Toward a Global Community of Historians

Toward a Global Community of HistoriansGlobalization presents major challenges to scholars of history. Different variants of global history and world history compete with, and transform, more traditional approaches of national, regional, and local scope, accompanied by new forms of international and transcultural cooperation. However, as this book shows, these transnational trends in the historical discipline are not without precedent. Based on painstaking research, this volume

The Moon and Sixpence is a tale of creativity

and Jewish traditions

Reading Human Nature contains trenchant theoretical essays

His format of presenting these views gives justice to the highly individualized character of religious worldviews

such as those of colonialism

and messianism

or on their participation in the social

“Love conquers all things

The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space

Beginning with a survey of the deserts and oases of Egypt

political culture and political theory as well as historians

“the West” became associated with notions of progress