Diego Olstein

Thinking History Globally (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing, using twelve different branches of history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137318145
• Artikelnr.: 41941522

Autorenporträt

Diego Olstein is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Associate Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He has published widely on Medieval Spain, World History, and historiography, and has taught and lectured on these subjects in Argentina, Israel, Europe, the US, Australia, and China.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Theory in Practice 2. Twelve Branches in their Singularities, Overlaps, and Clusters 3. Comparing or Connecting 4. Comparing and Connecting 5. Varieties of Connections 6. Conceptualizing through Social Sciences 7. Thinking Globalization Historically 8. Contextualizing in Bigger Scales 9. All Together Now, a Last Rehearsal: Thinking Globally on Border Crossing Phenomena, the First World War Analytical Bibliography

Rezensionen

"This is one of many volumes devoted to the search for a proper historiography fitting the human life that is now being lived globally and thus must be understood accordingly. ... Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries." (A. Breisach, Choice, Vol. 53 (1), September, 2015)