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重新思考全球史

基本信息

Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel (eds.), Rethinking Global History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

内容与作者简介

About this book

Despite three decades of rapid expansion and public success, global history's theoretical and methodological foundations remain under-conceptualised, even to those using them. In this collection of essays, leading historians provide a reassessment of global history's most common analytical instruments, metaphors and conceptual foundations. Rethinking Global History prompts historians to pause and think about the methodology and premises underpinning their work. The volume reflects on the structure and direction of history, its relation to our present and the ways in which historians should best explain, contextualise and represent events and circumstances in the past. In chapters on fundamental concepts such as scale, comparison, temporality and teleology, this collection will guide readers to assess the extant literature critically and write theoretically informed global histories. Taken together, these essays provide a unique and much-needed assessment of the implications of history going global.

关于本书

尽管全球史在过去三十年中迅速发展并获得公众认可，但其理论和方法论基础仍然概念化不足，即使是对那些正在使用这些方法的人而言也是如此。在这部论文集中，领先的历史学家对全球史最常用的分析工具、隐喻和概念基础进行了重新评估。《重新思考全球史》促使历史学家停下来思考其工作所依据的方法论和前提。本卷反思了历史的结构和方向、历史与我们当下的关系，以及历史学家应如何最好地解释、语境化并呈现过去的事件和环境。通过对规模、比较、时间性和目的论等基本概念的章节探讨，本书将引导读者批判性地评估现有文献，并撰写理论基础扎实的全球史。总体而言，这些论文提供了对历史走向全球化所带来影响的独特且亟需的评估。

About the author

Stefanie Gänger is Professor of Modern History at Heidelberg University. She is the author of A Singular Remedy. Cinchona Across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Relics of the Past. The Collecting and Study of pre-Columbian Antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837–1911 (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Jürgen Osterhammel is Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz. His books in English include The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2014). With Akira Iriye, he is the general editor of A History of the World (6 vols., Harvard University Press, 2012–24).

关于作者

斯特凡妮·甘格尔是海德堡大学现代史教授。她著有《独特的疗法：金鸡纳在大西洋世界，1751-1820》（剑桥大学出版社，2020年）和《过去的遗物：秘鲁和智利前哥伦布时期古物的收藏与研究，1837-1911》（牛津大学出版社，2014年）。

于尔根·奥斯特哈梅尔是康斯坦茨大学现代和当代史荣休教授。他的英文著作包括《世界的转变：十九世纪的全球史》（普林斯顿大学出版社，2014年）。他与入江昭共同担任《世界史》（6卷，哈佛大学出版社，2012-2024年）总主编。