Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- Part Four Questions of Method
- 17 On early modern historiography
- 18 Microhistory and world history
- Index
- References
17 - On early modern historiography
from Part Four - Questions of Method
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- Part Four Questions of Method
- 17 On early modern historiography
- 18 Microhistory and world history
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter analyses the rise of new forms of large-scale history writing in the early modern period, that is between about 1400 and 1800. It begins with some earliest works of universal history. An important centre for the further spread and consolidation of the Islamic historiographical tradition, which extended progressively from Arabic into Persian, was Ghazna in Afghanistan in the tenth and eleventh centuries CE. The historians and their writings may properly be placed under the category of forced acculturation, produced under conditions of imperial domination. Everywhere in the Asian world where Europeans posed a threat, from Mughal India to Japan, at least some intellectuals in the seventeenth century sought to understand their history and their origins. The cartographic work of the Jesuit Giulio Alenio, produced in the early 1620s, certainly provided the Chinese literati with a rather idealised picture of Europe and also attempted to cover the Indian Ocean world, Africa and even Peru and Mexico.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 425 - 445Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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