General History - Ippanshi

Japanese: 一般史 - いっぱんし
General History - Ippanshi

...A field of history that seeks to understand the world in a unified context. Similar terms include general history, universal history, and human history, and although their meanings may differ slightly depending on the historian, the term world history can be unified. In Japan, there was also the term universal history, but this term is no longer used because it has a strong connotation of a list of nation-states.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "general history" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…世界を統一的連関のもとにとらえようとする歴史学の一領域。類似したことばとして一般史,普遍史,人類史などがあり,歴史家によって多少意味の異なる場合もあるが,世界史ということばで統一できよう。日本ではこのほか万国史といういい方があったが,国民国家の列挙という意味が強く今は使用されない。…

※「一般史」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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