GLOBAL HISTORY NOTES- SEEN TEST
TO WHAT EXTENT DOES GLOBAL HISTORY HAVE TO BE COMPARATIVE?
WHAT IS GLOBAL HISTORY
FROM LECTURE SLIDES:
o KEY COMPONENTS ARE:
FOCUS ON MOVEMENT, CIRCULATION, CONNECTIONS.
EXCHANGES, INTERACTIONS
EMBRACE OF MULTIPLE VIEWPOINTS
NEW UNITS OF ANALYSIS
COMPARISON (SIMILARITY/DIFFERENCE)
o MOST HISTORIANS AGREE THAT GLOBAL HISTORY AT HEART
COMPARES DIFFERENT REGIONAL CASE STUDIES, BUT
REFERS TO CONNECTIONS AROUND THE GLOBE THAT
STIPULATE CERTAIN IDEAS
EG HISTORY OF RACISM- YOU CAN COMPARE HOW
RACISM DEVELOPED IN TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES,
BUT GLOBAL HISTORY ALSO TRACES HOW IDEOLOGIES,
IDEAS IMPACT DIFFERENT LOCAL EGS OF RACISM-
RACISMS CONNECTED. SEE P4 GLOBAL HISTORY
GLOBALLY, RESEARCH AND PRACTISE AROUND THE
WORLD, (ED) SVEN BECKERT, DOMINIC SACHSENMAIER
HISTORIANS THAT AGREE- ABOVE AND SEBASTIAN
CONRAD
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/event/eve
nts/chapter_4.pdf
, Concept of globalization separes world history from global history as a unit
of analysis: Thinking History Globally, Diego Olstein
https://networks.h-net.org/node/20292/discussions/66052/defining-world-history-vs-global-
history
"An Introduction to Global History" by Bruce Mazlish which is in "Conceptualizing
Global History" (Westview Press, 1993) Mazlish argues that the essential
difference between "World" History and "Global" History is that "Global"
historians consciously begin from the present and specifically with the issue of
"the globalization proceeding apace today" (p. 4). http://www.hartford-
hwp.com/archives/10/022.html
Global history can be understood variously as either the history of globalization and global trends; a
methodology that analyses local, regional and supra-regional histories within global or transnational
networks and ‘connectivity’; an approach that seeks to ‘de-centre’ Europe in world history; or a
spatial perspective that shifts the level of enquiry away from the nation-state to other scales of
analysis.
https://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/HistoryAndCivilization/ResearchAndTeaching/
Seminars/2017-2018-1st-term/DS-Global-History-GrafeRiall
Ibn Khaldun, who held that an accurate understanding of the world
depended on our ability to trace the long-term evolution of societies…
methods that are systematic, comparative and objective p.21
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy4.lib.le.ac.uk/stable/pdf/25651211.pdf?
refreqid=excelsior%3A6c59c55f73fb6caccbe699e0dfd6bc6f
an attempt to bring order to world history by promoting comparative
studies, and the history of globalization, which attempts to bring order to
world history by promoting comparative studies (Mazlish and Buultjens
1993; Hopkins 2001; Bentley 2004).
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy4.lib.le.ac.uk/stable/pdf/25651211.pdf?
refreqid=excelsior%3A6c59c55f73fb6caccbe699e0dfd6bc6f
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TO WHAT EXTENT DOES GLOBAL HISTORY HAVE TO BE COMPARATIVE?
WHAT IS GLOBAL HISTORY
FROM LECTURE SLIDES:
o KEY COMPONENTS ARE:
FOCUS ON MOVEMENT, CIRCULATION, CONNECTIONS.
EXCHANGES, INTERACTIONS
EMBRACE OF MULTIPLE VIEWPOINTS
NEW UNITS OF ANALYSIS
COMPARISON (SIMILARITY/DIFFERENCE)
o MOST HISTORIANS AGREE THAT GLOBAL HISTORY AT HEART
COMPARES DIFFERENT REGIONAL CASE STUDIES, BUT
REFERS TO CONNECTIONS AROUND THE GLOBE THAT
STIPULATE CERTAIN IDEAS
EG HISTORY OF RACISM- YOU CAN COMPARE HOW
RACISM DEVELOPED IN TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES,
BUT GLOBAL HISTORY ALSO TRACES HOW IDEOLOGIES,
IDEAS IMPACT DIFFERENT LOCAL EGS OF RACISM-
RACISMS CONNECTED. SEE P4 GLOBAL HISTORY
GLOBALLY, RESEARCH AND PRACTISE AROUND THE
WORLD, (ED) SVEN BECKERT, DOMINIC SACHSENMAIER
HISTORIANS THAT AGREE- ABOVE AND SEBASTIAN
CONRAD
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/event/eve
nts/chapter_4.pdf
, Concept of globalization separes world history from global history as a unit
of analysis: Thinking History Globally, Diego Olstein
https://networks.h-net.org/node/20292/discussions/66052/defining-world-history-vs-global-
history
"An Introduction to Global History" by Bruce Mazlish which is in "Conceptualizing
Global History" (Westview Press, 1993) Mazlish argues that the essential
difference between "World" History and "Global" History is that "Global"
historians consciously begin from the present and specifically with the issue of
"the globalization proceeding apace today" (p. 4). http://www.hartford-
hwp.com/archives/10/022.html
Global history can be understood variously as either the history of globalization and global trends; a
methodology that analyses local, regional and supra-regional histories within global or transnational
networks and ‘connectivity’; an approach that seeks to ‘de-centre’ Europe in world history; or a
spatial perspective that shifts the level of enquiry away from the nation-state to other scales of
analysis.
https://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/HistoryAndCivilization/ResearchAndTeaching/
Seminars/2017-2018-1st-term/DS-Global-History-GrafeRiall
Ibn Khaldun, who held that an accurate understanding of the world
depended on our ability to trace the long-term evolution of societies…
methods that are systematic, comparative and objective p.21
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy4.lib.le.ac.uk/stable/pdf/25651211.pdf?
refreqid=excelsior%3A6c59c55f73fb6caccbe699e0dfd6bc6f
an attempt to bring order to world history by promoting comparative
studies, and the history of globalization, which attempts to bring order to
world history by promoting comparative studies (Mazlish and Buultjens
1993; Hopkins 2001; Bentley 2004).
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy4.lib.le.ac.uk/stable/pdf/25651211.pdf?
refreqid=excelsior%3A6c59c55f73fb6caccbe699e0dfd6bc6f
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