World History - A Genealogy : Private Conversations with World Historians, 1996-2016 /
World History-A Genealogy charts the history of the discipline through twenty-five in-depth conversations with historians whose work has shaped the field of world history in fundamental ways. These conversations, which took place over a period of twenty years for the world history journal Itinerario...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Leiden :
Leiden University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Facing World History: inspirations, institutions, networks
- Interviews
- Interview with Brij V. Lal, Historian of Indenture and of Contemporary Fiji
- 'I end up with the question "why", but I don't start with it': Interview with Geoffrey Parker
- The Importance of Knowledge-Systems: Interview with John Rankine Goody
- The Best of Two Worlds: Interview with Om Prakash
- The Study of Contrasts across Europe: Interview with Patrick O'Brien
- History is Placing a Man in the Context of his Times: Interview with the Late Ashin Das Gupta (1932-1998)
- 'I didn't get into history to avoid math or physics': Interview with Patricia Seed, Professor of Rice University
- A Sea of Histories, a History of the Seas: Interview with Adrian B. Lapian
- Sympathetic 'Farangi': Interview with Michael N. Pearson
- Why Is China So Big? And Other Big Questions: Interview with John E. Wills, Jr.
- Slavery, Migration and the Atlantic World: Interview with Piet Emmer
- 'I am not going to call myself a global historian': Interview with C.A. Bayly
- The Retreat of the Elephants: Interview with Mark Elvin
- Wanting to know everything in a complex world: Interview with Allison Blakely
- Transoceanic Trade: The Reconstruction of Al-Mukhâ through VOC Records: Interview with C.G. Brouwer
- World History and Other Marginal and Perverse Pursuits: Interview with Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
- Studying Southeast Asia in and for Southeast Asia: Interview with Anthony Reid
- The Red-Haired Barbarian from Leiden: Interview with Leonard Blussé
- You turn a page and then there is suddenly something on a turtle': Interview with Jürgen Osterhammel
- Are We All Global Historians Now?: Interview with David Armitage
- Lessons from African History: between the deep and the shallow ends of social theory and historical empiricism. Interview with Frederick Cooper
- 'Being speculative is better than to not do it at all': Interview with Natalie Zemon Davis
- Map-Making in World History: Interview with Kären Wigen
- 'My favourite source is the landscape': Interview with Robert Ross
- History as Renegade Politics: Interview with Ann Laura Stoler
- Bibliography of World Historians
- Bibliography of World History