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World History and Cultures

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: humanities
Qualification: MA
Kind of studies: part-time studies
Master of Arts (MA)
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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Scholars who write about history are called historians.
World
The world is the planet Earth and all life upon it, including human civilization. In a philosophical context, the "world" is the whole of the physical Universe, or an ontological world (the "world" of an individual). In a theological context, the world is the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred spheres. "End of the world" scenarios refer to the end of human history, often in religious contexts.
World History
World history or global history (not to be confused with diplomatic, transnational or international history) is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines history from a global perspective. It is not to be confused with comparative history, which, like world history, deals with the history of multiple cultures and nations, but does not do so on a global scale. World history looks for common patterns that emerge across all cultures. World historians use a thematic approach, with two major focal points: integration (how processes of world history have drawn people of the world together) and difference (how patterns of world history reveal the diversity of the human experiences).
World
Even the linked fantasies, in whose blossomy twist
I swung the earth a trinket at my wrist.
Francis Thompson, Hound of Heaven, line 126; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
World
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade
Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;
Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,
And make use of your wings while you may.
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But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,
They at last found it dangerous play;
Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,
Only dazzle to lead us astray.
Thomas Haynes Bayly, Fly away, pretty Moth; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
World
This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767), Book II, Chapter XII; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
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