Rethinking World History: Essays On Europe, Islam, And World History
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Marshall G.S. Hodgson
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
; Edited , With An Introduction And Conclusion By Edmund Burke, III
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 1993.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxi, 328p.
SERIES
Series Title
Studies in comparative world history
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Code E.Book: 5980
Text of Note
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.