Writing the History of the Global : Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780197265321 | 0197265324
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/14/2013
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The early part of the twenty-first century has witnessed a profound turn in history writing and museum culture towards global and world history. Historians and curators are rapidly changing what they do: no longer satisfied with traditional national histories and area studies, they are pursuing histories of subjects affected by environmental change, migration, slavery, trade and travel. They face challenges of writing about individuals and families in the world, and of politicalcultures and ideas that have transformed as they have moved between... MORE
1. Introduction: Global History Approaches, Maxine Berg
Part 1. Interpretations: Ideas and the Making of Global History
2. Problems in Global History, David Washbrook
3. Reflections on Doing Global History, Jan de Vries
4. Global History: A Note on Some Discontents in the Historical Narrative, Jean-Frederic Schaub
Part 2. Approaches: Methods and Methodologies in Global History
5. Comparison in Global History, Prasannan Parthasarathi
6. Re... MORE
Maxine Berg is Professor of History at the University of Warwick.
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