A Companion to World History presents over 30 essays from an international group of historians that both identify continuing areas of contention, disagreement, and divergence in world and global history, and point to directions for further debate.
Features a diverse cast of contributors that include established world historians and emerging scholars
Explores a wide range of topics and themes, including and the practice of world history, key ideas of world historians, the teaching of world history and how it has drawn upon and challenged "traditional" teaching approaches, and global approaches to writing world history
Places an emphasis on non-Anglophone approaches to the topic
Considers issues of both scholarship and pedagogy on a transnational, interregional, and world/global scale
INTRODUCTION - The Challenge of World History
Chapter 2: Why and How I Became a World Historian
Chapter 3: Becoming a World Historian
Chapter 4: The World Is Your Archive?
Chapter 5: What Are the Units of World History?
Chapter 6: Meetings of World History and Public History
Chapter 7: Challenges of Teaching and Learning World History
Chapter 8: Teaching World History at the College Level
Chapter 9: Environments, Ecologies, and Cultures across Space and Time
Chapter 12: Global Scale Analysis in Human History
Chapter 13: Region in Global History
Chapter 15: Comparative History and the Challenge of the Grand Narrative
Chapter 16: The Science of Difference
Chapter 18: The Body in/as World History
Chapter 19: Benchmarks of Globalization
Chapter 20: Networks, Interactions, and Connective History
Chapter 23: Religious Ideas in Motion
Chapter 24: Diseases in Motion
Chapter 26: The World from Oceania
Chapter 27: The World from China
Chapter 28: Historicizing the World in Northeast Asia
Chapter 29: Writing Global History in Africa
Chapter 30: Islamicate World Histories?
Chapter 31: The World from Latin America and the Peripheries
Chapter 32: (Re)Writing World Histories in Europe