Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World [Paperback]

Discusses global historical research as a global and diverse movement. Case studies focus on China, Germany and the United States.Dominic Sachsenmaier examines both the transnational dynamics and networks of global history through case studies on China, Germany and the United States. By extending these local and global connections and integrating approaches to the subject from across the world, he demonstrates how historians can enrich their conceptions of global history.Dominic Sachsenmaier examines both the transnational dynamics and networks of global history through case studies on China, Germany and the United States. By extending these local and global connections and integrating approaches to the subject from across the world, he demonstrates how historians can enrich their conceptions of global history.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.Introduction: neglected diversities; 1. Movements and patterns: environments of global history; 2. A term and a trend: contours in the United States; 3. On the margins of a troublÓ,