Description
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global history
Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovative field in historyone that takes the connectedness of the world as its point of departure, and that poses a fundamental challenge to the premises and methods of history as we know it.
What Is Global History? provides a comprehensive overview of this exciting new approach to history. The book addresses some of the biggest questions the discipline will face in the twenty-first century: How does global history differ from other interpretations of world history? How do we write a global history that is
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"Conrad makes a case for global history as a self-consciously political and ethical enterprise through an enjoyable synthesis of what has to date been a diffuse, even incoherent field. A must read for anyone attempting to write or read global history."--Choice
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1 2 A short history of thinking globally 17 3 Competing approaches 37 4 Global history as a distinct approach 62 5 Global history and forms of integration 90 6 Space in global history 115 7 Time in global history 141 8 Positionality and centered approaches 162 9 World-making and the concepts of global history 185 10 Global history for whom? The politics of global history 205 Acknowledgments 237 Notes 239 Index 283
