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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      May 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511626104
      9780521432535
      9780521438445
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511626104
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 354 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.465kg, 356 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Middle East History
      Series:
      Studies in Comparative World History
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Middle East History
    Series:
    Studies in Comparative World History
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    Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of Europe in world history. He argues that the line that connects Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance to modern times is an optical illusion, and that a global and Asia-centred history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. Hodgson then shifts the historical focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilisation in a world historical framework. In so doing he concludes that there is but one history - global history - and that all partial or privileged accounts must necessarily be resituated in a world historical context. The book also includes an introduction by the editor, Edmund Burke, contextualising Hodgson's work in world history and Islamic history.

    Reviews

    "The pieces collected here show perceptive and rigorously developed insights into the problems of writing world history." Edwin J. Van Kley, Journal of Asian Studies

    "Although several decades have elapsed since they were written, these writings offer immense contemporary value for both general historians and scholars of Islam. Besides providing a compendium of the principal thought of an eminent historian and Islamicist, Rethinking World History broadens the range of scholarly vision, presents a stimulating alternative to the frequent insularism of academic specialization and makes an important contribution to the overall understanding of human history." Brian Johnson, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin

    "...useful for anyone interested in the discipline of world history." J.A. Progler, Crescent

    "As today's world historians struggle with conceptual designs for courses and textbooks, they should pay attention to the lessons Hodgson taught....One delights in his piercing insights, his acerbic wit, and the amazing range of his thought...." Rose E. Dunn, Journal of World History

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