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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299800703321

Autore

Stanziani Alessandro

Titolo

Eurocentrism and the Politics of Global History / / by Alessandro Stanziani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-94740-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 153 p.)

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

World history

Historiography

Imperialism

Intellectual life—History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Historiography and Method

Imperialism and Colonialism

Intellectual Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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: History, nationalisms and totalitarianism -- 5. Global history in the Cold War and decolonization.

Sommario/riassunto

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 history writing from the sixteenth century onwards, tracing the forces of revolution, globalization, totalitarianism, colonization, decolonization and the Cold War. By considering global history in the context of a longue durée, multipolar perspective, this



book assesses the strengths and limits of the field, and clarifies what is at stake.