Eurocentrism and the Politics of Global History

• Main Author: Stanziani, Alessandro (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: World history.; Historiography.; Imperialism.; Intellectual life-History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Historiography and Method.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Intellectual Studies.

Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress. And yet it often suffers from the same Eurocentrism that plagues national history, accepting Western categories and values uncritically and largely ignoring n...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Why we need global history
• 2. Connected historiographies in expanding worlds, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
• 3. Inventing modernity
• 4. The end of the old order: History, nationalisms and totalitarianism
• 5. Global history in the Cold War and decolonization.