What Is Global History?

by Sebastian Conrad

Book Overview

The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global history

Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691178194
• ISBN13: 9780691178196
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"