Writing the History of the Global

Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-726532-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 176 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 372 g

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 political cultures and ideas that have transformed as they have moved between different regions of the world. They are 'going beyond borders' and pursuing wider concepts of connectedness and of cosmopolitanism as these have developed in social theory.

Where has all this come from, and where is it taking us as historians? Writing The History of the Global brings together a number of the major historians now entering the field and re-thinking the way they write their histories. We read the reflections of China experts, historians of India and Japan, of Latin America, Africa and Europe on their past writing, and the new directions in which global history is taking them. It shows the rapid advances in the field from early and inspiring accounts
of encounters between East and West, of the wealth and poverty of nations and the crisis of empires, to new thinking on global material cultures, on composite zones and East Asian development paths.

It presents historians at a crossroads: enjoying the great excitement of moving out of national borders and reconnecting parts of the world once studied separately, but also facing the huge challenge of new methodologies of comparison, collaboration and interdisciplinarity and the problems of rapidly disappearing tools of foreign languages.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and undergraduate students of global history; historians; museum researchers and curators

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berg, Maxine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Maxine Berg: Introduction: Global History Approaches
Part 1. Interpretations: Ideas and the Making of Global History
2: David Washbrook: Problems in Global History
3: Jan de Vries: Reflections on Doing Global History
4: Jean-Fréderic Schaub: Global History: A Note on Some Discontents in the Historical Narrative
Part 2. Approaches: Methods and Methodologies in Global History
5: Prasannan Parthasarathi: Comparison in Global History
6: R.Bin Wong: Regions and Global History
7: Jan Luiten Van Zanden: Institutions for Writing the Economic History of the Global
Part 3. Shaping Global History
8: Ken Pomeranz: Writing about Divergences in Global History: Some Implications for Scale, Methods, Aims and Categories
9: Kaoru Sugihara: The European Miracle in Global History: An East Asian Perspective
Part 4. Knowledge and Global History
10: Dagmar Schäfer: Technology & Innovation in Global History and in the History of the Global
11: Craig Clunas: The Art of Global Comparisons
12: Glenn Adamson and Giorgio Riello: Global Objects: Contention and Entanglement
Part 5. Round Table
13: John Darwin: Globe and Empire
14: Megan Vaughan: Africa and Global History
15: Peer Vries: Writing the History of the Global
16: Sujumi So and Billy Kee Long So: Identity in Global History: A Reflection

Über Autor(innen)

Maxine Berg, Editor, is Professor of History, University of Warwick