About the World History

About the World History

World History looks for ordinary patterns that emerge across all cultures. World historians employ a thematic approach, with two main focal points: addition (how processes of world history have haggard people of the world together) and dissimilarity (how patterns of world history reveal the variety of the human experience).

The study of world history is in some ways a product of the present period of accelerated globalization.

The advent of World History as a separate field of study was heralded in the 1980s by the creation of the World History

Association and of regulate programs at a handful of universities. Over the past 20 years, scholarly publications, professional and academic organizations, and graduate programs in World History have proliferated, although the WHA is still predominantly an American occurrence. It has become an increasingly popular approach to education history in American high schools and colleges. Many new textbooks are being published with a World History approach.

The World History Association publishes the Journal of World History every quarter since 1990. The H-World conversation list serves as a network of communication among practitioners of world history, with discussions among scholars, announcements, syllabi, bibliographies and book reviews.

The international Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations approaches world history from the point of view of comparative civilizations. Founded at a conference in 1961 in Salzburg, Austria, that was attended by Othmar Anderlie, Pitirim Sorokin, and Arnold Toynbee, this is an international association of scholars that publishes a journal, Comparative Civilization Review, and hosts an annual meeting in cities around the world.