Rethinking Global History

Herausgeber: Gänger, Stefanie; Osterhammel, Jürgen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This collection of essays by leading global historians sheds light on the field's conceptual foundations and analytical instruments. Readers are guided to question implicit assumptions, critically assess the extant literature and reflect on the implications of history going global. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9781009444040
• ISBN-10: 1009444042
• Artikelnr.: 70200932

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; 1. Introduction: rethinking
history, globally Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel; Part I. Forms of
Inquiry and Argumentation: 2. Explanation: the limits of narrativism in
global history Jürgen Osterhammel; 3. Comparison: its use and misuse in
social and economic history Alessandro Stanziani; 4. Time: temporality in
global history Christina Brauner; 5. Quantification: measuring connections
and comparative development in global history Pim De Zwart; Part II.
Concepts and Metaphors: 6. The global and the earthy: taking the planet
seriously as a global historian Sujit Sivasundaram; 7. Openness and
closure: spheres and other metaphors of boundedness in global history
Valeska Huber; 8. Scales: from shipworms to the globe and back Daniel
Margócsy; Part III. Configurations and Telos: 9. Tacit directionality:
processes, teleology, and contingency in global history Jan C. Jansen; 10.
Distance: a problem in global history Jeremy Adelman; 11. Materiality:
global history and the material world Stefanie Gänger; 12. Centrisms:
questions of privilege and perspective in global historical scholarship
Dominic Sachsenmaier.