Historical traditions and modern imperatives for the restoration of global history

O'Brien, Patrick (2006) Historical traditions and modern imperatives for the restoration of global history. Journal of Global History, 1 (1). pp. 3-39. ISSN 1740-0228

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Abstract

This essay has been written to serve as a prolegomenon for a new journal in Global History. It opens with a brief depiction of the two major approaches to the field (through connexions and comparisons) and moves on to survey first European and then other historiographical traditions in writing ‘centric’ histories up to the times of the Imperial Meridian 1783–1825, when Europe’s geopolitical power over all other parts of the world became hegemonic. Thereafter, and for the past two centuries, all historiographical traditions converged either to celebrate or react to the rise of the ‘West’. The case for the restoration of Global History rests upon its potential to construct negotiable meta-narratives, based upon serious scholarship that will become cosmopolitan in outlook and meet the needs of our globalizing world.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna...
Additional Information:	© 2006 The London School of Economics and Political Science
Divisions:	Economic History
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Date Deposited:	18 Dec 2009 10:14
Last Modified:	11 Apr 2024 22:21
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/26471

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