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Introduction
This chapter serves as an introduction to the book. It provides the central argument, asserting that global history endeavors to incorporate China’s...
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The Global Moment
This chapter places the question of global moments in global history within the context of the ongoing discourse among historical theorists and world...
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World History in China
This chapter belongs to the first part of the book on the origins and fundamental theoretical orientations of global history. It provides a...
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Global Intellectual History
Global history challenges Eurocentric biases, emphasizes global connections, and utilizes contextual comparisons. However, its relationship with...
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Global History in China
This book explores global history as an emerging field of scholarly studies in China today. Readers are invited to rethink the origin of global...
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Origins of Global History
This chapter provides a succinct introduction to the emergence of global history and global perspectives in Chinese historiography. Unlike other...
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The World as Historical Analogy
Global historians in China critique the Eurocentric biases prevalent in existing world history scholarship. This chapter, part of the broader...
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The Rise of Area Studies and Global History
This concluding chapter of the book scrutinizes the emergence of area studies and their potential repercussions on global history. It revisits the...
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The United Nations and Sustainable Development Goals
The book is a collection of analyses on country-specific and universal efforts, programmes and projects from Africa and beyond, aimed at realising...
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The Emergence of the Category of Learning Disability in the US and India
This chapter compares the emergence of the learning disability (LD) category in the US with that in India as a springboard to the analysis presented...
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The Global Context for Inclusive Education
This chapter asks the question: How did an inclusive program like Education For All create a new group of marginalized students? Part of the answer...
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Assessing for Learning Disabilities
The first chapter presented some ineluctable facts about growing numbers of children being labeled learning disabled. Data from subsequent chapters...
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Studying Youth and Development in Cuba
In this chapter, the editors introduce how the compilation was conceived and designed to offer the reader a combination of studies written by experts...
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On the Challenges Facing Young People in Contemporary Sociocultural Development
In this chapter, Gloria Fariñas, an expert in Educational Psychology and youth education, offers an analysis of the challenges young people face in...
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Journalism Students’ Conceptions of Gender Violence Against Women in Relationships
From their points of view as professors and researchers at the University of Holguín, Aida Torralbas and Sandra Fagales present in Chapter 7 the...
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African Socialism
In their struggle for Uhuru (freedom) and political independence, African politicians had launched populist mass movements against colonial rule and...
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Summary and Outlook: Development Policy Perspectives
Africa is a continent in rapid change: problems of all kinds are piling up for the people on the ground, but there are also positive developments....
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Introduction
This textbook consists of five parts, which build on each other, but which can also—depending on the reader’s interest—be read as separate units. The...
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The Making of General Electric in the Era of Finance Capital
This chapter examines the formation of the modern capitalist state in the United States and its relationship to the development of corporate...
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From Class Interest to National Interest: General Electric and the Making of an Informal Empire
This chapter examines how the American state organized a class consensus around building a global “informal empire.” This included actively to...