Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress. And yet it often suffers from the same Eurocentrism that plagues national history, accepting Western categories and values uncritically and largely ignoring non-English historiographies. Alessandro Stanziani examines these tensions and asks what global history is and ought to be. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, he historicizes global h...
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1. Why we need global history.- 2. Connected historiographies in expanding worlds, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.- 3. Inventing modernity.- 4. The end of the old order: ...
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Alessandro Stanziani is Professor of Global History at EHESS and Senior Researcher at CNRS, France.