The Oxford handbook of world history
The Oxford handbook of world history
Al proponer una historia de las representaciones como alternativa a la historia de las mentalidades, el autor abre nuevas perspectivas para la comprensión de la multiciplidad y diferenciación de la práctica cultural en la era moderna, que es una era del texto. En ejemplos concre…
Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories, featuring contributions by an international group of scholars working in many di…
"Thinking History Globally means thinking about the past and the present beyond national borders, language barriers, and enclosed regions. There are four thinking strategies to gain global perspectives: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing. Comparing is ab…
"The essays focus on 'frontiers' in multiple contexts, all relating to John F. Richards's work: frontiers and state building, frontiers and environmental change, cultural frontiers, frontiers and trade and drugs, and frontiers and world history"--Del editor.
"The age of exploration exposed the limits of available universal histories. Everyday interactions with cultures and societies across the globe brought to light a multiplicity of pasts which proved difficult to reconcile with an emerging sense of unity in the world. Among the fi…
