What Is Global History?
Sebastian Conrad, "What Is Global History?"
English | ISBN: 0691155259 | 2016 | 312 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0691155259 | 2016 | 312 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global history
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.
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