Global social history: rethinking class and social transformation in the modern world

Dejung, Christof and Motadel, David ORCID: 0000-0002-2218-618X (2024) Global social history: rethinking class and social transformation in the modern world. Historical Journal, 67 (4). 611 - 633. ISSN 0018-246X

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Abstract

The rise of global history has fundamentally reshaped historical scholarship over recent years. Questions about class structures, however, have rarely been specifically addressed by global historians. Scholars of social history, meanwhile, have traditionally studied social stratification within national frameworks. The introduction to this special issue addresses these shortcomings, exploring global social history as a new field of historical inquiry. Interweaving global and social history, it demonstrates that we cannot understand the emergence and transformation of social groups across the modern world – groups such as the aristocracy, the economic bourgeoisie, the educated middle classes, the peasantry, or nomadic groups – without considering how they were influenced by global entanglements. Moreover, it points out that we have to examine globalization as a social process that was shaped by particular social groups. The special issue will connect the study of global connectivity with that of the emergence and evolution of social structures.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical...
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	International History
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) H Social Sciences
Date Deposited:	02 Jan 2024 14:45
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2024 17:27
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/121126

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