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…
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Journal of Global History is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Colonialism, slavery, and trade, Historical Economic and Social Studies.
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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| Reference style | Numbered Numbered — [1], [2] in the text [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Journal of Global History 12 (2023) 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Colonialism, slavery, and trade Historical Economic and Social Studies Global Maritime and Colonial Histories Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics |
| ISSN | 1740-0228 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.41 |
| h-index | 50 |
| i10-index | 253 |
| Total citations | 10,293 |
| Top institutions publishing here | International Institute of Social History |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org |
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Abstract Global history has come under attack. It is charged with neglecting national history and the ‘small spaces’ of the past, with being an elite globalist project made irrelevant by the anti-globalist politics of our age, with focusing exclusively on mobile people and things, and with becoming dangerously hegemonic. This article demonstrates that global history…
Abstract Between 3000 BCE and 1800 CE there were more than sixty ‘mega-empires’ that, at the peak, controlled an area of at least one million square kilometres. What were the forces that kept together such huge pre-industrial states? I propose a model for one route to mega-empire, motivated by imperial dynamics in eastern Asia, the…
This article explores the past, present, and possible future directions of the ‘‘new thalassology’’ [from the ancient Greek thalassa, ‘‘sea’’] and Indian Ocean studies from its humble beginnings in the 1950s and 1960s, and the cross-fertilization between the ‘Annales’ school and world-systems analysis in the 1980s, to its – admittedly incomplete – institutionalization in the…
Abstract Globalization can be interpreted as a dialectical process of de- and re-territorialization. The challenges to existing borders that limit economic, socio-cultural, and political activities, and the establishment of new borders as the result of such activities, bring about certain consolidated structures of spatiality, while at the same time societies develop regulatory regimes to use…