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Oct. 8 Global History: Economic and Environmental Thinking Big ...

Source: ocw.mit.edu
Topic: Economic History

Sort Desciption: of McNeill's world history textbook. This gives special privilege to the. European domination of military and economic power after 1500. To be ...

Content Inside: Oct. 8 Global History: Economic and Environmental Thinking Big: The World of World History William McNeill The Pursuit of Power Eric Hobsbawm The Age of Extremes Bruce Mazlish and Ralph Buultjens eds. Conceptualizing Global History see articles by Wolf Schafer and Raymond Grew Issues of Journal of World History Mark Kishlansky Patrick Geary Patricia O'Brien R. Bin Wong Societies and Cultures in World History (1995) Recommended: William McNeill Plagues and Peoples Paul Kennedy The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers David Kaiser Politics and War Fernand Braudel Capitalism and Material Life 1500-1800 (3 vols. especially look at volume 1) Charles Tilly Huge Structures Big Comparisons. (reviews and critiques some of the above works) No subfield of history is more needed or more problematic than world history. Many historians now recognize the need to transcend national boundaries in their work and there is a growing public demand for synthesis on the grand scale to make sense of major trends in global society. These syntheses (like Paul Kennedy) if they gain best-sellerdom attract lots of praise and brickbats. Why is there such resistance from professional historians? We should never underestimate the "red-eye disease" as the Chinese put it: sheer envy of the wealth and fame of a colleague. But are there other less apparently sordid grounds for reservations? I'll discuss three problems: 1) Problems of definition; 2) Problems of sources; 3) Problems of narrative and analytic structure with reference to recent major works of Braudel McNeill Kennedy and others. First definition. Should a world history include everything? If that's impossible how do we decide what to leave out? The tempting solution is "UNESCO history" : a grand project organized in the 1950s that tried to give equal opportunity to every nation. It didn't work too well. The overall result was too diffuse. The other extreme is The Rise of the West: the title of McNeill's wo ...

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