Metahistory

A Review Essay

Authors

  • Laura Musselwhite Floyd College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.25.2.80-88

Abstract

In most undergraduate classrooms, the phrase "world history" has a specific meaning: a valiant attempt to combine the histories of the entire world into a two-semester course. Once the instructor gets past the impossibility of this notion, she does her best to convey to the students what she believes are the most indispensable parts of that history, inevitably omitting what others might deem indispensable. This type of history falls at the opposite end of the spectrum from what many world historians see I as their objective.

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Published

2000-09-01

How to Cite

Musselwhite, Laura. 2000. “Metahistory: A Review Essay”. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 25 (2):80-88. https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.25.2.80-88.

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2000)

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Copyright (c) 2000 Laura Musselwhite

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