Propylaea world history

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The Propylaen World History (subtitle: A Universal History from the Beginnings to the Post-War Period ) is a German-language standard work on history , edited by Golo Mann , Alfred Heuss and August Nitschke , published by Propylaen between 1960 and 1965 in eleven volumes.

A Propylaea World History had already appeared in the 1920s / 1930s (ten volumes) and the early 1940s (four of the planned six volumes) .

Propylaea World History (Published 1960–1965)

Authors and conception of the work

In the new version, Heuss was responsible for the volumes on antiquity, Nitschke, together with Mann, those on the Middle Ages and Mann on the modern times. A large number of respected researchers from different disciplines contributed to the Propylaea world history, each of whom wrote articles for the individual volumes. These include:

Heuss as well as Nitschke and Mann also wrote several articles themselves.

In contrast to previously common representations, the editors and authors broke away from Eurocentric thinking and the conception of a unified, linear development of history in favor of pluralistic and non-progressive thinking. The inclusion of cultural history , the history of religion and the history of science were also groundbreaking .

Even if the work has been overtaken in some areas by more recent research, it still represents one of the few attempts to convey world history to a generally historically interested audience. Several contributions, such as that of Heuss, enjoy a very good reputation to this day. In 1999, the Propylaea World History was also published in electronic form on CD-ROM ( digital library , vol. 14).

structure

  • Volume 1: Prehistory - Early High Cultures
  • Volume 2: Advanced Cultures of Central and Eastern Asia
  • Volume 3: Greece - The Hellenistic World
  • Volume 4: Rome - The Roman World
  • Volume 5: Islam - The Origin of Europe
  • Volume 6: World Cultures - Renaissance in Europe
  • Volume 7: From the Reformation to the Revolution
  • Volume 8: The Nineteenth Century
  • Volume 9: The Twentieth Century
  • Volume 10: The World Today
  • Volume 11: Summa historica

Propylaea World History (Published 1929–1933)

Editor: Walter Goetz

structure

  • Volume 1: The Awakening of Mankind
  • Volume 2: Hellas and Rome / Origin of Christianity
  • Volume 3: The Middle Ages (400–1250)
  • Volume 4: The Age of Gothic and Renaissance (1250–1500)
  • Volume 5: Reformation and Counter-Reformation (1500–1660)
  • Volume 6: The Age of Absolutism (1660–1788)
  • Volume 7: Revolution and Restoration (1789–1848)
  • Volume 8: Liberalism and Nationalism (1848–1890)
  • Volume 9: The emergence of the world state system
  • Volume 10: The Age of Imperialism (1890–1933)

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The New Propylaea World History (Published 1940–1943)

Six volumes were planned, four volumes have been published. Editor: Willy Andreas

structure

  • Volume 1: Prehistory of Man; Early days of peoples, empires of antiquity
  • Volume 2: The rise of Germanism and the world of the Middle Ages
  • Volume 3: The Age of Discovery, the Renaissance and the Faith Struggles
  • Volume 5: The old and the new world under the sign of Reformation and Restoration

planned, but no longer published:

  • Volume 4: Absolutism in Europe and the transformation of the overseas world
  • Volume 6: Nationality Movement and Imperialism, World War and Modern Times

Bibliographical information

  • Propylaea world history. A universal story from the beginning to the post-war period . 11 volumes. Propylaeen-Verlag, Berlin 1960–1965.
  • Propylaea world history . Edited by Walter Goetz. 10 volumes. Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 1929–1933.
  • The New Propylaea World History . Edited by Willy Andreas. 4 of the planned 6 volumes. Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 1940–1943.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History: Time of All Times . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1963 ( online ).