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Global History and New Polycentric Approaches
Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System, Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
ISBN/EAN: 9789811040528
Umbreit-Nr.: 1218195
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xxx, 352 S., 30 s/w Illustr., 352 p. 30 illus.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 21.12.2017
Auflage: 1/2018
- Zusatztext
- This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its emergence in Asia with the rapid development of the Chinese economy motivation to legitimate the current uniqueness of the history and economy of the nation. It contributes to the revitalization of the field of global history in Chinese historiography, which have been dominated by national narratives and promotes a debate to open new venues in which important features such as scholarly mobility, diversity and internationalization are firmly rooted, putting aside national specificities. Dealing with new approaches on the use of empirical data by framing the proper questions and hypotheses and connecting western and eastern sources, this text opens a new forum of discussion on how global history has penetrated in western and eastern historiographies, moving the pivotal axis of analysis from national perspectives to open new venues of global history.
- Kurztext
- This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its emergence in Asia with the rapid development of the Chinese economy motivation to legitimate the current uniqueness of the history and economy of the nation. It contributes to the revitalization of the field of global history in Chinese historiography, which have been dominated by national narratives and promotes a debate to open new venues in which important features such as scholarly mobility, diversity and internationalization are firmly rooted, putting aside national specificities. Dealing with new approaches on the use of empirical data by framing the proper questions and hypotheses and connecting western and eastern sources, this text opens a new forum of discussion on how global history has penetrated in western and eastern historiographies, moving the pivotal axis of analysis from national perspectives to open new venues of global history.
- Autorenportrait
- Manuel Perez is tenured Associate Professor at the Department of History, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He obtained his PhD at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has been awarded with an ERC (European Research Council)-Starting Grant, Horizon 2020 to conduct the GECEM project - 679371 (Global Encounters between China and Europe) www.gecem.eu. He is founder and director of the Global History Network (GHN) in China www.globalhistorynetwork.co, Distinguished Professor by the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain), European host institution of GECEM. He was research fellow at UCBerkeley, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) in 2011, and visiting professor at UNAM (Mexico) and University of Macerata (Italy). Among his publications stands out Vicarious Consumers, published in 2013. Dr Lucio de Sousa is Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan). Lúcio de Sousa was a Research Associate - University of Evora (Portugal) - NICPRI - Centre of Research in Political Science and International Relations and FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) Post-Doctoral Fellow. His primary field of research is the slave trade.