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Chapter 1: Writing World History by Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Ancient…
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"...world histories share the purpose of offering a construction of and thus a guide to a meaningful 'world' or 'realm or domain taken for an entire meaningful system of existence or activity' by historians or people in the past. Thus all histories are world histories. Where histories differ is in the degree to which the purpose of world construction is explicit."
"entire meaningful system of existence or activity" = a civilization/culture? As in, that culture is a "world" because their conception is, to the members of that culture, the "world"
This conception is necessarily imposed (and constructed) by the historian, and thus "the degree to which the purpose of world construction is explicit" becomes central
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