A Companion to World History

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