Thank you for viewing. ☆ This is a used book ☆ *Will be shipped with waterproof packaging. Content Description A prominent Chinese historian and a leading scholar of Ottoman history, who both challenge conventional world history with their unique perspectives, question the "common sense of history"! Is Japanese history "incomprehensible" from the perspective of Eurasian history? Is global history truly "global"? Does the "Chinese nation" emphasized by China truly exist? etc... A book full of hints for re-examining history and re-evaluating the modern world! Table of Contents Prologue: What is history? - Questioning its "self-evidence" Chapter 1: Thinking about "civilization" and "world history" Chapter 2: How to understand the "world" - East and West, Hua and Yi Chapter 3: Integration and Identity Chapter 4: Thinking about "religion" Chapter 5: The nature of "domination" Chapter 6: The nature of environment, culture, and society - Geographical and ecological environment and social relations Chapter 7: Thinking about the state, the nation, and ethnicity Epilogue: China, and then Japan Author Introduction Tadashi Suzuki [SUZUKI Tadashi] Born in 1947. Completed the doctoral program in the Graduate School of Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. Doctor of Law. His specialty is Ottoman history, but he also has a deep interest in comparative history and comparative culture. From 1983, he was an associate professor at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, from 1991, a professor at the same institute, and from 2012, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. Honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society. Takashi Okamoto [OKAMOTO Takashi] Born in 1965. Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, and holds a Ph.D. (Literature). Professor at Kyoto Prefectural University. His specialty is Oriental history and modern Asian history. "Modern China and the Customs" and "Between Subjugation and Autonomy" (both published by Nagoya University Press. The former won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, and the latter won the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences), "The Birth of China" "What is History: Seeking a New "World History"" Tadashi Suzuki / Takashi Okamoto / Takashi Okamoto Price: ¥1600 #TadashiSuzuki #Suzuki_Tadashi #TakashiOkamoto #Okamoto_Takashi #TakashiOkamoto #Okamoto_Takashi #book #history/worldhistory