21st-century narratives of world history: global and multidisciplinary perspectives
This book makes a unique and timely contribution to world/global historical studies and related fields. It places essential world historical frameworks by top scholars in the field today in clear, direct relation to and conversation with one other, offering them opportunity to enrich, elucidate and,...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2017
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=5143327 Verlag, Volltext: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1632505 Cover: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz495820687cov.jpg 
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| Author Notes: | edited by R. Charles Weller |
| Summary: | This book makes a unique and timely contribution to world/global historical studies and related fields. It places essential world historical frameworks by top scholars in the field today in clear, direct relation to and conversation with one other, offering them opportunity to enrich, elucidate and, at times, challenge one another. It thereby aims to: (1) offer world historians opportunity to critically reflect upon and refine their essential interpretational frameworks, (2) facilitate more effective and nuanced teaching and learning in and beyond the classroom, (3) provide accessible world historical contexts for specialized areas of historical as well as other fields of research in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, and (4) promote comparative historiographical critique which (a) helps identify continuing research questions for the field of world history in particular, as well as (b) further global peace and dialogue in relation to varying views of our ever-increasingly interconnected, interdependent, multicultural, and globalized world and its shared though diverse and sometimes contested history.-- ""21st-Century Narratives of World History""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Editor and Contributors""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Part I Historical Background""; ""Part I Historical Background""; ""Chapter 1 â#x80;#x98;Grand Narrativeâ#x80;#x99; and â#x80;#x98;Newâ#x80;#x99; World Histories: Their Historical Challenges and Contributions in Western Scholarship ""; ""Chapter 2 â#x80;#x98;Westernâ#x80;#x99; and â#x80;#x98;White Civilizationâ#x80;#x99;: White Nationalism and Eurocentrism at the Crossroads ""; ""The Post-Cold War and Post-911 Turn""; ""Part II 21st-Century Narratives of World History ""Chapter 3 Periodization in World History: Challenges and Opportunities """"Introduction: Issues and Criteria""; ""Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through Debate Over World History Periodization""; ""A Periodization Framework""; ""Getting Started""; ""Agriculture""; ""The Early Civilization Period, 3500â#x80;#x93;600 or so BCE""; ""World History Periodization in the Past Three Millennia""; ""The Classical Period""; ""Post-classical, 600â#x80;#x93;1450""; ""Opportunities for Debate""; ""Early Modern, 1450â#x80;#x93;1750""; ""Other Opportunities for Debate""; ""The Long Nineteenth Century ""Some Inescapable Debates""""The Contemporary Era""; ""For Debate""; ""The End of the Contemporary Era""; ""Chapter 4 â#x80;#x9C;Complexity, Energy and Information in Big History and Human Historyâ#x80;#x9D; ""; ""Introduction""; ""A Big History Storyline: Increasing Complexity and Flows of Free Energy""; ""Complexity, Free Energy and Entropy""; ""Building Complex Physical Systems""; ""Life and Information""; ""Information: Universal and Local""; ""Local Information and the Evolution of Life""; ""Human History: Information Unleashed""; ""Collective Learning in the Paleolithic Era ""Agrarian Societies of the Holocene Epoch""""Agriculture, Complexity and New Emergent Properties""; ""Agriculture and New Flows of Energy""; ""Agriculture, Complex Societies and New Information Flows""; ""An Energy Ceiling to Agrarian Societies?""; ""The Anthropocene Epoch""; ""And Back to Big History""; ""Further Reading""; ""Chapter 5 History Beyond Humanity: Between â#x80;#x98;Bigâ#x80;#x99; and â#x80;#x98;Deepâ#x80;#x99; History ""; ""Introduction""; ""History Beyond Humanity: Between â#x80;#x98;Bigâ#x80;#x99; and â#x80;#x98;Deepâ#x80;#x99; History""; ""Chapter 6 The Human System: An Introduction ""; ""The Human System and Its Troubles ""Formation and Expansion of the Human System, 70,000â#x80;#x93;30,000 BP""""Biological and Social Systems: Theories of Their Evolution""; ""Social Evolution and Social Reproduction""; ""Dilemmas and Subsystems, 30,000â#x80;#x93;6000 BP""; ""Diverging Scales of Social Order, 4000 BCEâ#x80;#x93;1700 CE""; ""Human Nature: Can It Change? 1700 to the Present""; ""Chapter 7 Social and Cultural World History ""; ""Introduction""; ""Social and Cultural World History""; ""Foraging and Farming Families to 3000 BCE""; ""Cities and Classical Societies (3000 BCEâ#x80;#x93;500 CE) ""Expanding Networks of Interaction, 500 CEâ#x80;#x93;1500 CE |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9783319620787 3319620789 |