Title: A companion to world history /
Authors: Northrop, Douglas Taylor; Northrop, Douglas Taylor.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell,
Year: 2012
Subjects: History Methodology; History Study and teaching; Historiography; HISTORY / World.
Abstract: "A Companion to World History presents over 30 essays from an international group of historians that both identify continuing areas of contention, disagreement, and divergence in world and global history, and point to directions for further debate. Features a diverse cast of contributors that include established world historians and emerging scholars Explores a wide range of topics and themes, including and the practice of world history, key ideas of world historians, the teaching of world history and how it has drawn upon and challenged "traditional" teaching approaches, and global approaches to writing world history Places an emphasis on non-Anglophone approaches to the topic Considers issues of both scholarship and pedagogy on a transnational, interregional, and world/global scale "--
Contents: Introduction: The Challenge of World History / Douglas Northrop -- 1. World History: Departures and Variations / Kenneth Pomeranz and Daniel Segal -- 2. Why and How I Became a World Historian / Dominic Sachsenmaier -- 3. Becoming a World Historian: The State of Graduate Training in World History and Placement in the Academic World / Heather Streets-Salter -- 4. The World is Your Archive? The Challenges of World History as a Field of Research / Barbara Weinstein -- 5. What Are the Units of World History? / Adam McKeown -- 6. Meetings of World History and Public History / Leslie Witz -- 7. Challenges of Teaching and Learning World History / Robert B. Bain -- 8. Teaching World History at the College Level / Trevor Getz -- 9. Environments, Ecologies and Cultures across Space and Time / I.G. Simmons --