ISBN:
9781009444040
,
9781009444026
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 280 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rethinking global history
DDC:
909
Keywords:
World history Philosophy
;
Globalization History
;
History Methodology
;
General & world history
;
Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
;
Geschichte: Theorie und Methoden
;
HISTORY / World
;
History: theory & methods
Abstract:
"This collection of essays by leading global historians sheds light on the field's conceptual foundations and analytical instruments. Readers are guided to question implicit assumptions, critically assess the extant literature and reflect on the implications of history going global. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Rethinking history, globally / Stefanie Ganger & Jurgen Osterhammel -- Explanation: The limits of narrativism in global history / Jurgen Osterhammel -- Comparison: Its use and misuse in social and economic history / Alessandro Stanziani -- Time: Temporality in global history / Christina Brauner -- Quantification: Measuring connections and comparative development in global history / Pim de Zwart -- The global and the earthy: taking the planet seriously as a global historian / Sujit Sivasundaram -- Openness and closure: spheres and other metaphors of boundedness in global history / Valeska Huber -- Scales: From shipworms to the globe and back / Daniel Margocsy -- Tacit directionality: processes, teleology and contingency in global history / Jan C. Jansen -- Distance: a problem in global history / Jeremy Adelman -- Materiality: global history and the material world / Stefanie Ganger -- Centrisms: questions of privilege and perspective in global historical scholarship / Dominic Sachsenmaier
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
