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RR 2015/155 A Companion to Global Historical Thought Edited by Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthy and Andrew Sartori Wiley Blackwell Malden, MA and Oxford 2014 xi + 524 pp. ISBN 978 0 470 65899 4 (print); ISBN 978 1 118 52536 4 (e-book) £126 $200.95 (print); £113.99 $160.99 (e-book) Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
Keyword Historiography
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-02-2015-0026
Every day, we are confronted with a frenetic maelstrom of events from every comer of the world. To make any sense of the relentless changes, we need the long stare and the deep understanding of regional and big picture histories. Wiley Blackwell's A Companion to Global Historical Thought allows the reader to ponder both the processes and the products of the historian crafting narratives that convey perspective over societal and geographical distances. Wiley has published dozens of companions to national, regional and topical histories. Global history is an especially complex topic, and the authors started by clarifying "how the concept of the global is used in relation to historical thought"....