Architects of World History : Researching the Global Past.

Intro -- Architects of World History: Researching the Global Past -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Architects of World History -- "Architects" of World History -- Paths to World History -- Foundational Texts -- Architects and the Scholarship of World History -- References -- 2 En Route to World Environmental History -- Environmental History -- Choosing History -- Floundering Toward World History -- Floundering Toward Environmental History -- Teaching and Scholarship Intertwine -- Going Global in Environmental History -- A Curious Collaboration -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 3 Gender Intersections -- My Own Journey -- The Development of Women's and Gender History -- Complicating Categories -- Gender History and Global History -- Gender/Global Intersections -- 4 No Great Divergence? Reaching World History Through East Asian Studies -- Discovering History, Academia, and China -- Graduate School: Lots of Dots, Not Yet Connected -- Semi-Conscious (At Best) Steps Toward World History -- An Accidental World Historian -- Teaching World History -- Institution-Building -- Conclusions -- 5 Cultural and Religious Exchanges -- Relating Chinese and European History to Each Other -- Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christians and Their Global Contexts -- Global History, Globally or World History as a Worldwide Endeavor -- Acknowledgment -- 6 Law and World History -- Law and the History of Capitalism -- The History of Power -- A Global Legal Regime -- Looking Back, Looking Forward -- 7 Africa in the World: From National Histories to Global Connections -- Old Societies and New States: Africa and the Emergence of the Modern World -- African History in the World -- African Studies in South Africa -- "People's History" and the History of Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa -- Comparative and Connective Histories.

Becoming a World Historian -- African History and Oceanic History -- 8 Big History -- What Is Big History? -- A Personal Pathway to Big History -- Embedding Human History in the History of the Universe -- Big History and the Evolution of Historical Thought: The Return of Universal History -- Big History Today -- 9 In Search of a Global Cultural History -- Foreword -- Finding Focus -- Finding Focus: Cultural History -- Finding Focus: Global Cultural History -- References -- Index.

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