Chris Edwards

To Explain It All (eBook, PDF)

Everything You Wanted to Know about the Popularity of World History Today, Volume 2

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

World history is not a subject; it is all the subjects. Because of this, world history as a discipline has never fit well with the traditional definition of historical research. H.G. Wells wrote the first true book of world history in 1920 and only a few authors have made the attempt to "explain it all" since Wells. In that time, world history has become the chosen subject of polymaths and possesses the most potential to unite all of the fields of knowledge. The subject of world history has developed several approaches, with "Big History" being the most modern, and flawed, of its variants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216318149
• Artikelnr.: 74844503

Autorenporträt

Chris Edwards has had his "connect-the-dots" teaching methodology published by the National Council for Social Studies, is the author of two books of philosophy, and is a frequent contributor on topics of law, logic, and theoretical physics to the science and philosophy journals Skeptic and Free Inquiry. He proudly teaches world history and Advanced Placement world history at a public high school in Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: World History Through Islamic Eyes
Chapter 2: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Chapter 3: A People's History of the World
Chapter 4: Francis Fukuyama's Thesis-Driven World History
Chapter 5: World History in Academia, and the Development of Big History
Conclusion
References
About the Author