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Rethinking world history : essays on Europe, Islam, and world history / Marshall G.S. Hodgson ; edited, with an introduction and conclusion by Edmund Burke, III.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in comparative world historyPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.Description: xxi, 328 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521432537
  • 0521438446 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909 20
LOC classification:
  • D21.3 .H63 1993
Online resources:
Contents:
The interrelations of societies in history--In the center of the map: Nations see themselves as the hub of history--World History and a world outlook--The great Western Transmutation--Historical method in civilizational studies--On doing world history--The role of Islam in world history--Cultural patterning in Islamdom and the Occident--The unity of later Islamic history--Modernity and the Islamic heritage--The objectivity of large-scale historical inquiry: Its peculiar limits and requirements--Conditions of historical comparison among ages and regions: The limitations of their validity--Interregional studies as intergrating the historical disciplines: The practical implications of an interregional orientation for scholars and for the public--Conclusion: Islamic history as world history.
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Books Books Zetech Library - Mang'u General Stacks Non-fiction D21.3 .H63 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Z011036

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The interrelations of societies in history--In the center of the map: Nations see themselves as the hub of history--World History and a world outlook--The great Western Transmutation--Historical method in civilizational studies--On doing world history--The role of Islam in world history--Cultural patterning in Islamdom and the Occident--The unity of later Islamic history--Modernity and the Islamic heritage--The objectivity of large-scale historical inquiry: Its peculiar limits and requirements--Conditions of historical comparison among ages and regions: The limitations of their validity--Interregional studies as intergrating the historical disciplines: The practical implications of an interregional orientation for scholars and for the public--Conclusion: Islamic history as world history.

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