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Full Title

Rethinking World History Essays on Europe, Islam and World History 1st Edition

Author(s)

Marshall G. S. Hodgson

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780511882081, 9780521432535, 9780521438445

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of Europe in world history. He argues that the line that connects Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance to modern times is an optical illusion, and that a global and Asia-centred history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. Hodgson then shifts the historical focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilisation in a world historical framework. In so doing he concludes that there is but one history – global history – and that all partial or privileged accounts must necessarily be resituated in a world historical context. The book also includes an introduction by the editor, Edmund Burke, contextualising Hodgson’s work in world history and Islamic history.