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World History--A Genealogy charts the history of the discipline through twenty-five in-depth conversations with historians whose work has shaped the field of world history in fundamental ways. These conversations, which took place over a period of twenty years for the world history journal Itinerario, cover these historians' lives, work, and views of the academy in general and the field of world history in particular. An extensive introduction distills the most important developments in the field from these conversations, and sheds light on what these historians have in common, as well as--perhaps more importantly--what separates them.

Historiography --- Methodology. --- General & world history --- World history --- Historians --- Historiography. --- Historiographers --- Scholars --- Universal history --- History --- Interviews --- World History

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This book explores the forces that impelled China, the world’s largest socialist state, to make massive changes in its domestic and international stance during the long 1970s. Fourteen distinguished scholars investigate the special, perhaps crucial part that the territory of Hong Kong played in encouraging and midwifing China’s relationship with the non-Communist world. The Long 1970s were the years when China moved dramatically and decisively toward much closer relations with the non-Communist world. In the late 1970s, China also embarked on major economic reforms, designed to win it great power status by the early twenty-first centuries. The volume addresses the long-term implications of China’s choices for the outcome of the Cold War and in steering the global international outlook toward free-market capitalism. Decisions made in the 1970s are key to understanding the nature and policies of the Chinese state today and the worldview of current Chinese leaders. .

World history. --- Universal history --- History --- Asia-History. --- History, Modern. --- Asian History. --- Modern History. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Asia—History.

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This is the first book to examine the process of railway development in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China from historical and comparative perspectives. Moreover, it discusses and compares the East Asian experiences of railway development with cases in Germany, which was a mainstay of railway development in Europe. After the opening of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century, the country achieved import substitution of locomotives in half a century. This book explores the social capability of Meiji Japan to overtake the advanced countries in railway technology. Parallel with the expansion of the Japanese empire, a large team of engineers constructed and operated the colonial government railways of Taiwan and Korea and the South Manchuria Railway. The book clearly outlines the education and training of these engineers. The management capabilities of the colonial railways and South Manchuria Railway were transferred to the postwar period, and such expertise supported the economic development of each country and region. These dramatic East Asian experiences of railway development are compared with European cases, mainly German railways.

Railroad engineering --- Engineering, Railroad --- Railroads --- Engineering --- Japan --- World history. --- Economic history. --- Economics. --- Economic History. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- History of Japan. --- History. --- Transportation engineering --- Japan-History. --- Universal history --- History --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Japan—History.

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What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized and interconnected world. Until now, most recent scholarship on empires has focused on their subject peoples. Visions of Empire looks at their rulers, shedding critical new light on who they were, how they justified their empires, how they viewed themselves, and the styles of rule they adopted toward their subjects.Krishan Kumar provides panoramic and multifaceted portraits of five major European empires-Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian/Soviet, British, and French-showing how each, like ancient Rome, saw itself as the carrier of universal civilization to the rest of the world. Sometimes these aims were couched in religious terms, as with Islam for the Ottomans or Catholicism for the Habsburgs. Later, the imperial missions took more secular forms, as with British political traditions or the world communism of the Soviets.Visions of Empire offers new insights into the interactions between rulers and ruled, revealing how empire was as much a shared enterprise as a clash of oppositional interests. It explores how these empires differed from nation-states, particularly in how the ruling peoples of empires were forced to downplay or suppress their own national or ethnic identities in the interests of the long-term preservation of their rule. This compelling and in-depth book demonstrates how the rulers of empire, in their quest for a universal world order, left behind a legacy of multiculturalism and diversity that is uniquely relevant for us today.

World history. --- World politics. --- Imperialism --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Universal history --- History

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Voici une histoire de France, de toute la France, en très longue durée. Une histoire qui mène de la grotte Chauvet aux événements de 2015, sans s'embarrasser de la question des origines. Une histoire qui prend au large le destin d'un pays qui n'existe pas séparément du monde, même si parfois il prétend l'incarner tout entier. Une histoire qui n'abandonne pas pour autant la chronologie ni le plaisir du récit, puisque c'est par dates qu'elle s'organise et que chaque date est traitée comme une petite intrigue. Réconciliant démarche critique et narration entraînante, l'ouvrage réunit un collectif d'historiennes et d'historiens, tous attachés à rendre accessible un discours engagé et savant. Son enjeu est clair : tout en revisitant les lieux de mémoire du récit national, il s'agit de déplacer, de dépayser et d'élargir notre histoire. Prendre la mesure d'une histoire mondiale de la France, c'est la rendre simplement plus riche et plus intéressante !

France --- History --- Histoire --- World history. --- History. --- Foreign relations. --- Universal history --- Histoire universelle. --- Diplomatic relations. --- France. --- Histoire. --- Relations extérieures. --- World history --- --Histoire --- --Relations extérieures --- --Monde --- --France --- Foreign relations --- 921 --- France histoire --- geschiedenis Europa --- histoire Europe --- Relations extérieures --- Monde --- France - History --- France - Foreign relations