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  • Analyzing World History
    Navigating World History, 2003
    Co-Authors: Patrick Manning
    Abstract:

    There does exist a characteristic method for analyzing World History. As widely as studies in World History may vary in the topics and disciplines of their research, they retain a certain commonality in their underlying approach, which distinguishes them in method and not only in scope from studies at localized and specialized levels. After exploring many of the specifics in global analysis in chapters 15 through 17, I offer in this chapter a summary statement on analyzing World History. Logic, data, and carefully selected language, used in different ways, provide the materials for the six steps I have identified in preparing a global historical interpretation.

  • Researching World History
    Navigating World History, 2003
    Co-Authors: Patrick Manning
    Abstract:

    The greatest need in the field of World History is that for original research. Whether carried out on a large scale or small, whether based on local library research or on extended field research, new research in World History will help the field get past the current logjam in which it is bound, in which sequences of local studies are made to stand in for analysis of connections across space and time. The highest level of World-historical research will require teams of experts, including broadly based and cosmopolitan scholars. But as in every other field of intellectual endeavor, the work of the most sophisticated analysts advances only in intimate interconnection with scholars and observers working in less specialized fashion or with smaller amounts of resources. Research in World History takes place at all levels. In one sense it is just more historical research. In another sense, crossing all those boundaries makes it different.

  • Defining World History
    Navigating World History, 2003
    Co-Authors: Patrick Manning
    Abstract:

    To put it simply, World History is the story of connections within the global human community. The World historian’s work is to portray the crossing of boundaries and the linking of systems in the human past. The source material ranges in scale from individual family tales to migrations of peoples to narratives encompassing all humanity. World History is far less than the sum total of all History. Nevertheless, it adds to our accumulated knowledge of the past through its focus on connections among historical localities, time periods, and themes of study.

  • Conclusion: Tasks in World History
    Navigating World History, 2003
    Co-Authors: Patrick Manning
    Abstract:

    The field of World History continues its spontaneous and somewhat disorderly expansion.1 Should this laissez-faire approach of scholars continue, it will probably allow more such incremental growth and a gradual clarification of the specific contributions that can come from a global approach to History. My experience, however, is that a purposeful campaign of developing World-historical insights can speed up the process greatly. Much of my argument centers on a call for the establishment of comprehensive institutions for research, study, and teaching in World History, to facilitate accelerated learning.

  • The Problem of Interactions in World History.
    The American Historical Review, 1996
    Co-Authors: Patrick Manning
    Abstract:

    JERRY BENTLEY, in proposing a periodization of World History, offers us more than a set of periods. He defends a specific criterion for evaluating World-historical change, develops his set of periods out of that criterion, and utilizes the periods to suggest long-term interpretations of History. His criterion focuses on cross-cultural interaction. More precisely, he identifies three main kinds of processes (mass migration, empire building, and long-distance trade) as having had "significant repercussions across the boundary lines of societies and cultural regions." In applying his criterion to develop a periodization, Bentley relies on documented changes in the scale and character of these three "kinds of processes" to identify six major periods in the History of the Afro-Eurasian land mass.1 Then, within the framework of this periodization, he offers a narrative of periodic expansion in scale and transformation in character of cross-cultural interactions. The latter point is worthy of underscoring: if Bentley's interpretation focused mainly on expansions in the scale of cross-cultural contacts, we would have yet another narrative of progress. Instead, he sidesteps a linear interpretation of World History by emphasizing successive changes in the character of cross-cultural interactions along with their growing magnitude.2 I find Bentley's presentation to be elegant and comprehensive, and I am inclined to accept cross-cultural interaction as an appropriate criterion for periodizing World History. But the implications of Bentley's scheme may be broader than they first appear.3 For if one accepts cross-cultural interaction as the criterion for periodization in World History, one tends at the same time to accept such interactions as the main subject matter of World History. This big step requires some discussion.

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