This chapter is not exactly an attempt to define world history, but an account of the author’s concern regarding world history and why he believes world history is important. In doing that, he provides definitions and considerations about world history. Then he goes on to compare the different images of world history, dividing them in a “Judeo-Christian” image, a Marxist image, the “westernist” image, and the “four-region pattern” which, although poorly developed until now, can be considered to be the latest attempt in defining world history, an attempt that he criticizes harshly.
