TY - BOOK AU - Curtis,Kenneth Robert AU - Bentley,Jerry H. TI - Architects of world history: researching the global past SN - 9781118294857 (cloth) AV - D 13 A673 2014 U1 - 907.2/022 PY - 2014/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, UK PB - John Wiley & Sons Inc. KW - World history KW - Historiography KW - Historians KW - Biography KW - Methodology KW - Historiografía KW - Historiadores KW - Biografías N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Architects of World History / Kenneth R. Curtis -- En Route to World Environmental History / J.R. McNeill -- Gender Intersections / Merry Wiesner-Hanks -- No Great Divergence : Reaching World History Through East Asian Studies / Kenneth Pomeranz -- Cultural and Religious Exchanges / Dominic Sachsenmaier -- Law and World History / Lauren Benton -- Africa in the World : From National Histories to Global Connections / Kerry Ward -- Big History / David Christian -- In Search of a Global Cultural History / Jerry Bentley with Karen Jolly N2 - "Architects of World History presents an innovative collection of original essays by leading scholars associated with World History, exploring through intellectual autobiography the ideas, challenges, and inspirations that are shaping the field. Features original, accessible contributions from pioneering scholars in the field. Offers insights into the process of developing a workable world history research topic and the experience of professional life as a world historian. Points to methodological challenges; the scholar's current research agenda in relation to the development of world history; and future directions anticipated for key areas within world history"-- UR - http://catalogimages.wiley.com/images/db/jimages/9781118294857.jpg ER -