Rethinking global history
"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 t...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2024
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009444002 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009444002 Verlag, Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738313030393434343032367C7C434F50.jpg?sq=1 
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| Author Notes: | edited by Stefanie Gänger (Heidelberg University), Jürgen Osterhammel (University of Konstanz) |
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