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The First Civilizations And The Rise Of Empires -- Ancient India -- China In Antiquity -- The Civilization Of The Greeks -- The Roman World Empire -- The Americas -- Ferment In The Middle East: The Rise Of Islam -- Early Civilizations In Africa -- The Expansion Of Civilization In South And Southeast Asia -- The Flowering Of Traditional China -- The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, And Vietnam -- The Making Of Europe -- The Byzantine Empire And Crisis And Recovery In The West -- New Encounters: The Creation Of A World Market -- Europe Transformed: Reform And State Building -- The Muslim Empires -- The East Asian World -- The West On The Eve Of A New World Order.

This article discusses the challenges and constraints on the way toward more ecumenical forms of world historical scholarship. Refuting the charge that world history is necessarily Eurocentric in nature, the article points out that it is impossible to discuss intercultural conceptions of world history without touching on the international structures, flows, and hierarchies that characterize the field. The article argues that several transformations within the social sciences and humanities may prove to be relevant for transcultural and world history. The article concludes that internationally convincing perspectives can be gained only if the international landscapes of historiography become more ecumenical.

"Here is a marvelous compact history of Japan from earliest times to the present focusing on Japan's relationships with the rest of the world. In lively prose rooted in observations by people who lived the history, the work highlights the contributions of a wide range of acetors: women as well as men, commoners as well as elites"--Publisher supplied summary

Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of Europe in world history. He argues that the line that connects Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance to modern times is an optical illusion, and that a global and Asia-centred history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. Hodgson then shifts the historical focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilisation in a world historical framework. In so doing he concludes that there is but one history - global history - and that all partial or privileged accounts must necessarily be resituated in a world historical context. The book also includes an introduction by the editor, Edmund Burke, contextualising Hodgson's work in world history and Islamic history

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Bodies, Empires, and World Histories -- I. Thresholds of Modernity: Mapping Genders -- Masculinity and the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad -- An Island of Women: Gender in Qing Travel Writing about Taiwan -- Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500–1770 -- Christian Morality in New Spain: The Nahua Woman in the Franciscan Imaginary -- Eva's Men: Gender and Power at the Cape of Good Hope -- Colonial Bodies, Hygiene, and Abolitionist Politics in Eighteenth-Century France -- II. Global Empires, Local Encounters -- Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo -- Reproducing Colonialism in British Columbia, 1849–1871 -- Native American and Métis Women as ''Public Mothers'' in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest -- Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere -- Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884–1916 -- Reproducing the ''French Race'': Immigration and Pronatalism in Early-Twentieth-Century France -- Race Hysteria, Darwin 1938 -- Tattooed Secrets: Women's History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique -- III. The Mobility of Politics and the Politics of Mobility -- An Ottoman Occidentalist in Europe: Ahmed Midhat Meets Madame Gülnar, 1889 -- Out of India: The Journeys of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901–1930 -- Celibacy, Sexuality, and Nationalism in North India -- Women's Liberation and Islam in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1926–1941 -- Gender, Power, and U.S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952 -- History and Memory: The ''Comfort Women'' Controversy -- ''One Black Allah'': The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955–1970 -- Postscript: Bodies, Genders, Empires: Reimagining World Histories -- Index

World history can provide a context for regional and national histories, but what is
the context for world history itself? If world history is about the history of human
beings, asking this question means asking about the place of human beings within modern
knowledge. While most traditional cosmologies put humans at the center of the
picture, the temporal and spatial scales of modern science are so vast that humans can
seem to vanish entirely. Yet if we order the contents of our universe by complexity
rather than by size or longevity, things look different. This paper explores arguments
suggesting that human societies and their evolution may be among the most complex
objects available for scientific study. Such conclusions hint at the significance of world
history beyond the history profession and also suggest the extraordinary difficulty of the
challenges world historians face.

In "Aging in World History", David G. Troyansky presents the first global history of aging. At a time when demographic aging has become a source of worldwide concern, and more people are reaching an advanced age than ever before, the history of old age helps us understand how we arrived at the treatment of aging in the modern world. This concise volume expands that history beyond the West to show how attitudes toward aging, the experiences of the aged, and relevant demographic patterns have varied and coalesced over time and across the world. From the ancient world to the present, this book introduces students and general readers to the history of aging on two levels: the experience of individual men and women, and the transformation of populations. With its attention to cultural traditions, medicalization, decades of historical scholarship, and current gerontology, "Aging in World History" is the perfect starting point for an exploration of this increasingly universal aspect of human experience.

1. World history : a history of the world? -- 2. A human world : humans and humankind -- 3. A natural world : ecology, energy and growth -- 4. An agrarian world : farmers, agriculture and food -- 5. A political world : governance and rulers -- 6. A divine world : culture, civilizations and religions -- 7. A divided world : The west and The rest -- 8. A global world : globalization or globalizations? -- 9. A polarized world : development, poverty and inequality -- 10. A fragmented world : unity and fragmentation.