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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| Dokumenttyp: | Edited Volume |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge University Press
2024
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009444002 |
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| Verfasserangaben: | edited by Stefanie Gänger (Heidelberg University), Jürgen Osterhammel (University of Konstanz) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.