religious Exchanges / Dominic Sachsenmaier -- Law and World History / Lauren Benton -- Africa in the World : From National Histories to Global Connections / Kerry Ward -- Big History / David Christian -- In Search of a Global Cultural History / Jerry Bentley with Karen Jolly.

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