World History is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines history from a global perspective. Historiography is the study of the practice of history. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ...

Overview

Unlike most history writing of the 19th and most of the 20th centuries, which focused on narratives of individuals, and on national and ethnic perspectives, World History looks for common patterns that emerge across all cultures. World historians use a thematic approach, with two major focal points: integration (how processes of world history have drawn people of the world together) and difference (how patterns of world history reveal the diversity of the human experience). A pattern is a form, template, or model (or, more abstractly, a set of rules) which can be used to make or to generate things or parts of a thing, especially if the things that are generated have enough in common for the underlying pattern to be inferred or discerned... In literature, a theme is a broads idea in a story, or a message conveyed by a work. ... Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. ... A pattern is a form, template, or model (or, more abstractly, a set of rules) which can be used to make or to generate things or parts of a thing, especially if the things that are generated have enough in common for the underlying pattern to be inferred or discerned... Diversity is the presence of a wide range of variation in the qualities or attributes under discussion. ...

The study of world history is in some ways a product of the current period of accelerated globalization. This period is tending both to integrate various cultures and to highlight their differences. The Microsoft building in Bangalore, the information technology capital of India A KFC franchise in Kuwait. ...

The advent of World History as a distinct field of study was heralded in the 1980s by the creation of the World History Association [1] and of graduate programs at a handful of universities. Over the past 20 years, scholarly publications, professional and academic organizations, and graduate programs in World History have proliferated. It has become an increasingly popular approach to teaching history in United States high schools and colleges. Many new textbooks are being published with a World History approach. The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

Analogous works

Many works are analogous to World History, in that they discuss "the history of the world" in a unified framework — for example it was a genre popular in the 19th century with universal history, and with Christian historians going back to at least the 4th century. Other analogous works include: Universal history is basic to the Western tradition of historiography, especially the Judeo-Christian wellspring of that tradition. ...

• Shortly after World War I several popular books were written which dealt with the history of the world, though with a somewhat different approach. These included the children's book The Story of Mankind (1921) by Hendrik Willem van Loon and the textbook The Outline of History (1918) by H.G. Wells.
• William McNeill's The Rise of the West (1963).
• Marshall Hodgson's writings were a precursor to the modern World History approach.
• Arnold J. Toynbee was a precursor of modern World History with his vast project, A Study of History.
• William McGaughey's, Five Epochs of Civilization (2000) builds on the work of Spengler and Toynbee.

Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Robert Nivelle Herbert Henry Asquith Sir Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow... The Story of Mankind was written and illustrated by American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon and published in 1921. ... Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 - March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian and journalist. ... The goal of H. G. Wells in The Outline of History was stated in the subtitle: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind. Wells was very dissatisfied with the quality of history textbooks at the end of World War I, and so, between 1918 and 1919 produced a 1... H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... William H. McNeill (born 1917, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian historian. ... The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago, 1963) is the most popular work by William H. McNeill. ... Marshall G.S. Hodgson (1922 - 1968), was an Islamic scholar and a world historian at the University of Chicago. ... Arnold Joseph Toynbee (April 14, 1889 - October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934-1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline. ... A Study of History is the 12-volume magnum opus of British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, finished in 1961. ... William McGaughey is an author of books and a website proprietor who lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Five Epochs of Civilization: World History as Emerging in Five Civilizations is the title of a book by William McGaughey (Thistlerose Publications, 2000). ...

See also

• Big History
• Guns, Germs and Steel
• Historic recurrence
• The World's History
• Universal History

SHIET Big History is a discreet field of historical study that arose in the late 1980s. ... Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies cover Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at UCLA. It won the Pulitzer Prize for 1998, as well as the Aventis Prize for best science book in the... Historic recurrence is the repetition of similar events in history. ... The Worlds History is the title of a college textbook by world historian Howard Spodek. ... Universal history is basic to the Western tradition of historiography, especially the Judeo-Christian wellspring of that tradition. ...

Notes

External links

• World History Network
• Bridging World History
• China and Europe
• Journal of World History
• The Changing Shape of World History, William H. McNeill, Paper originally presented at the History and Theory World History Conference, March 25-26, 1994
• World History Connected
• World History For Us All - World History Model Curriculum
• World History Matters
• WWW-VL World History Index
• World History Blog - World History blog.
• World History Today - World History blog.