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Introduction Modern World History: Conception Periodization What is “World History”? Total history/global history? History of all countries/history of different regions? What is “modern”? Western views Former Soviet Union’s view The changing Chinese views Significance of World History Studies Intellectual fulfillment and spiritual disengagement In search of “true/authentic history” Social and practical value: providing historical experiences and lessons Interpreting Modern World History: Perspectives and Methodologies Macro-history and Micro-history/New history Theories and approaches: 3 levels Man/human society State World Mission of this lecture Recognizing: Modern World History is multi-faceted and multi-level. Identifying: what are the dramatic changes of the modern World. Understanding: there is some law/tendency of world history evolution? spiral progress? cycle? accidentalism? Characteristics of the 20th Century World History Globalization Advance of science and technology Dramatic change of the physical life Transformation of social and political ideologies Major Western Books on the 20th Century World History Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes：A History of the World，1914-1991 (London: Random House Inc., 1994) Giovanni Arrighi’s The Long Twentieth Century：Money, Power and and the Origins of Our Times (London New York: Verso, 1994) John Grenville’s A History of the World in the 20th Century (Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994 1997) Michael Howard’s The Oxford History of the 20th Century (UK: Oxford Univsersity Press, 1998) Richard W. Bulliet’s The Columbia History of the 20th Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999) Harold Evans’s The American Century (New York: Knopf, 1998) Eric Hobsbawm influential and controversial, not least as Britains best known and most enduring Marxist historian The Age of Extremes：A History of the World，1914-1991 world history illustrated by the experiences of an individual Giovanni Arrighi His main int