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Global Practice in World History - Advances Worldwide (Paperback)
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This volume presents the thinking and the activities of some of the
most serious and successful practitioners of world history. The
fifteen contributors are experience historians from ten countries
dispersed across five continents. Their essays confirm the
experience of an emerging worldwide discourse on the past of our
planet, but they also reveal the distinctive conditions and local
innovations of global historians in different parts of the world.
They give particularly attention to the emergence of formal
institutions for study of world history. University departments,
research institutes, international conferences, and the leaders of
museums are now demonstrably involved in full-scale study of the
human past at a global level. Work in these institutions will
surely reveal new patterns, dispel some old beliefs, provoke
debates, and demonstrate the need for still more research.The book
begins with the official report of the World History Research
Agenda Symposium. This unusual conference (held in Nov 2006 in
Boston) launched the formal discussion of priorities in
world-historical research. In seven further chapters, the authors
describe university level study of world history at undergraduate
and especially graduate levels, conveying some remarkable advances
in conceptualization of the global past and explaining the
curricula they have implemented for directing students in world
historical research. The final four chapters turn to the other
institutions that support the development of advanced study in
world history: journals, museums, and research institutes. Here the
authors document the organizational innovations that have brought
discussion of world-historical issues to wider audiences.This is
the second volume in a series on research in world history,
produced by the World History Network Inc. The previous volume,
""World History: Global and Local Interactions"" displayed the
accomplishments of PhD students and graduates whose research
focuses on topics in world history.
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