World History – a Genealogy: Private Conversations with World Historians, 1996-2016

Alicia Schrikker; Carolien Stolte

doi:10.24415/9789400602854

Search publication

Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2017
Copyright Year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-276-9
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0285-4
Publisher: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Language: English
Pages: 431
Product Type: Edited Book

Download chapter (PDF)
1. Contents
2. Preface
Facing World History: inspirations, institutions, networksPages 11 - 34
Authors:
Download chapter (PDF)
1. Interview with Brij V. Lal, Historian of Indenture and of Contemporary FijiPages 37 - 50 Download chapter (PDF)
2. ‘I end up with the question “why”, but I don’t start with it’: Interview with Geoffrey ParkerPages 51 - 64 Download chapter (PDF)
3. The Importance of Knowledge-Systems: Interview with John Rankine GoodyPages 65 - 80 Download chapter (PDF)
4. The Best of Two Worlds: Interview with Om PrakashPages 81 - 98 Download chapter (PDF)
5. The Study of Contrasts across Europe: Interview with Patrick O’BrienPages 99 - 118 Download chapter (PDF)
6. History is Placing a Man in the Context of his Times: Interview with the Late Ashin Das Gupta (1932–1998)Pages 119 - 124 Download chapter (PDF)
7. I didn’t get into history to avoid math or physics’: Interview with Patricia Seed, Professor of Rice UniversityPages 125 - 134 Download chapter (PDF)
8. A Sea of Histories, a History of the Seas: Interview with Adrian B. LapianPages 135 - 146 Download chapter (PDF)
9. Sympathetic ‘Farangi’: Interview with Michael N. PearsonPages 147 - 162 Download chapter (PDF)
10. Why Is China So Big? And Other Big Questions: Interview with John E. Wills, Jr.Pages 163 - 172 Download chapter (PDF)
11. Slavery, Migration and the Atlantic World: Interview with Piet EmmerPages 173 - 186 Download chapter (PDF)
12. ‘I am not going to call myself a global historian’: Interview with C.A. BaylyPages 187 - 196 Download chapter (PDF)
13. The Retreat of the Elephants: Interview with Mark ElvinPages 197 - 206 Download chapter (PDF)
14. Wanting to know everything in a complex world: Interview with Allison BlakelyPages 207 - 216 Download chapter (PDF)
15. Transoceanic Trade: The Reconstruction of Al-Mukhâ through VOC Records: Interview with C.G. BrouwerPages 217 - 230 Download chapter (PDF)
16. World History and Other Marginal and Perverse Pursuits: Interview with Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoPages 231 - 250 Download chapter (PDF)
17. Studying Southeast Asia in and for Southeast Asia: Interview with Anthony ReidPages 251 - 268 Download chapter (PDF)
18. The Red-Haired Barbarian from Leiden: Interview with Leonard BlusséPages 269 - 292 Download chapter (PDF)
19. You turn a page and then there is suddenly something on a turtle’: Interview with Jürgen OsterhammelPages 293 - 306 Download chapter (PDF)
20. Are We All Global Historians Now?: Interview with David ArmitagePages 307 - 336 Download chapter (PDF)
21. Lessons from African History: between the deep and the shallow ends of social theory and historical empiricism. Interview with Frederick CooperPages 337 - 352 Download chapter (PDF)
22. ‘Being speculative is better than to not do it at all’: Interview with Natalie Zemon DavisPages 353 - 368 Download chapter (PDF)
23. Map-Making in World History: Interview with Kären WigenPages 369 - 382 Download chapter (PDF)
24. ‘My favourite source is the landscape’: Interview with Robert RossPages 383 - 396 Download chapter (PDF)
25. History as Renegade Politics: Interview with Ann Laura StolerPages 397 - 410 Download chapter (PDF)
Bibliography of World HistoriansPages 411 - 420 Download chapter (PDF)
Bibliography of World HistoryPages 421 - 430 Download chapter (PDF)