Cosmopolitan History
ISSN: 3049-7981 (Print)
ISSN: 3049-799X (Online)
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Examining history via the positive interactions of cultures and civilizations, though also acknowledging other experience, Cosmopolitan History analyses and celebrates a vital theme that has enriched people’s lives in addition to contributing to the development of cultures, civilizations, landscapes and states. These interactions have ensued in various contexts and scales, whether by individuals, groups or states, via knowledge exchange, trade, diplomacy and other activities. Extending to a variety of themes that include art, architecture, botany, ceramics, chemistry, garden and other forms of design, language, literature, mathematics, medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology, transportation and science, the journal explores the causes, nature and impact of these interactions and their relationship to how people have understood their place in the world and interaction with those from other lands, cultures and civilizations. The term, in addition to knowledge of, including ontology and epistemology and cosmopolitan phenomena, is critically evaluated and examined across time, space and contexts. Examination is also made of the term and phenomenon of cosmopolitan history by historians, philosophers and others in the past and present. In examining and disseminating this field, the journal demonstrates how cosmopolitan history may be undertaken and its implications for the study and dissemination of history and other paradigms and approaches, including local history, national history, global history, transnational history, thematic histories, including cultural and social, yet also art, economic, medical and scientific history, philosophy of history, postmodernism and post, postmodernism. Critique is provided of theory and paradigms, and insight and nuance are generated that contribute to knowledge and understanding of the past and provide historical depth to contemporary debates of cosmopolitanism, globalisation, diversity and social harmony. In addition to those from historians, whether intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, medical, scientific and other, papers are also invited from scholars from allied fields as also jointly authored papers from scholars of different disciplines, including archaeology, architecture, historical sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, linguistics and others. In linking past with present and future in a meaningful and significant manner, this journal seeks to contribute to human fraternity whilst fully cognizant of other aspects of human history. Established by its founding editor, a pioneer in this field. Whilst articles also address the role of translation of culture, greater specialisation of this phenomenon is addressed by the journal of this name.