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Social history and world history: from daily life to patterns of change *.
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Journal of World History
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March 1, 2007
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The revival of world history as a legitimate part of academic departments in Western (especially North American) research universities is not much more than thirty years old. Having emerged, in many cases, under the influence of world-systems theory, the field has sometimes been criticized for being too heavily oriented toward political economy and to a lesser extent toward other kinds of history (such as environmental history) with a strongly materialist bent. And many of the pioneers of the field--including some not enamored of a world systems approach--found that strongly materialist approaches offered clear advantages for scholars breaking out of conventional national or ...
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