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World History: Ideologies, Structures, and Identities (review)

World History: Ideologies, Structures, and Identities (review) 350 journal of world history, fall 2000 World History: Ideologies, Structures and Identities. Edited by philip pomper , richard h. elphick, and richard t. vann. Malden, Mass. and Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 1998. Pp. ix + 286. $66.95 (cloth); $33.95 (paper). We have here a very valuable collection that must help anyone to clarify what world history is. This is by no means a hegemonic book, where we end up being told how to “do” world history. To the contrary, the collection is particularly useful because it represents so many points of view, and thus will stimulate discussion and no doubt rebut- tal from practitioners of very divergent versions of world history. I will now proceed to comment seriatim on the offerings. The volume fittingly begins with a chapter from William H. Book Reviews 351 McNeill, who is generally considered to be the doyen of the field. In a typically graceful and lucid discussion, he sketches various historio- graphical traditions, and sees the way forward as being the study of “trans-civilizational encounters” (p. 27) based on the notion of ecu- menical history. He ends on a positive note, claiming that the field has a social purpose, for “constructing a perspicacious http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

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350 journal of world history, fall 2000 World History: Ideologies, Structures and Identities. Edited by philip pomper , richard h. elphick, and richard t. vann. Malden, Mass. and Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 1998. Pp. ix + 286. $66.95 (cloth); $33.95 (paper). We have here a very valuable collection that must help anyone to clarify what world history is. This is by no means a hegemonic book, where we end up being told how to “do” world history. To the contrary, the collection is particularly useful because it represents so many points of view, and thus will stimulate discussion and no doubt rebut- tal from practitioners of very divergent versions of world history. I will now proceed to comment seriatim on the offerings. The volume fittingly begins with a chapter from William H. Book Reviews 351 McNeill, who is generally considered to be the doyen of the field. In a typically graceful and lucid discussion, he sketches various historio- graphical traditions, and sees the way forward as being the study of “trans-civilizational encounters” (p. 27) based on the notion of ecu- menical history. He ends on a positive note, claiming that the field has a social purpose, for “constructing a perspicacious

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Journal of World History – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Oct 1, 2001

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