Rethinking world history : essays on Europe, Islam, and world history /
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Cambridge, England ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Studies in comparative world history
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Table of Contents:
- Editor's preface
- Introduction: Marshall G. S. Hodgson and world history Edmund Burke, III
- Part I. Europe in a global context: 1. The interrelations of societies in history ; 2. In the center of the map: nations see themselves as the hub of history ; 3. World history and world outlook ; 4. The great Western Transmutation ; 5. Historical method in civilizational studies ; 6. On doing world history
- Part II. Islam in a global context: 7. The role of Islam in world history ; 8. Cultural patterning in Islamdom and the Occident ; 9. The unity of later Islamic history ; 10. Modernity and the Islamic heritage
- Part III. The discipline of world history: 11. The objectivity of large-scale historical inquiry: its peculiar limits and requirements ; 12. Conditions of historical comparison among ages and regions: the limitations of their validity ; 13. Interregional studies as integrating the historical disciplines: the practical implications of an interregional orientation for scholars and for the public
- Conclusion: Islamic history as world history: Marshall G. S. Hodgson and The Venture of Islam, Edmund Burke, III.