{"product_id":"rethinking-global-history-hardback-9781009444040","title":"Rethinking Global History (Hardback) 9781009444040","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRethinking Global History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis reassessment of global history's conceptual foundations and analytical instruments takes stock of the field and looks to its future.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStefanie Gänger (Edited by), Jürgen Osterhammel (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009444040, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.55 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a superb collection examining global history as a subfield within the historical profession.… Recommended.' S. Morillo, CHOICE\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDespite three decades of rapid expansion and public success, global history's theoretical and methodological foundations remain under-conceptualised, even to those using them. In this collection of essays, leading historians provide a reassessment of global history's most common analytical instruments, metaphors and conceptual foundations. Rethinking Global History prompts historians to pause and think about the methodology and premises underpinning their work. The volume reflects on the structure and direction of history, its relation to our present and the ways in which historians should best explain, contextualise and represent events and circumstances in the past. In chapters on fundamental concepts such as scale, comparison, temporality and teleology, this collection will guide readers to assess the extant literature critically and write theoretically informed global histories. Taken together, these essays provide a unique and much-needed assessment of the implications of history going global. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: rethinking history, globally Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Forms of Inquiry and Argumentation: 2. Explanation: the limits of narrativism in global history Jürgen Osterhammel\u003cbr\u003e 3. Comparison: its use and misuse in social and economic history Alessandro Stanziani\u003cbr\u003e 4. Time: temporality in global history Christina Brauner\u003cbr\u003e 5. Quantification: measuring connections and comparative development in global history Pim De Zwart\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Concepts and Metaphors: 6. The global and the earthy: taking the planet seriously as a global historian Sujit Sivasundaram\u003cbr\u003e 7. Openness and closure: spheres and other metaphors of boundedness in global history Valeska Huber\u003cbr\u003e 8. Scales: from shipworms to the globe and back Daniel Margócsy\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Configurations and Telos: 9. Tacit directionality: processes, teleology, and contingency in global history Jan C. Jansen\u003cbr\u003e 10. Distance: a problem in global history Jeremy Adelman\u003cbr\u003e 11. Materiality: global history and the material world Stefanie Gänger\u003cbr\u003e 12. Centrisms: questions of privilege and perspective in global historical scholarship Dominic Sachsenmaier.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52414013276440,"sku":"9781009444040","price":75.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009444040i.jpg?v=1784335849","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rethinking-global-history-hardback-9781009444040","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}