A Companion to World History

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables x Notes on Contributors xi      Editor\'s Acknowledgments xviii      Introduction: The Challenge of World History 1 Douglas Northrop      PART I TRAJECTORIES AND PRACTICES 13      1 World History: Departures and Variations 15 Kenneth Pomeranz and Daniel A. Segal      2 Why and How I Became a World Historian 32 Dominic Sachsenmaier      Researching the world: techniques and methods 43      3 Becoming a World Historian: The State of Graduate Training in World History and Placement in the Academic World 45 Heather Streets-Salter      4 The World Is Your Archive? The Challenges of World History as a Field of Research 63 Barbara Weinstein      5 What Are the Units of World History? 79 Adam McKeown      Teaching the world: publics and pedagogies 95      6 Meetings of World History and Public History 97 Leslie Witz      7 Challenges of Teaching and Learning World History 111 Robert B. Bain      8 Teaching World History at the College Level 128 Trevor Getz      PART II CATEGORIES AND CONCEPTS 141      Framing 142      9 Environments, Ecologies, and Cultures across Space and Time 143 I.G. Simmons      10 Deep Pasts: Interconnections and Comparative History in the Ancient World 156 Norman Yoffee      11 Big History 171 Fred Spier      12 Global Scale Analysis in Human History 185 Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall      13 Region in Global History 201 Paul A. Kramer      14 Scales of a Local: The Place of Locality in a Globalizing World 213 Anne Gerritsen      Comparing 227      15 Comparative History and the Challenge of the Grand Narrative 229 Michael Adas      16 The Science of Difference: Race, Indo-European Linguistics,and Eurasian Nomads 244 Xinru Liu      17 Projecting Power: Empires, Colonies, and World History 258 Mrinalini Sinha      18 The Body in/as World History 272 Antoinette Burton      19 Benchmarks of Globalization: The Global Condition, 1850   2010 285 Charles Bright and Michael Geyer      Connecting 301      20 Networks, Interactions, and Connective History 303 Felipe Fernandez-Armesto with Benjamin Sacks      21 Objects in Motion 321 Scott C. Levi      22 People in Motion 339 Kerry Ward      23 Religious Ideas in Motion 352 Karin Velez, Sebastian R. Prange, and Luke Clossey      24 Diseases in Motion 365 Martin S. Pernick      25 Bullets in Motion 375 Stephen Morillo      PART III MANY GLOBES: WHO WRITES THE WORLD? 389      26 The World from Oceania 391 Damon Ieremia Salesa      27 The World from China 405 Weiwei Zhang      28 Historicizing the World in Northeast Asia 418 Jie-Hyun Lim      29 Writing Global History in Africa 433 David Simo      30 Islamicate World Histories? 447 Huri Islamodlu      31 The World from Latin America and the Peripheries 464 Eduardo Deves-Valdes      32 (Re)Writing World Histories in Europe 478 Katja Naumann      33 Other Globes: Shifting Optics on the World 497 Douglas NorthropBibliography 527      Index 576        List of Maps, Figures, and Tables x     Notes on Contributors xi     Editor   s Acknowledgments xviii     Introduction: The Challenge of World History 1 Douglas Northrop     PART I TRAJECTORIES AND PRACTICES 13     1 World History: Departures and Variations 15 Kenneth Pomeranz and Daniel A. Segal     2 Why and How I Became a World Historian 32 Dominic Sachsenmaier     Researching the world: techniques and methods 43     3 Becoming a World Historian: The State of Graduate Training in World History and Placement in the Academic World 45 Heather Streets-Salter     4 The World Is Your Archive? The Challenges of World History as a Field of Research 63 Barbara Weinstein     5 What Are the Units of World History? 79 Adam McKeown     Teaching the world: publics and pedagogies 95     6 Meetings of World History and Public History 97 Leslie Witz     7 Challenges of Teaching and Learning World History 111 Robert B. Bain     8 Teaching World History at the College Level 128 Trevor Getz     PART II CATEGORIES AND CONCEPTS 141     Framing 142     9 Environments, Ecologies, and Cultures across Space and Time 143 I.G. Simmons     10 Deep Pasts: Interconnections and Comparative History in the Ancient World 156 Norman Yoffee     11 Big History 171 Fred Spier     12 Global Scale Analysis in Human History 185 Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall     13 Region in Global History 201 Paul A. Kramer     14 Scales of a Local: The Place of Locality in a Globalizing World 213 Anne Gerritsen     Comparing 227     15 Comparative History and the Challenge of the Grand Narrative 229 Michael Adas     16 The Science of Difference: Race, Indo-European Linguistics, and Eurasian Nomads 244 Xinru Liu     17 Projecting Power: Empires, Colonies, and World History 258 Mrinalini Sinha     18 The Body in/as World History 272 Antoinette Burton     19 Benchmarks of Globalization: The Global Condition, 1850   2010 285 Charles Bright and Michael Geyer     Connecting 301     20 Networks, Interactions, and Connective History 303 Felipe Fernandez-Armesto with Benjamin Sacks     21 Objects in Motion 321 Scott C. Levi     22 People in Motion 339 Kerry Ward     23 Religious Ideas in Motion 352 Karin Velez, Sebastian R. Prange, and Luke Clossey     24 Diseases in Motion 365 Martin S. Pernick     25 Bullets in Motion 375 Stephen Morillo     PART III MANY GLOBES: WHO WRITES THE WORLD? 389     26 The World from Oceania 391 Damon Ieremia Salesa     27 The World from China 405 Weiwei Zhang     28 Historicizing the World in Northeast Asia 418 Jie-Hyun Lim     29 Writing Global History in Africa 433 David Simo     30 Islamicate World Histories? 447 Huri Islamodlu     31 The World from Latin America and the Peripheries 464 Eduardo Deves-Valdes     32 (Re)Writing World Histories in Europe 478 Katja Naumann     33 Other Globes: Shifting Optics on the World 497 Douglas Northrop     Bibliography 527     Index 576