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Apr 8, 2022 · Globalization was about the integration of worldviews, products, ideas and culture. This fit in with an academic theory that had been floating around called Modernization Theory. The idea was that ...
Jan 10, 2024 · And what they don't realize is that what we've really been living through is an exceptional period, an anomaly in world history, in which, for around 70, 75 years, the world was governed, was ...
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global histories connected and compared
Meanwhile, global historians, with a few prominent exceptions, have remained indifferent to the history of capitalism.16 This may be partly explained by the sway of cultural theory in the historical discipline since the 1980s and an increasing suspicion of ‘grand narratives’.17 By the moment of the field’s emergence in the 1990s, for a historical profession in the midst of its cultural turn and under the apparent hegemony of neoliberalism, ‘capitalism’ was invisible. One effect of that invisi...
capitalism and global history in past and present: a narrative reappraisal
Over the course of our conversations, it became clear to us that the history of capitalism’s struggle to define its subject and global history’s difficulties in coming to grips with power and causality shared common roots. They suggested three related hypotheses for further investigation. The first is that the history of capitalism will not be able to meaningfully corral its subject until it grapples with the way that capitalism itself moves beyond the bounds of the nation state, as a connect...
capitalism in global history
The newest iteration of the global history of capitalism has returned to the question that drove Hobsbawm and Brenner’s theoretical excursions. Yet some of the conclusions that recent historians have drawn about the nature and development of (especially North American) capitalism fall into similar conceptual traps. Capitalism became about wage labour, they argue, but only after passing through a stage where it was, essentially, about slavery. But that reconfiguration, however promising and ge...
- Andrew David Edwards, Peter Hill, Juan Neves-Sarriegui
- 2020
Jan 25, 2018 · Moore’s global history is, frankly, messy; and yet there is a global medieval history that can usefully be discussed, looking at trade routes and the movement of prized commodities, the spread of religious ideas and of course the migration of people, encompassing parts of sub-Saharan Africa as well as Europe, the Middle East and the sea-routes towards the East Indies, China and even Japan.
- David Abulafia
- 2018
Mar 7, 2016 · It's a common question that teachers of global history face. We belong to one of the most quickly-moving, contested, and changing subfields within the historical profession, and the travel schedules on many of our dockets—Istanbul one week, Tokyo the next—make our colleagues who slave away in the same provincial state archive blush.
Nov 8, 2017 · The co-author of a widely-used world history textbook, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (2002; 5 th edition, 2017), which privileged what he calls global “convergence stories”; in the light of the current widespread ‘anti-global backlash’ Adelman no longer believes that narratives which uncritically celebrate global integration and interconnectedness provide a satisfactory response to the ...
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Jan 5, 2022 · In the Netherlands, for example, the Dutch far right has risen by repositioning Dutch history as a great conflict between Christianity and Islam. Though few historians would accept this portrayal ...
