World Histories From Below: Disruption and Dissent, 1750 to the Present

by Antoinette Burton

Overview

An emphasis on global structures and forces tends to privilege elites and their accomplishments, especially in the grand narratives of student textbooks. This book is an antidote to such studies and places 'ordinary' people and subordinated subjects at the heart of its analysis, arguing that disruption and dissent are overlooked agents of historical change. The contributors range from leaders in the field to rising stars, and cover themes including:

- religious conversions
- political revolutions
- labor struggles
- body politics.

Each chapter takes a global view of the topic at hand, creating an accessible study of its subject from 1750 to the present day. World Histories From Below has the potential to refocus our entire approach to teaching world history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901472587632
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/20/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, USA. Her recent publications include A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles (2012) and Brown over Black: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation (2012).

Tony Ballantyne is Professor of History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His recent publications include Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand's Colonial Past (2012) and (edited with Antoinette Burton) Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire (2009).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Keywords: “World History,” “Below,” and “Dissent and Disruption” Antoinette Burton University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and Tony Ballantyne (University of Otago, New Zealand)
1. Modern Political Revolutions: Connecting Grassroots Political Dissent and Global Historical Transformations M.J. Maynes and Ann Waltner (both University of Minnesota, USA)
2. International and Global Anti-Colonial Movements Heather Streets-Salter (Northeastern University, USA)
3. Insurgent Citizenships: Armed Rebellions and Everyday Acts of Resistance in the Global South Eileen M. Ford (California State University, Los Angeles, USA)
4. Body Politics, Sexualities, and the “Modern Family” in Global History Durba Ghosh (Cornell University, USA)
5. The Persistence of the Gods: Religion in the Modern World Tony Ballantyne
6. Global Mobilities Clare Anderson (Leicester University, UK)
7. The Anthropocene from Below Nancy J. Jacobs (Brown University, USA), Danielle Johnstone and Christopher Kelly
Index

Editorial Reviews

Most of the chapters in this fine collection would work very well in the undergraduate classroom … Each chapter chooses a small group of examples or moments to focus on, with brief mention of others, so students won't get buried in a mass of names and dates. The book as a whole could be assigned in thematic upper-level or graduate courses, both for its content and for the examples that the chapters provide about how to write comparative and world/global history on a specific topic in a research-paper length format. Because many of its examples are not ones often discussed, more advanced scholars of world history would gain by reading the book as well.” - World History Connected

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