The global Middle Ages : an introduction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heng, Geraldine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Cambridge elements. Elements in the global Middle Ages
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Table of Contents:
  • The introductory elements of the Global Middle Ages series
  • All good things have a beginning : the when, how, and what of the "Global Middle Ages"
  • "An idea whose time has come" : why the global turn in premodern studies matters
  • Rethinking time, scientific and industrial revolutions, modernity, and premodernity
  • Attending to local, national, regional, global : the politics of intertwined, interlocking scales of relation
  • What is early globalism? The world, the globe, and the planet, part one
  • What's in a name? The European "Middle Ages," the "Global Middle Ages," and premodern time around the globe
  • Why periodization still matters : acknowledging epistemic shifts and differences across time
  • Globalization, globalism, world systems : the planet, the globe, and the world, part two
  • Globalization : a name for today, but not for all time
  • World-systems : the why, the when, and the what
  • Worlds of differences : the Cambridge Elements in the Global Middle Ages : collaboration, experimentation, and an open-ended process.