A Companion to Global Historical Thought

A Companion to  Global Historical Thought......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents
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Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 15
Discussion of Part I: Past Histories......Page 16
Discussion of Part II: Modern Histories......Page 20
Discussion of Part III: Histories beyond the Nation and Profession......Page 27
Whither the Global?......Page 30
Part I Premodern Historical Thought......Page 33
Chapter One History as a Way of Remembering the Past: Early India......Page 35
The Mandate of Heaven and the Dynastic Cycle......Page 48
The Historian as Sage......Page 49
The Beginning of Imperial Historiography......Page 51
Sima Qian......Page 52
Millenarian Visions......Page 55
Sima Guang......Page 57
Conclusion......Page 58
Chapter Three The Romance of the Middle Ages: Discovering the Past in Early Modern Japan......Page 61
Official Histories......Page 63
Tokushi yoron and the Presence of the Past......Page 64
The Problem of Historical Distance......Page 67
Achieving Historical Distance......Page 69
Bridging the Gap......Page 70
Introduction......Page 77
Time, Decline, and Periodization......Page 78
Vamsa......Page 82
Into the Modern Period......Page 87
Introduction......Page 92
Beginnings......Page 93
The Ninth and Tenth Centuries......Page 94
The Age of the Great Chronicles......Page 98
Reflections on History......Page 100
The Problem of Authenticity......Page 102
Conclusion......Page 104
The Ottoman Empire......Page 106
The Theory of History......Page 107
Time and Genre......Page 108
Agency and Morality......Page 111
The Historian’s Craft......Page 116
Chapter Seven “Premodern” Pasts: South Asia......Page 121
The Complexity of the Term “Jewish Historiography”......Page 136
Exile and History......Page 137
Exile and the Jewish-Christian Polemics......Page 140
Exilic Jews and the Question of History......Page 141
The Modern Writing of Jewish History......Page 144
Part II Historiographies......Page 151
Chapter Nine The Legacy of Greece and Rome......Page 153
Conceptions of Temporality and “the Past”......Page 154
What Should History Be?......Page 156
Genres of Historical Writing......Page 159
The Purpose of Historiography......Page 162
Conclusion......Page 165
Chapter Ten America and Global Historical Thought in the Early Modern Period......Page 167
Expansion and Political Modernity: Chronological Discordances......Page 183
1492: Convenient Date or Obstructive Symbol?......Page 186
European Norms and the Colonial Atlantic......Page 188
Universality and Processes of Racialization......Page 190
Chapter Twelve The Global in Enlightenment Historical Thought......Page 198
Philosophical and Commercial, or Comparative and Connective, Histories......Page 201
Global History’s Moral Purpose......Page 203
Universalism and European Exceptionalism......Page 206
Hegel......Page 211
Marx......Page 218
Chapter Fourteen The World of Modern Japanese Historiography: Tribulations and Transformations in Historical Approaches......Page 227
From Meiji to the Early Showa Precipice......Page 228
The American Occupation and Postwar High-Growth Years......Page 233
History in Japan from the 1980s: The East Asia Factor......Page 237
Hegel’s Legacy and His Critique of Romanticism......Page 242
Franz Rosenzweig: Rethinking Judaism Beyond Modernity......Page 244
Lukács: Capitalism as Modernity......Page 246
Benjamin: The Romantic Critique of Modernity Meets Marxism......Page 249
Japanese Critics of Modernity in the 1930s and 1940s: Nishida Kitarō and Miki Kiyoshi......Page 250
Conclusion......Page 254
Fifty Years of Methodological Discussions on Facts and Theories among Chinese Historians......Page 257
Mao Zedong Thought and the Problem of Relating Facts and Theory......Page 264
Conclusion......Page 267
Premodern Stories of the Ahistorical Past in Southeast Asia......Page 271
The Birth of Modern History in Siam......Page 273
The Misleading Royal-Nationalist History of Thailand......Page 279
Final Remarks......Page 281
Vistas from the Vice of Origins......Page 283
Vistas from the Momentous Nineteenth Century......Page 289
Conclusion......Page 299
The Politics of Time......Page 307
Historical Thought and Its Transformations......Page 311
History and Its Limits......Page 315
Chapter Twenty Modern Historiography – Arab World......Page 322
I......Page 335
II......Page 337
III......Page 339
IV......Page 341
V......Page 344
Part III Global Histories and New Directions......Page 349
Chapter Twenty-Two Oceanic History......Page 351
Chapter Twenty-Three Environmental History and World History: Parallels, Intersections, And Tensions......Page 365
Origins: North America and South Asia......Page 366
Environmental History in Europe......Page 368
Colonial Impacts and Postcolonial Literatures......Page 369
Issues of Temporal Scale and Continuity: China as Oddity and Model......Page 371
World Environmental History and Contemporary Crises: Is “the Big Picture” Possible? Useful?......Page 372
Three Syntheses and Their Limits......Page 374
Chapter Twenty-Four Dependency Theory and World-Systems Analysis......Page 383
Chapter Twenty-Five Empires and Imperialism......Page 398
Classical and Pre-Capitalist Empires......Page 399
The Historical Legacy of Imperial Rome......Page 403
Historical Interpretations of Modern Empire......Page 404
Historiography of Modern Imperialism......Page 406
Empires and Imperialism in the Twentieth Century......Page 410
Conclusion......Page 411
Chapter Twenty-Six Histories of Globalization(s)......Page 413
Globalization: Method or Topic?......Page 414
Early Modern Globality......Page 416
Nineteenth-Century Globality......Page 418
Historiography......Page 420
Conclusion......Page 422
Chapter Twenty-Seven Comparative History and Its Critics: A Genealogy and a Possible Solution......Page 426
I. The Evolution of Comparative Historiography: An Imperial Genealogy......Page 428
II. Connected History and the Historicist Critique of Comparison......Page 430
III. Historicism, Neo-Historicism and the False Dichotomy between Nomothetic and Idiographic Sciences......Page 432
IV. The Post-WWII Configuration of American Social Science and the Stabilization of the Comparative Method......Page 435
V. Critical Realism and Bourdieusian Theory: Retheorizing Comparative History......Page 436
Conclusion......Page 440
Productions of Women within the Global......Page 451
Conflicting Representations of Women within the Global......Page 453
The History of Writing Women into the Global......Page 456
The History of Women and Global Capitalism......Page 458
The History of Sexuality and the Global......Page 461
Conclusion......Page 463
Introduction......Page 465
The “Tide of History”......Page 467
No “Wind of Change”......Page 470
Conclusion?......Page 472
Chapter Thirty History, Memory, Justice......Page 480
Introduction......Page 496
1. History Textbooks as Shapers of Collective National Identities......Page 497
2. International Attempts at Conflict Resolution through Textbook Revision......Page 498
3. The Dethroning of Nation: The Disintegration of Hegemonic Narrative......Page 500
4. Globalization, Global Memory Culture, and Textbooks......Page 503
Index......Page 510