| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Benedikt Stuchtey and Eckhardt Fuchs, editors. Writing World History 1800–2000. (Studies in the German Historical Institute.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 367.
The essays in this useful collection examine the impact of various national and regional contexts on the writing of world history. They cover a broad range of overlapping historiographical traditions, including trends in France, England, the United States, Germany, Russia, Africa, India, China, and Japan between 1800 and 2000. Rather than simply repeating the familiar critique that world history has been plagued by Eurocentrism or lamenting the distortions produced by nationalist perspectives, the essays identify discrete strands of scholarship and carefully trace their influence across time and borders. The result is a valuable introduction to world history writing that also challenges scholars already active in the field to broaden their understanding of its origins and to refine their responses to some of its central debates.	1
A first set of reflective essays takes seriously the question of whether it is possible to produce non-Eurocentric world history. Jerry Bentley nominates cross-cultural interactions as objects of study that can preserve the agency of non-European societies while also recognizing the transformative impact of Europeans in some historical settings and moments. Patrick K. O'Brien explores the possibilities for writing a material history of the world that does not rely on either Western periodization or classic constructions of material progress. In a suggestive essay that operates informally as an anchor for the book, Arif Dirlik deconstructs Eurocentrism and its critics, and asks whether the rise of "globalization" as an object of study signals the end of Eurocentrism or its triumph.	. . .

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