Concepts and Sources of Global History (original) (raw)
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This seminar offers a cursory overview of recent approaches to global history. By discussing writings and research widely drawn upon by global historians, the seminar provides students with a toolkit for understanding better the last decades' turn away from nation-centered ways of seeing history, which have given way to histories focusing on the movements of people, goods, and ideas across boundaries and on how these movements have been determinants of historical change. The seminar situates global history within related fields, such as transnational history or imperial history. It is also designed to guide students in the exploration of their particular research interests to be followed during the second year of this MA.
Global History and International Relations
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The Post-Cold War world order fueled discussions in the field of Humanities on theoretical and methodological resources in the very attempt to understand and explain the increasingly multi-polarized and complex international system. While considering the field of History — especially in its attempt to theoretically and methodologically cross borders — and while being active in the field of International Relations, we see possibilities of fruitful encounters between both areas of research, particularly when it comes to recent discussions on what came to be called in the 1990s “global history”. The article initially presents a conceptual definition of global history; then moves on to underpin its claim that History and IR areentangled disciplines that, despite different theoretical points of departure, not only share similar basic assumptions (state-centrism and the Western intellectual framework of thought) but also have been sharing similar intellectual preoccupations. In the third ...
Approaching (Global) History as a Discipline
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Global history takes the connectedness of the world as its point of departure and therefore thrives on the diversity of disciplinary backgrounds of its practitioners. As a historically contingent academic field, global history is premised upon developments and critiques that arose when the discipline of history realized the challenges of global integration. This happened as a long and complex process, which makes finding your way into global history especially difficult for students who have not completed previous degrees in history. Therefore, this course is designed for those who feel they are new and maybe slightly uneasy with the "who is who" and "what is what" of history. Structured along a rough chronology, we will explore the history of history, from the likes of Ranke and Braudel to the cultural, linguistic and other important "turns" that reshaped the discipline and are the fundamental prehistory of global history. Along with this exploration of some of the main intellectual currents of history's history, the course will familiarize students with the practice of history and its heuristic methods.
Rivista italiana di storia internazionale, 2018
The purpose of this essay is to explore some of the ramifications of the global turn specifically for the field of international history, which is a distinct approach even if it shares many concerns, and critics, with global history. By highlighting several important examples of international history inflected by global history, the essay aims to show that while the latter has not simply supplanted the former - important work in international history that is not especially globalist continues to appear every day - it does bring many benefits and open up new lines of inquiry. In particular, two very active subjects of investigation within international history are analyzed here: the Cold War and anti-colonial/post-colonial international history.