Beckert, Sven

Global history, globally : research and practice around the world / Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier. - London : Bloomsbury Academic, ©2018. - xiii, 306 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier -- Part I: Regions. 1. Global history in (Northwestern) Europe: Explorations and Debates / Gareth Austin -- 2. Re-presenting Asia on the global stage: the rise of global history in East Asia / Q. Edward Wang -- 3. Latin America and the Caribbean: traditions of global history / Rafael Maquese and João Paulo Pimenta -- 4. African history and global history: revisiting paradigms / Omar Gueye -- 5. Deconstructing imperial and national narratives in Turkey and the Arab Middle East / Selçuk Esenbel and Meltem Toksöz -- 6. The World History Project: global history in the North American Context / Jerry H. Bentley -- Part II: Central themes in global history. 7. New perspectives on workers and the history of work: global labor history / Andreas Eckert and Marcel van der Linden -- 8. Scale, scope and scholarship: regional practices and global economic histories / Kenneth Pomeranz -- 9. Global histories of migration(s) / Amit Kumar Mishra -- 10. The challenge of the global in intellectual history / Dominic Sachsenmaier and Andrew Sartori -- Part III: Problems in the practice of global history. 11. Writing world history in Africa: opportunities, constraints and challenges / David Simo -- 12. World history, nationally: how has the national appropriated the transnational in East Asian historiography? / Jie-Hyun Lim -- 13. Writing the globe from the edges: approaches to the making of global history in Australia / Marnie Hughes-Warrington -- 14. Japanese efforts to overcome Eurocentric paradigms in the study of global history / Shigeru Akita

"Global history has become one of the most dynamic fields within the discipline of history. The debates surrounding this enormously productive scholarship, however, have remained rather provincial in scope. [This book] addresses this by surveying the state of global history in different world regions"-- Back cover

978-1-3500-3634-5


Globalization -- History
World history
Historiography

DC 303.482 / B396