Syllabus
Session 1- 6 October: Introduction
- Sebastian Conrad, What is Global History? (Princeton, 2016), introduction and ch.4.
- Maxine Berg, ‘Global history: approaches and new directions’ and ‘Panel discussion: ways forward and major challenges’, in Maxine Berg, ed., Writing the history of the global: challenges for the twenty-first century. London, 2013.
- Jeremy Adelman ‘What is Global History Now?' - (link available on Sharepoint)
- What Is Global History? A Roundtable – 20 February 2020 - (link available on Sharepoint)
Additional reading
- Richard Drayton and David Motadel, ‘Discussion: The Future of Global History’, Journal of Global History, 13:1 (2018), pp. 1-21.
- Roland Wenzlhuemer, Doing global history: an introduction in 6 concepts (London, 2020), ch. 1
Session 2 - 13 October: Methodological Approaches
- Martin Dusinberre, ‘Japan, Global History, and the Great Silence’, History Workshop Journal, 83:1 (2017), pp. 130–150.
- Gareth Austin, ‘Reciprocal Comparison and African History: Tackling Conceptual Eurocentrism in the Study of Africa's Economic Past,’ African Studies Review 50:3 (2007), pp. 1-28.
- Hideaki Suzuki, ‘Kaiiki-Shi and World/Global History: A Japanese Perspective’, in Manuel Perez Garcia, L. De Sousa (eds), Global History and New Polycentric Approaches. Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History (Singapore, 2018).
Session 3 - 20 October: Why Some Grew Rich and Others Did Not
- James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (New Haven, 2018), introduction pp. 1-36.
- Prasannan Parthasarathi and Kenneth Pomeranz, ‘The Great Divergence Debate’, in Tirthankar Roy and Giorgio Riello, eds., Global Economic History (London, 2019), 19-37.
- Thomas Piketty, Capital and ideology (Cambridge MA, 2020), Introduction.
Session 4 - 27 October: Micro-global History
- Francesca Trivellato, ‘Is there a future to Italian Microhistory in the Age of Global History?’ California Italian Studies, 2:1 (2011).
- John-Paul A. Ghobrial, ‘Introduction: Seeing the World like a Microhistorian’, Past & Present Special issue on ‘Global History and Microhistory’ 242 supplement 14 (2019), 1-22.
- Amy Stanley, ‘Maidservants' Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History in Eurasia, 1600-1900’, American Historical Review, 121:2 (2016), pp. 437–460 or chapter of Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan (London, 2020), ch. 1 ‘Faraway Places’.
- Maxine Berg, ‘Sea Otters and Iron: A Global Microhistory of Value and Exchange at Nootka Sound, 1774–1792’, Past & Present, Volume 242 Supplement 14 (2019), 50–82.
13 November. One-day workshop. The Challenges of the Global
Session 5. 10.30-12.30. Global History and its Conceptual and Physical Spaces
- Sunil S. Amrith, Unruly waters: how mountain rivers and monsoons have shaped south Asia's history (London: Penguin, 2020), chs. 1 and 7.
- David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram, eds., Oceanic Histories (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 1-28 (‘Introduction: Writing World Oceanic Histories’).
- Bathsheba Demuth, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W.W. Norton & Company, 2019), pp. 1-11 and ch. 3 pp. 73-101.
- Jane Ohlmeyer, ‘Eastward Enterprises: Colonial Ireland, Colonial India, Past & Present, 240 (2018), 83–118.
Session 6. 13.30-15.00 Whose Global Histories?
- Cornell Fleischer, Cemal Kafadar and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ‘How to Write Fake Global History’, Cromohs 10 September 2020 - (link available on Sharepoint)
Comments on this review:
- Patricia Crossley, ‘Why women have no home in global history’ - (link available on Sharepoint)
- Efe Khayyat and Ariel Salzmann — On the Perils of Thinking Globally while Writing Ottoman History: God’s Shadow and Academia’s Self-Appointed Sultans, in b20, an online journal, 1 October 2020 - (link available on Sharepoint)
- Amy Stanley, ‘On global history, “trade book history”, and why we care’ - (link available on Sharepoint)
Fleischer, Kafadar and Subrahmanyam ‘response’ to their critics:
- Cornell Fleischer, Cemal Kafadar and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ‘Romancing “American Selim”, in K24, 9 October 2020 - (link available on Sharepoint)
Session 7. (continued) 15.15-16.00 Whose Global Histories? A discussion among researchers
Session 8. 17.00-19.00 with Jeremy Adelman. Global Narratives of the Present and Presentism.
27 November. One-day workshop. Global Public History
Session 9. 10.00-12.00 with Serge Noiret (Library, EUI). What is Global Public History?
- Digital & Public History Blog
- Serge Noiret and Thomas Cauvin, ‘Internationalizing Public History’, in Paula Hamilton and James B. Gardner, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Public History (Oxford, 2017).
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Serge Noiret, ‘Digital Public History’, in David Dean (ed.): A Companion to Public History (Hoboken, Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), pp.111-124. (Link available on Sharepoint)
Session 10. 13.30-16.00 with Trevor Burnard (Hull University). Slavery and Global Public History
Part 1 14:00-15:00, Why 1619?
- `The 1619 project,’ New York Times, 14 August 2019 - (link available on Sharepoint)
- Sean Wilentz, “A Matter of Facts,” The Atlantic 22 January 2020.
- `From the Editor’s Desk: 1619 and All That,’ American Historical Review 125, 1 (2020), xv-xxi
- `Communications,’ American Historical Review 125, 2 (2020), 768-74.
- `Editor’s Note: Racist Violence in the United States,’ American Historical Review 125, 3 (2020), xiv-xvi.
- Mary O’Sullivan, “The intelligent woman’s guide to capitalism,” Enterprise and Society 19, 4 (2018), 751-802
- Slavery and Global Public History Conference: Slavery and Public History around the World - (link available on Sharepoint)
Further readings:
- H. Reuben Neptune, “Thrown’ Scholarly Shade: Eric Williams in the New Histories of Capitalism and Slavery,” Journal of the Early Republic 36 (2019), 299-326
- Mark Harvey “Slavery, Indenture and the Development of British Industrial Capitalism,” History Workshop Journal 88 (2019), 66-88
- Gavin Wright, “Slavery and Anglo-American capitalism revisited,” Economic History Review 73, 2 (2020), 353-83
- Tyler D. Parry, ‘Slavehounds and abolition in the Americas’, Past & Present 246 (2018) 69-108
Part 2. 15.00-16.00. Slavery, Public History and Black Lives Matter
- Four Abstracts of papers in the forthcoming issue of Slavery and Abolition (available on Sharepoint)
- Newspaper articles (Links available on Sharepoint)
Session 11 - 4 December: Conclusion