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The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing, using twelve different branches of history.

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“This is one of many volumes devoted to the search for a proper historiography fitting the human life that is now being lived globally and thus must be understood accordingly. … Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.” (A. Breisach, Choice, Vol. 53 (1), September, 2015)



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Introduction 1. Theory in Practice 2. Twelve Branches in their Singularities, Overlaps, and Clusters 3. Comparing or Connecting 4. Comparing and Connecting 5. Varieties of Connections 6. Conceptualizing through Social Sciences 7. Thinking Globalization Historically 8. Contextualizing in Bigger Scales 9. All Together Now, a Last Rehearsal: Thinking Globally on Border Crossing Phenomena, the First World War Analytical Bibliography

Thinking History Globally

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      Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
      Published 11 April 2014
      ISBN-13 9781137473387
      978-1137473387
      ISBN-10 113747338X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing, using twelve different branches of history.

      Trade Review

      “This is one of many volumes devoted to the search for a proper historiography fitting the human life that is now being lived globally and thus must be understood accordingly. … Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.” (A. Breisach, Choice, Vol. 53 (1), September, 2015)



      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1. Theory in Practice 2. Twelve Branches in their Singularities, Overlaps, and Clusters 3. Comparing or Connecting 4. Comparing and Connecting 5. Varieties of Connections 6. Conceptualizing through Social Sciences 7. Thinking Globalization Historically 8. Contextualizing in Bigger Scales 9. All Together Now, a Last Rehearsal: Thinking Globally on Border Crossing Phenomena, the First World War Analytical Bibliography

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