Global History 2025/2026

General description:
Global History has come into its own as a scholarly enterprise at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Spurred by ongoing processes of globalization, it flourishes as one of the most critical developments in the discipline of history today. This course will introduce students to the literature on and practice of global history, looking at the relationship between Europe and the rest of the world from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. In this course, global Entanglements and local specificities, interactions, and hierarchies will be expressed in critical historical approaches. Moreover, global history will be investigated on defined objects and multiple scales (of objects themselves, time and space). The course will be divided into two main parts. After a week dedicated to the historiographical debates related to Global history, the primary focus of the classes will be on Actors and Spaces on a global scale. Students will be expected to write a short research paper on a topic in global history.
Contents:
Every week consists of 3 classes (2 hours each).



Week 1
Why global history? The historiographical debate, and beyond
Week 2
Actors. Migration and exile: the making of the modern global world
Week 3
Actors. Transnational War Volunteers as global actors in Modern Times
Week 4
Actors. Global radical lives
Week 5
Mid-Term test and “How to write a research paper”?
Week 6
Spaces. Revolutions in global perspective
Week 7
Spaces. Globalizing the decolonization
Week 8
Spaces. Red Internationalism
Week 9
A global approach to our times and general conclusions of the course

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