A Companion to World History [Hardcover]

• Features a diverse cast of contributors that include established world historians and emerging scholars
• Explores a wide range of topics and themes, including and the practice of world history, key ideas of world historians, the teaching of world history and how it has drawn upon and challenged traditional teaching approaches, and global approaches to writing world history
• Places an emphasis on non-Anglophone approaches to the topic
• Considers issues of both scholarship and pedagogy on a transnational, interregional, and world/global scale

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables x

Notes on Contributors xi

Editor’s Acknowledgments xviii

Introduction: The Challenge of World History 1
Douglas Northrop

PART I TRAJECTORIES AND PRACTICES 13

1 World History: Departures and Variations 15
Kenneth Pomeranz and Daniel A. Segal

2 Why and How I Became a World Historian 32
Dominic Sachsenmaier

Researching the world: techniques and methods 43

3 Becoming a World Historian: The State of Graduate Training in World History and Placement in the Academic World 45
Heather Streets-Salter

4 The World Is Your Archive? The Challenges of World History as a Field of Research 63
Barbara Wlk