Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 328 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780511626104
Serie:
Studies in comparative world history
Inhalt:
Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of Europe in world history. He argues that the line that connects Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance to modern times is an optical illusion, and that a global and Asia-centred history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. Hodgson then shifts the historical focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilisation in a world historical framework. In so doing he concludes that there is but one history - global history - and that all partial or privileged accounts must necessarily be resituated in a world historical context. The book also includes an introduction by the editor, Edmund Burke, contextualising Hodgson's work in world history and Islamic history
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521432535
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521438445
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hodgson, Marshall G. S., 1922 - 1968 Rethinking world history Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993 ISBN 0521432537
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0521438446
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
Schlagwort(e):
Weltgeschichte
;
Europa
;
Islam
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511626104
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