2.4 Cultural history

There is no History with a capital H, since all history is cultural history. Cultures are always particular cultures, inherently and necessarily so. A culture is defined by the specific practices it sanctions to the exclusion of alternatives. It cannot be a culture without excluding possibilities...


Shamanism;
Tribes and peoples;
Vedic exegesis;
The Indoeuropeans;
The Asian Ideology;
The Mongol conquest - gateway to the modern world?;
Why not China? Needham's question and the origin of the modern world;