Rethinking global history / edited by Stefanie Gänger, Jürgen Osterhammel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gänger, Stefanie, editor, author.

Osterhammel, Jürgen, editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history--Philosophy.

World history.

History--Methodology.

History.

Globalization--History.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

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

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

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781009443999

1009443992

9781009444019

1009444018

9781009444002

100944400X