ISBN:
9781009444002
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9781009444019
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9781009443999
Language:
English
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1 Online-Ressource (292 pages)
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DDC:
909
Keywords:
World history Philosophy
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History Methodology
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Globalization History
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Histoire universelle - Philosophie
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Histoire - Méthodologie
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Mondialisation - Histoire
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Abstract:
Despite three decades of rapid expansion and public success, global history's theoretical and methodological foundations remain under-conceptualised, even to those using them. In this collection of essays, leading historians provide a reassessment of global history's most common analytical instruments, metaphors and conceptual foundations. Rethinking Global History prompts historians to pause and think about the methodology and premises underpinning their work. The volume reflects on the structure and direction of history, its relation to our present and the ways in which historians should best explain, contextualise and represent events and circumstances in the past. In chapters on fundamental concepts such as scale, comparison, temporality and teleology, this collection will guide readers to assess the extant literature critically and write theoretically informed global histories. Taken together, these essays provide a unique and much-needed assessment of 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 and 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
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