Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History (Studies in Comparative World History) - Softcover

Hodgson, Marshall G. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521438446 ISBN 13: 9780521438445

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

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 Part One of this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G.S. Hodgson, a former professor of history at the University of Chicago, 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-centered history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. In Part Two of the work Hodgson shifts the focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilization in a world historical framework. Finally, in Part Three he argues that in the end 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 III, contextualizing Hodgson's work in world history and Islamic history.

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Book Description:

Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins? This text challenges adherents of Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the roles of Europe and Islamic civilization in 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 Part I of 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521438446
• ISBN 13: 9780521438445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Burke III Edmund