New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2011. Presents thirty-three essays by a stellar collection of distinguished scholars, including some of the most prominent historians in their respective fields. Their essays address the most important issues explored by contemporary world historians. Essays on conceptions deal with issues of space and time as treated in the field of world history as well as questions of method, epistemology, the historiography of world history, and globalization as viewed from historical perspective.