Theories and Approaches in a Connected World / [electronic resource] Sachsenmaier, Dominic creator author. text enk 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement have remained limited in scope as theoretical exchanges on the tasks, responsibilities and potentials of global history have been largely confined to national or regional academic communities. In this groundbreaking book, Dominic Sachsenmaier sets out to redress this imbalance by offering a series of new perspectives on the global and local flows, sociologies of knowledge and hierarchies that are an intrinsic part of historical practice. Taking the United States, Germany and China as his main case studies, he reflects upon the character of different approaches to global history as well as their social, political and cultural contexts. He argues that this new global trend in historiography needs to be supported by a corresponding increase in transnational dialogue, cooperation and exchange. Dominic Sachsenmaier. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). World history Civilization Globalization D23 .S24 2011 901 9780511736544 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511736544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511736544 UkCbUP 100401 20180107143412.0 CR9780511736544