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Historiographical traditions and modern imperatives for the restoration of global history

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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.

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  • O’Brien, Patrick, 2006. "Historiographical traditions and modern imperatives for the restoration of global history," Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 1(1), pages 3-39, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jglhis:v:1:y:2006:i:01:p:3-39_00
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    1. Guimel Hernández-Garay, 2018. "Consumption of Chinese silk fabrics in Marseille and Seville, 1680 – 1840," Working Papers 18.01, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History.
    2. Kent G. Deng, 2008. "Miracle Or Mirage? Foreign Silver, China'S Economy And Globalization From The Sixteenth To The Nineteenth Centuries," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 13(3), pages 320-357, August.

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