Writing World History : 1800-2000

Content

• Frontmatter

  p. i

  Stuchtey, Benedikt; Fuchs, Eckhardt

• Foreword

  p. v

  Wende, Peter

• Contents

  p. vii

  Stuchtey, Benedikt; Fuchs, Eckhardt

• Introduction : Problems of Writing World History: Western and Non-Western Experiences, 1800-2000

  p. 1

  Stuchtey, Benedikt; Fuchs, Eckhardt

• World History and Grand Narrative

  p. 47

  Bentley, Jerry H.

• The Deconstruction of Myths and Reconstruction of Metanarratives in Global Histories of Material Progress

  p. 67

  O'Brien, Patrick Karl

• Confounding Metaphors, Inventions of the World : What is World History For?

  p. 91

  Dirlik, Arif

• Out of Step with Time : United States Exceptionalism in an Age of Globalization

  p. 137

  Adas, Michael

• The Idea and Practice of World Historiography in France : The Annales Legacy

  p. 155

  Raphael, Lutz

• The Singularities of British Weltgeschichte

  p. 173

  Bentley, Michael

• Writing World History in Tsarist Russia and in the Soviet Union

  p. 197

  Bohn, Thomas M.

• World Power and World History : Writing the British Empire, 1885-1945

  p. 213

  Stuchtey, Benedikt

• Fitting Africa into World History : A Historiographical Exploration

  p. 255

  Eckert, Andreas

• Provincializing the West : World History from the Perspective of Indian History

  p. 271

  Lal, Vinay

• The 'Middle Kingdom' Struggles to Survive : The Chinese Worldview in the Nineteenth Century

  p. 291

  Mak, Ricardo K. S.

• High Anxiety : World History as Japanese Self-Discovery

  p. 309

  Thomas, Julia Adeney

• The Opened and the Closed Country : Conflicting Views of Japan's Position in the World

  p. 327

  Conrad, Sebastian

• Notes on Contributors

  p. 353

  Stuchtey, Benedikt; Fuchs, Eckhardt

• Index

  p. 359

  Stuchtey, Benedikt; Fuchs, Eckhardt