World History: Ideologies, Structures, and Identities

Abstract

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: The Theory and Practice of World History: Philip Pomper (Wesleyan University). Part I: Mapping the Field: 1. The Changing Shape of World History: William H. McNeill (University of Chicago). 2. Crossing Boundaries: Ecumenical, World, and Global History: Bruce Mazlish (MIT). 3. Periodizing World History: William A. Green (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester). Part II: Rethinking Structure, Agency, and Ideology: 4. The World-System Perspective in the Construction of Economic History: Jane Lippman Abu-Lughod (New School of Social Research, New York). 5. Bringing Ideas and Agency Back In: Representation and the Comparative Approach to World History: Michael Adas (Rutgers University). 6. World Histories and the Construction of Collective Identities: S. N. Eisenstadt (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem). 7. Time, Space and Prescriptive Marginality in Muslim Africa: Ritual and Historical Change: Lamin Sanneh (Yale Divinity School). Part III: Unbinding Identities: 8. History's Forgotten Doubles: Ashis Nandy (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi). 9. Identity in World History: A Postmodern Perspective: Lewis D. Wurgaft (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Part IV: Changing Trajectories: 10. Reflections on the End of History, Five Years Later: Francis Fukuyama (George Mason University). 11. World History, Cultural Relativism, and the Global Future: Theodore H. von Laue (Clark University). References. Notes. Index.

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