Macrohistory, the Glossary
Macrohistory seeks out large, long-term trends in world history in search of ultimate patterns by a comparison of proximate details.[1]
Table of Contents
28 relations: Apokatastasis, Arnold J. Toynbee, Battle of Ain Jalut, Big History, Civilization, Cliodynamics, Cliometrics, Communism, Eschatology, Feudalism, Historiography, Liberty, Longue durée, Microhistory, Mongol invasions and conquests, Odd Arne Westad, Oded Galor, Oswald Spengler, Pax Mongolica, Productive forces, Rationality, Robert Solow, Slavery, The Rise of the West, Unified growth theory, Universal history (genre), William H. McNeill, World history (field).
- Fields of history
- World history
Apokatastasis
In theology, apokatastasis (ἀποκατάστασις,, also spelled apocatastasis) is the restoration of creation to a condition of perfection.
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Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold Joseph Toynbee (14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London.
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Battle of Ain Jalut
The Battle of Ain Jalut, also spelled Ayn Jalut, was fought between the Bahri Mamluks of Egypt and the Mongol Empire on 3 September 1260 (25 Ramadan 658 AH) near the spring of Ain Jalut in southeastern Galilee in the Jezreel Valley.
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Big History
Big History is an academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present. Macrohistory and Big History are fields of history.
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Civilization
A civilization (civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages (namely, writing systems and graphic arts).
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Cliodynamics
Cliodynamics is a transdisciplinary area of research that integrates cultural evolution, economic history/cliometrics, macrosociology, the mathematical modeling of historical processes during the longue durée, and the construction and analysis of historical databases.
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Cliometrics
Cliometrics (also), sometimes called 'new economic history' or 'econometric history', is the systematic application of economic theory, econometric techniques, and other formal or mathematical methods to the study of history (especially social and economic history).
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Communism
Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.
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Eschatology
Eschatology concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself.
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Feudalism
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.
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Historiography
Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.
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Liberty
Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.
Longue durée
The longue durée (the long term) is the French Annales School approach to the study of history.
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Microhistory
Microhistory is a genre of history that focuses on small units of research, such as an event, community, individual or a settlement. Macrohistory and Microhistory are fields of history.
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Mongol invasions and conquests
The Mongol invasions and conquests took place during the 13th and 14th centuries, creating history's largest contiguous empire, the Mongol Empire (1206–1368), which by 1260 covered large parts of Eurasia.
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Odd Arne Westad
Odd Arne Westad FBA (born 5 January 1960) is a Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history.
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Oded Galor
Oded Galor (born 1953) is an Israeli-American economist who is currently Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University.
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Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history.
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Pax Mongolica
The Pax Mongolica (Latin for "Mongol Peace"), less often known as Pax Tatarica ("Tatar Peace"), is a historiographical term modeled after the original phrase Pax Romana which describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory that the Mongols conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Productive forces
Productive forces, productive powers, or forces of production (German: Produktivkräfte) is a central idea in Marxism and historical materialism.
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Rationality
Rationality is the quality of being guided by or based on reason.
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Robert Solow
Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023) was an American economist and Nobel laureate whose work on the theory of economic growth culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him.
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Slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.
The Rise of the West
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community is a book by University of Chicago historian William H. McNeill, first published in 1963 and enlarged with a retrospective preface in 1991.
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Unified growth theory
Unified growth theory was developed in light of the alleged failure of endogenous growth theory to capture key empirical regularities in the growth processes and their contribution to the momentous rise in inequality across nations in the past two centuries.
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Universal history (genre)
A universal history is a work aiming at the presentation of a history of all of humankind as a whole.
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William H. McNeill
William Hardy McNeill (October 31, 1917 – July 8, 2016) was an American historian and author, noted for his argument that contact and exchange among civilizations is what drives human history forward, first postulated in The Rise of the West (1963).
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World history (field)
World history or global history as a field of historical study examines history from a global perspective. Macrohistory and World history (field) are fields of history and world history.
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See also
Fields of history
- Administrative history
- Ancient history
- Applied history
- Archaeology
- Art history
- Auxiliary sciences of history
- Big History
- Chorography
- Church history
- Classical studies
- Comparative historical research
- Comparative history
- Contemporary history
- Counterfactual history
- Cultural history
- Demographic history
- Dress history
- Economic history
- Environmental history
- Ethnic history
- Ethnohistory
- Historical anthropology
- Historical demography
- Information history
- Landscape history
- Legal history
- Local history
- Macrohistory
- Medieval studies
- Microhistory
- New Philology (Latin America)
- Oral history
- Political history
- Political history in the United States
- Post-classical history
- Psychobiography
- Psychohistory
- Public history
- Quantitative history
- Renaissance studies
- Rural history
- Social history
- Subaltern Studies
- Transnational history
- Urban history
- World history (field)
World history
- A Little History of the World
- Alltagsgeschichte
- Early modern period
- Economic history of the world
- End of history
- Freedom Rising
- Geographical exploration
- Globalization
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- History of Earth
- History of Eurasia
- History of globalization
- History of international relations
- History of the Americas
- History of the World (book)
- Human history
- International relations (1648–1814)
- Journal of World History
- Late modern period
- Macrohistory
- Modern influence of Ancient Greece
- People's history
- Political history of the world
- Post-classical history
- Prehistory
- Recorded history
- Schøyen Collection
- The Cambridge World History
- The Great Divergence (book)
- The Lessons of History
- The Origins of Political Order
- Timeline of global health
- Timeline of national independence
- World History Association
- World history (field)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrohistory
Also known as Macro history, Macro-historical, Macro-history, Macrohistorical.