Creating New World History from Asian and Japanese Perspectives

Shigeru AKITA, et al. (Graduate School of Letters)

Objective
   This lecture presents new interpretations of World History, based on the recent development of historiography in World History. We try to reconsider the Western-centered World History, and to deal with the following history of mega-regions and areas: Central-Eurasia, Maritime Asia and Southeast Asia, the British Empire, the United States and modern Japan. We adopt the approach of 'transnational history' or 'global history', to overcome national-history framework and to locate Japanese history within a global perspective.

Course Schedule
  1. Introduction: Invitation to New World History/Global History    Shigeru AKITA (Dep. of World History)
  2. World History seen from Central-Eurasia: Nomadic states    Takao MORIYASU (Dep. of World History)
  3. Reinterpretation of pre-modern 'Silk Road'    Takao MORIYASU (Dep. of World History)
  4. Mani religion, Central Asia and Japan    Takao MORIYASU (Dep. of World History)
  5. Southeast Asia: World History in a Periphery    Shiro MOMOKI (Dep. of World History)
  6. Maritime Asia: World History of interactions    Shiro MOMOKI (Dep. of World History)
  7. Another 'Great Divergence' : World History in the early-modern era    Shiro MOMOKI (Dep. of World History)
  8. The British Empire and hegemony: the formation of 'Pax Britannica'    Shigeru AKITA (Dep. of World History)
  9. The Meiji Restoration: Opening the country to the World and Expulsion of foreigners    Kazuyuki IIZUKA (Dep. of Japanese History)
  10. The Sino-Japanese War: Crossroads to the imperialistic country    Kazuyuki IIZUKA (Dep. of Japanese History)
  11. Preserving Distinctiveness: Language Loyalty and Americanization in early twentieth century Chicago    Kotaro NAKANO (Dep. of World History)
  12. Homeland Nationalism and American Patriotism: Immigrants in the Great War    Kotaro NAKANO (Dep. of World History)
  13. International Order of Asia in the 1930s    Shigeru AKITA (Dep. of World History)
  14. 'Pax Americana' and 'East Asian Miracle' : a contemporary history    Shigeru AKITA (Dep. pf World History)
  15. General Discussion: Creation of New World History/Global History    Takao MORIYASU, Shiro MOMOKI, Kazuyuki IIZUKA, Kotaro NAKANO and Shigeru AKITA