Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals w
What is Global History?
✍ Scribed by Pamela Crossley
- Publisher
- Polity
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 72
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction
1 The Great Story Impulse
2 Divergence
3 Convergence
4 Contagion
5 Systems
6 What Global History is
Bibliography
Index
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