Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Part I Premodern Historical Thought 19
1 History as a Way of Remembering the Past: Early India 21Romila Thapar
2 Classical Chinese Historical Thought 34Michael Puett
3 The Romance of the Middle Ages: Discovering the Past in Early Modern Japan 47Thomas Keirstead
4 Buddhist Worlds 63Ian Harris
5 Premodern Arabic/Islamic Historical Writing 78Tarif Khalidi
6 Ottoman Historical Thought 92Gottfried Hagen and Ethan L. Menchinger
7 "Premodern" Pasts: South Asia 107Rosalind O’Hanlon
8 History, Exile, and Counter-History: Jewish Perspectives 122Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
Part II Historiographies 137
9 The Legacy of Greece and Rome 139Freyja Cox Jensen
10 America and Global Historical Thought in the Early Modern Period 153Karen Ordahl Kupperman
11 European Societies and their Norms in the Process of Expansion: The Iberian Cases 169Jean-Frédéric Schaub
12 The Global in Enlightenment Historical Thought 184Jennifer Pitts
13 Hegel, Marx, and World History 197Andrew Sartori
14 The World of Modern Japanese Historiography: Tribulations and Transformations in Historical Approaches 213Curtis Anderson Gayle
15 Critical Theories of Modernity 228Viren Murthy
16 On the Compatibility of Chinese and European History: A Marxist Approach 243Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
17 Modern Historiography in Southeast Asia: The Case of Thailand’s Royal-Nationalist History 257Thongchai Winichakul
18 Historical Thought in the Other America 269Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
19 Histories of History in South Asia 293Prathama Banerjee
20 Modern Historiography – Arab World 308Alexis Wick
21 The Burden of Peculiarity: History and Historical Thought in Africa 321Andreas Eckert
Part III G lobal Histories and New Directions 335
22 Oceanic History 337Michael Pearson
23 Environmental History and World History: Parallels, Intersections, and Tensions 351Kenneth Pomeranz
24 Dependency Theory and World-Systems Analysis 369Ravi Arvind Palat
25 Empires and Imperialism 384Prasenjit Duara
26 Histories of Globalization(s) 399Michael Lang
27 Comparative History and Its Critics: A Genealogy and a Possible Solution 412George Steinmetz
28 Women, Gender, and the Global 437Bonnie G. Smith
29 Indigenes and Settlers (Fourth World) 451Lorenzo Veracini
30 History, Memory, Justice 466Klaus Neumann
31 Beyond the Nation: Textbook Controversies and Contestations in a Globalizing World 482Hanna Schissler
Index 496