World History for International Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-8728-400-8
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm

Studying change in the course of human history, in different places, through the lens of a diverse set of core themes, World History for International Studies offers readers a set of windows into different debates historians have been conducting. Key themes, such as communication, trade, order, slavery, religion, war, identity, modernity, norms and ecology, are linked to specific world regions, which tell a story about how local ideas and individual contacts developed, started to overlap and became globally understood and used by ever larger groups of people. These themes are brought to life by a diverse set of key primary sources, such as a book, a letter, a medal, a temple and an epic, to showcase how historians have used sources to tell these stories and conduct debates. The book provides an introductory resource into the study of history and includes detailed suggestions for further study.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duyvesteyn, Isabelle

van der Wal, Anne Marieke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Foreword

Guide to Reading

About the Contributors

Introduction; What is World History? (Isabelle Duyvesteyn)

Introduction Part I: The Pre-Modern World > 1800 CE Communication; The Writing Revolution (Anne Marieke van der Wal)

Trade: The Ancient Silk Roads (Richard Griffiths)

Political Order: From Coercion to Constitution (Brian Shaev)

Slavery: Capitalism & Racism (Joris van den Tol and Anne Marieke van der Wal)

Religion; Perspective and Practice ( Jochem van den Boogert)

Introduction Part II: The Modern World < 1800 CE War; Disordering and Ordering (Isaac Scarborough)

Identity; From Traditional to Transnational (Arnout van Ree)

Modernity; Being Modern in a Changing World (Gina van Ling)

Human Rights; Norms and Policy (Mike Schmidli)

Ecology; From Local Resistance to Global Concern (Elisa Da Via, Judith Naeff and Anne Marieke van der Wal)

Conclusion; World History Today (Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Helen Steele)

Illustration credits

Index

Über Autor(innen)

van der Wal, Anne Marieke
Anne Marieke van der Wal is Assistant Professor African History and International Studies at Leiden University with a main interest in the history of South Africa, Indian Ocean Slavery and Slave Trade, and Memory and Subaltern history.

Duyvesteyn, Isabelle
Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Professor of International Studies / Global History at the Leiden University Institute for History