Companion to Global Historical Thought

Prasenjit Duara is the Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of the Asia Research institute as well as Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900–1942 (1988), which won the Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, USA.Viren Murthy is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he specializes in Modern Chinese and Japanese intellectual history. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (2011). Andrew Sartori is Associate Professor of History at New york University, USA. He is co-editor of Global Intellectual History (with Samuel Moyn, 2013), the author of Bengal in Global Concept History (2008), and co-editor of From the Colonial to the Postcolonial (with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Rochona Majumdar, 2007). He is also co-editor of the journal Critical Historical Studies.

• Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Part I Premodern Historical Thought 191 History as a Way of Remembering the Past: Early India 21Romila Thapar2 Classical Chinese Historical Thought 34Michael Puett3 The Romance of the Middle Ages: Discovering the Past in Early Modern Japan 47Thomas Keirstead4 Buddhist Worlds 63Ian Harris5 Premodern Arabic/Islamic Historical Writing 78Tarif Khalidi6 Ottoman Historical Thought 92Gottfried Hagen and Ethan L. Menchinger7 "Premodern" Pasts: South Asia 107Rosalind O’Hanlon8 History, Exile, and Counter-History: Jewish Perspectives 122Amnon Raz-KrakotzkinPart II Historiographies 1379 The Legacy of Greece and Rome 139Freyja Cox Jensen10 America and Global Historical Thought in the Early Modern Period 153Karen Ordahl Kupperman11 European Societies and their Norms in the Process of Expansion: The Iberian Cases 169Jean-Frédéric Schaub12 The Global in Enlightenment Historical Thought 184Jennifer Pitts13 Hegel, Marx, and World History 197Andrew Sartori14 The World of Modern Japanese Historiography: Tribulations and Transformations in Historical Approaches 213Curtis Anderson Gayle15 Critical Theories of Modernity 228Viren Murthy16 On the Compatibility of Chinese and European History: A Marxist Approach 243Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik17 Modern Historiography in Southeast Asia: The Case of Thailand’s Royal-Nationalist History 257Thongchai Winichakul18 Historical Thought in the Other America 269Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo19 Histories of History in South Asia 293Prathama Banerjee20 Modern Historiography – Arab World 308Alexis Wick21 The Burden of Peculiarity: History and Historical Thought in Africa 321Andreas EckertPart III G lobal Histories and New Directions 33522 Oceanic History 337Michael Pearson23 Environmental History and World History: Parallels, Intersections, and Tensions 351Kenneth Pomeranz24 Dependency Theory and World-Systems Analysis 369Ravi Arvind Palat25 Empires and Imperialism 384Prasenjit Duara26 Histories of Globalization(s) 399Michael Lang27 Comparative History and Its Critics: A Genealogy and a Possible Solution 412George Steinmetz28 Women, Gender, and the Global 437Bonnie G. Smith29 Indigenes and Settlers (Fourth World) 451Lorenzo Veracini30 History, Memory, Justice 466Klaus Neumann31 Beyond the Nation: Textbook Controversies and Contestations in a Globalizing World 482Hanna SchisslerIndex 496

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