What is Global History?ISBN: 978-0-7456-3300-8
Hardcover
152 pages
March 2008, Polity
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Others are social and cultural, touching upon issues of
migration, trade, language development and differentiation,
institutions of enslavement and of freedom, traditions of marriage
and child-rearing, the emergence of large-scale political
organization from early kingdoms to vast empires, republics and
federations, and the management of war and peace.
To deal with such challenging issues, global historians draw
upon new techniques of analysis and comparison. But they also
continue venerable traditions, inherited from the earliest
civilizations, of narrating the past on the most comprehensive and
significant scale possible.
This book examines the long search for an integrated human story, and particularly the points at which rapid changes of philosophy and perspective in the twentieth century transformed the historical disciplines. It provides the perfect introduction to global history for students and scholars alike.