Global history
It is important to distinguish between global history and world history. The latter is seen as emerging in the post-war period, in reaction to the perceived limitations of the Eurocentric, nation-state based histories of the past (though the work of the Annales School had already hinted at this direction). While the whole of past history was seen as the subject of world history, the global history that has subsequently emerged is instead concerned with the history of globalization, and the study of processes of globalization in the past. Criticised by post-modernists and subaltern historians for allegedly imposing Western metanarratives upon other peoples' histories, and by specialists for lacking in-depth knowledge, global history has sought to take these arguments on board as the growing interest in globalization has made the study of its past more popular.
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- Historians:
- Barraclough, Geoffrey
Braudel, Fernand
McNeill, William
Toynbee, Arnold Joseph - Themes:
- Annales school
Comparative history
Long history
Related publications
- The Global History Reader, ed. Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye (New York, 2005)
