Writing Global History (or Trying to)

Autor/innen

  • John Darwin Nuffield College, Oxford University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2009-20-2-4

Schlagworte:

Global history, national history, European imperialism, decolonization, globalization

Abstract

Writing global history confronts the historian with a series of chal- lenges, some new, some (on closer inspection) quite familiar. This article examines several of the more obvious of these and attempts to explain how far the author took them into account in constructing an account of world history over the longue duree in After Tamerlane: the rise and fall of global empires 1400–2000 (2007). It also presents a necessarily brief summary of some of the criticisms that the book’s reviewers have made.

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Veröffentlicht

2009-08-01

Zitationsvorschlag

Darwin, J. (2009). Writing Global History (or Trying to). Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 20(2), 59–74. https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2009-20-2-4

Ausgabe

Bd. 20 Nr. 2 (2009): Global History

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research paper