What is Global History? (What is History?) Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Crossley, Pamela Kyle
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- Title What is Global History? (What is History?)
- Author Crossley, Pamela Kyle
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 152
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press
- Date 2008-03-03
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0745633005.G
- ISBN 9780745633008 / 0745633005
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.51 x 5.91 x 0.64 in (21.62 x 15.01 x 1.63 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects World history, Weltgeschichte
- Library of Congress Catalog Number D20
- Dewey Decimal Code 909
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Others are social and cultural, touching upon issues of migration, trade, language development and differentiation, institutions of enslavement and of freedom, traditions of marriage and child-rearing, the emergence of large-scale political organization from early kingdoms to vast empires, republics and federations, and the management of war and peace.
To deal with such challenging issues, global historians draw upon new techniques of analysis and comparison. But they also continue venerable traditions, inherited from the earliest civilizations, of narrating the past on the most comprehensive and significant scale possible.
This book examines the long search for an integrated human story, and particularly the points at which rapid changes of philosophy and perspective in the twentieth century transformed the historical disciplines. It provides the perfect introduction to global history for students and scholars alike.