Subject |
History, Modern -- 21st century.
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Globalization -- 21st century.
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Historiography -- Congresses.
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Descript |
xiv, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Note |
Papers from a conference held in 2009. |
Contents |
1. Global history: approaches and new directions / Maxine Berg -- pt. I Interpretations: Ideas and the Making of Global History -- 2. Problems in global history / David Washbrook -- 3. Reflections on doing global history / Jan De Vries -- 4. Notes on some discontents in the historical narrative / Jean-Frederic Schaub -- pt. II Approaches: Methods and Methodologies in Global History -- 5. Comparison in global history / Prasannan Parthasarathi -- 6. Regions and global history / R. Bin Wong -- 7. Institutions for writing the economic history of the global / Jan Luiten Van Zanden -- pt. III Shaping Global History -- 8. Writing about divergences in global history: some implications for scale, methods, aims, and categories / Kenneth Pomeranz -- 9. The European miracle in global history: an East Asian perspective / Kaoru Sugihara -- pt. IV Knowledge and Global History -- 10. Technology and innovation in global history and in the history of the global / Dagmar Schafer -- 11. The art of global comparisons / Craig Clunas -- 12. Global objects: contention and entanglement / Giorgio Riello -- pt. V Round Table -- 13. Panel discussion: ways forward and major challenges -- Globe and empire / John Darwin -- Africa and global history / Megan Vaughan -- Writing the history of the global and the state / Peer Vries -- Identity in global history: a reflection / Billy Kee-Long So. |
Alt author |
Berg, Maxine, 1950-
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ISBN |
9780197265321 (pbk.) |
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0197265324 (pbk.) |
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