Chronologics : : periodisation in a global context / / Barbara Mittler, Thomas Maissen, Pierre Monnet (editors).

• TeilnehmendeR: Mittler, Barbara,; Maissen, Thomas,; Monnet, Pierre,
• Place / Publishing House: Heidelberg : : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP),, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 286 pages) :; illustrations

Many periodization schemes have their roots in Europe, reflecting specific national, religious, or historiographical traditions and teleologies. In the course of the colonial encounter, they were able to establish their own new ideas of time in America, Asia and Africa. Such culturally determined periodization schemes require a systematic comparison in order to determine their particularities in the respective context and their contingency. An interdisciplinary and transregional approach makes it possible to develop categories of historical analysis that go beyond nationally bound patterns of interpretation. By looking at case studies from different parts of the world, this volume seeks to uncover some of the dynamics.

Table of Contents

Introduction Periodization in a Global Context -- Section I - CHRONOTYPOLOGIES Questions of Space, Time, Class, Race and State -- chronotypologies An Introduction -- 1. Making periodization possible The concept of the course of time in historical thinking -- 2. 'Islamic Civilisation' as a (Medieval) Problem The Idea of ​​Islamic Modernity in "Islamic Studies" -- 3. Temporalities, Historical Writing and the Meaning of Revolution A Eurasian View -- 4. Periodization as Dialectic in a Peasant Discourse from Late Colonial India -- 5. The Pitfalls of Terminology Uncovering the Paradoxical Roots of Early Modern History in American Historiography -- 6. Historical Timeframes for Stateless Nations Analyzing the Colonized Periodization Paradox of Palestinian History -- Section II - CHRONOLOGICS Contested Ways of Thinking Time -- Chronologics An Introduction -- 7. The Time of World History Essaying Marshall GS Hodgson's Work on Islamicate Societies and Afro-Eurasian World History -- 8. Time and Its Others Contesting Telos through a Sociospatial Analysis of Islamicate Chronotopes -- 9. Transnational Modernism and the Problem of Eurochronology -- 10. The Mythical Medieval Periodisation, Historical Memory and the Imagination of the Indian Nation -- 11. Reframing Time to Save the Nation The Jewish Historian as Cultural Trickster -- 12. Nationhood and Imposing Power over Historical Time and Chronology -- 13. Conclusion. region, nation, world Remarks on Scale and the Problem of Periodization.