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 why the
discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and
innovative field in history--one that takes the connectedness of
the world as its point of departure, and that poses a fundamental
challenge to the premises and methods of history as we know it.
What Is Global History? provides a comprehensive overview of this
exciting new approach to history. The book addresses some of the
biggest questions the discipline will face in the twenty-first
century: How does global history differ from other interpretations
of world history? How do we write a global history that is not
Eurocentric yet does not fall into the trap of creating new
centrisms? How can historians compare different societies and
establish compatibility across space? What are the politics of
global history? This in-depth and accessible book also explores the
limits of the new paradigm and even its dangers, the question of
whom global history should be written for, and much more. Written
by a leading expert in the field, What Is Global History? shows
how, by understanding the world's past as an integrated whole,
historians can remap the terrain of their discipline for our
globalized present.
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