Rethinking global history
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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Cambridge New York, NY Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore : Cambridge University Press,
2024
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| Sujets: | World history Globalization History General & world history Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte Geschichte: Theorie und Methoden HISTORY / World History: theory & methods Weltgeschichte Geschichtstheorie plus... |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 280 Seiten) |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : Rethinking history, globally Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel
- Part I Forms of inquiry and argumentation
- Explanation : the limits of narrativism in global history Jürgen 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
- Part II Concepts and metaphors
- 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 : rrom shipworms to the globe and back Dániel Margócsy
- Part III Configurations and telos
- 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 Gänger
- Centrisms : questions of privilege and perspective in global historical scholarship Dominic Sachsenmaier.