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1、StateFormationandPeriodizationinInnerAsianHistoryDiCosmo,Nicola,1957-JournalofWorldHistory,Volume10,Number1,Spring1999,pp.1-40(Article)PublishedbyUniversityofHawai'iPressDOI:10.1353/jwh.2005.0008Foradditionalinformationaboutthisarticlehttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jwh/summary/v010/10.1dicosm
2、o.htmlAccessProvidedbyUniversitaetWien/Bibliotheks-UndArchivwesenat07/21/125:52PMGMTStateFormationandPeriodizationinInnerAsianHistory*nicoladicosmoHarvardUniversityIfyouhavenothingtotellusbutthatonthebanksoftheOxusandtheJaxartesonebarbarianhasbeensucceededbyanotherbarbarian,inwhatrespectdoy
3、oubenefitthepublic?Voltaire,“OntheMethodorMannerofWritingHistory,andofStyle,”inPhilosophicalDictionarySomerecentpublicationsonworldhistoryperiodizationattesttoworldhistorians’effortstofindviablecriteriathatcouldbeadoptedinasystematic,coherent,andyetnon-“centric”visionofglobalhistory.1Theres
4、eemstobeameasureofconsensus,notedbyWilliamMcNeill,aroundthenotionoftranscivilizational,orcross-cultural,phenomenathatwouldbringtothesurfaceconnectionsamongdifferentregionsoftheworld—connectionsotherwiseinvisibletohistorianswhoinvesti-gateasinglesocietyorcivilization.2Theweboflinkagesthusunc
5、overed*IamindebtedtoProfessorsThomasAllsen,PeterGolden,MorrisRossabi,CemalKafadar,DavidGraff,andPeterPerdue,whoreadversionsofthisarticleandmadeveryhelpfulsuggestions.Ialsothanktheanonymousreviewersfortheirvaluablecommentsandcriticisms.1SeeWilliamGreen,“PeriodizationinEuropeanandWorldHistory
6、,”JournalofWorldHistory3(1992):13–53;and“PeriodizingWorldHistory,”HistoryandTheory34(1995):99–111.2WilliamMcNeill,“TheChangingShapeofWorldHistory,”HistoryandTheory34(1995):14.JournalofWorldHistory,Vol.10,No.1©1999byUniversityofHawai‘iPress12journalofworldhistory,spring1999wouldeventuallysho
7、wthe“systemic”relationsexistingbetween“areal”historiespreviouslyconsideredseparately.3Inthefirstoftwo“Forum”articlespublishedintheAmericanHistoricalReview,JerryBentleyproposesaperiodizationthatempha-sizestransregionalandcross-culturalprocesses.Inthesecon
