Rethinking World History: Essays On Europe, Islam, And World History
/ Marshall G.S. Hodgson
; Edited , With An Introduction And Conclusion By Edmund Burke, III
Cambridge; New York
: Cambridge University Press
, 1993.
xxi, 328p.
Studies in comparative world history
Code E.Book: 5980
The interrelations of societies in history; In the center of the map: Nations see themselves as the hub of history; World history and a world outlook; The great Western Transmutation; Historical method in civilizational studies; On doing world history; The role of Islam in world history; Cultural patterning in Islamdom and the Occident; The unity of later Islamic history; Modernity and the Islamic heritage; The objectivity of large-scale historical inquiry: Its peculiar limits and requirements; Conditions of historical comparison among ages and regions: The limitations of their validity; Interregional studies as integrating the historical disciplines: The practical implications of an interregional orientation for scholars and for the public.