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In some ways the current generation is making great progress in developing a new, more comprehensive, and more intelligible version of world history. It is certainly a major change to find—within the pages of a single textbook or in the curriculum studied by high school and college students—a survey linking the experiences of people all around the globe for the past two thousand or more years. And it is new to have thematic volumes surveying the ecological and technological history of humankind.1
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Many historians have written narratives of the writing of history, in both abbreviated and extended form, though not usually with this explicit focus on world history. The following narrative corresponds to what E. H. Carr has called “the widening horizon” of history. Carr, What is History? (New York, 1961), 177–209.
See also R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, ed. Jan van der Duesen ([1946] Oxford, 1993);
Herbert Butterfield, The Origins of History (New York, 1981).
Bartolomé de Las Casas, História de las Indias, 3 vols. ([1566] Caracas, 1986);
Ma Huan, The Overall Survey of the Ocean’s Shore, ed. Feng Ch’en Chun, trans. J. V. G. Mills ([1433] Cambridge, 1970); Embree 1988; Levtzion 1981.
Bossuet [1681]; Hegel [1830]; Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Works (New York, 1968).
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Manning, P. (2003). Narrating World History. In: Navigating World History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403973856_6
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