What Is Global History? / / Sebastian Conrad.

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 w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. A short history of thinking globally
  • Chapter 3. Competing approaches
  • Chapter 4. Global history as a distinct approach
  • Chapter 5. Global history and forms of integration
  • Chapter 6. Space in global history
  • Chapter 7. Time in global history
  • Chapter 8. Positionality and centered approaches
  • Chapter 9. World-making and the concepts of global history
  • Chapter 10. Global history for whom? The politics of global history
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index