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Autore |
Sachsenmaier Dominic |
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Global perspectives on global history : theories and approaches in a connected world / / Dominic Sachsenmaier [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
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1-107-22032-7 |
1-139-12470-6 |
1-283-29854-6 |
1-139-12318-1 |
9786613298546 |
0-511-73654-1 |
1-139-11743-2 |
1-139-12809-4 |
1-139-11307-0 |
1-139-11526-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 331 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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World history |
Civilization |
Globalization |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : neglected diversities -- Movements and patterns : environments of global history -- A term and a trend : contours in the United States -- On the margins of a troubled nation : approaches in Germany -- Another world? : thinking globally about history in China -- Eilogue : global history in a plural world. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement have remained limited in scope as theoretical exchanges on the tasks, responsibilities and potentials of global history have been largely confined to national or regional academic communities. In this |
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groundbreaking book, Dominic Sachsenmaier sets out to redress this imbalance by offering a series of new perspectives on the global and local flows, sociologies of knowledge and hierarchies that are an intrinsic part of historical practice. Taking the United States, Germany and China as his main case studies, he reflects upon the character of different approaches to global history as well as their social, political and cultural contexts. He argues that this new global trend in historiography needs to be supported by a corresponding increase in transnational dialogue, cooperation and exchange. |
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