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Ways of Seeing, Strategies of Writing

Ways of Seeing, Strategies of Writing Asian Review of World Histories 3:1 (January 2015), 1-9 © 2015 The Asian Association of World Historians doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12773/arwh.2015.3.1.001 Introduction Rila MUKHERJEE* This special issue of ARWH interrogates some of the themes, topics and tropes current in world history and engages with the diverse ways these can be written into world history. Containing select papers from the conference Writing World History, organ- ised by the Institut de Chandernagor, India and sponsored by the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, and the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of West Bengal in No- vember 2013, the collection asks: Can cross/trans-border histo- ries be called world history? Are the resulting new regional his- tories world histories? Are all cross-cultural/trans-regional /trans-national currents necessarily global? Is maritime/oceanic history part of world history? And finally, can one write a global history taking the sea as category? The essays by Chakravarti and Polonia underline the vari- ous possibilities revealed by a novel construction of a region across and without borders and which promise to be truly trans- national and trans-historical. Such possibilities may fully blos- som in the writing of a world history in the future, but for now a problem remains; Pearson’s essay sounding http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Review of World Histories Brill

Ways of Seeing, Strategies of Writing

Asian Review of World Histories , Volume 3 (1): 9 – Jun 29, 2015

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Asian Review of World Histories 3:1 (January 2015), 1-9 © 2015 The Asian Association of World Historians doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12773/arwh.2015.3.1.001 Introduction Rila MUKHERJEE* This special issue of ARWH interrogates some of the themes, topics and tropes current in world history and engages with the diverse ways these can be written into world history. Containing select papers from the conference Writing World History, organ- ised by the Institut de Chandernagor, India and sponsored by the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, and the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of West Bengal in No- vember 2013, the collection asks: Can cross/trans-border histo- ries be called world history? Are the resulting new regional his- tories world histories? Are all cross-cultural/trans-regional /trans-national currents necessarily global? Is maritime/oceanic history part of world history? And finally, can one write a global history taking the sea as category? The essays by Chakravarti and Polonia underline the vari- ous possibilities revealed by a novel construction of a region across and without borders and which promise to be truly trans- national and trans-historical. Such possibilities may fully blos- som in the writing of a world history in the future, but for now a problem remains; Pearson’s essay sounding

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Published: Jun 29, 2015

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