This book makes a unique and timely contribution to world global historical studies and related
fields. It places essential world historical frameworks by top scholars in the field today in
clear direct relation to and conversation with one other offering them opportunity to enrich
elucidate and at times challenge one another. It thereby aims to: (1) offer world historians
opportunity to critically reflect upon and refine their essential interpretational frameworks
(2) facilitate more effective and nuanced teaching and learning in and beyond the classroom
(3) provide accessible world historical contexts for specialized areas of historical as well as
other fields of research in the humanities social sciences and sciences and (4) promote
comparative historiographical critique which (a) helps identify continuing research questions
for the field of world history in particular as well as (b) further global peace and dialogue
in relation to varying views of our ever-increasingly interconnected interdependent
multicultural and globalized world and its shared though diverse and sometimes contested
history.
