...This concluding chapter redefines “modern Chinese history” as an ongoing, open-ended course in order to make sense of the grand process of transformation that China is experiencing in the twenty-first century and of its significance in world history and to extend the time span of modern China...

...This essay explores the relationship between academic training in history and teaching world history. Historians are almost always trained to do original archival research, which generally leads to detailed, but narrow, studies. When they are hired into academic positions, they are required...

... Caribbean post Columbian food globalization iguana ships world history creolization Anghiera Peter Martyr d’ Taino peoples Chanca Diego Álvarez Columbus Christopher Drake Francis Du Tertre Jean Baptiste Oviedo Gonzalo Fernandez de France Labat Jean Baptiste La Varenne L’Yver Charles de...

... maritime realm highly unusual in world history, focusing on the maritime prohibitions of China, Korea, and Japan. It also discusses state policies in four distinct periods of East Asian maritime history: the 1500s, stretching from circa 1523 until 1567; flourishing trade between about 1570 and the 1620s...

...This chapter explores the boundaries of world history and Jerry Bentley’s role as a guardian of those boundaries and of their porosity. Drawing on Bentley’s statements and choices as editor of the Journal of World History, the author asks questions about the field’s historical...

...This essay considers the place of world history within the larger disciplinary practices of historical inquiry. Disciplinary traditions of deep specialization are in tension with world historians’ interest in broad patterns and long time scales, which leads some scholars—especially those...

... fisheries Medina Sidonia ducal monopoly world history world history in academic institutions historical linguistics iguana Journal of Global History Journal of World History protection discourses world history boundaries around Enlightenment ICC International Criminal Court International Criminal...

... exceptionalism signifies a conceptual threat to it as well. The transnational and comparative studies that are at the heart of the field of world history perform a similar function, but they do so in ways that reinforce the hierarchical epistemology that produced exceptionalism in the first place. At the same...

...This volume responds to provocations that Jerry Bentley tendered in his scholarship and through his professional activities. The collection interrogates the institutional settings, disciplinary proclivities, methodological choices, and diverse source bases of world history research and teaching...