070151 UE Course on Methodology in Global History and Global Studies (2023W)

5.10 Introduction and Practicalities

12.10 Beyond Eurocentrism and Methodological Nationalism
Readings:
• Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller, “Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology”, International Migration Review, 37, 3 (2002), pp. 576-610
• Adam Mc Keown, “Global Migration, 1846-1940”, Journal of World History, 15, 2 (2004), pp. 155-189.

19.10 What is “the global” in Global history?
Readings:
• Sebastian Conrad, What is Global History?, chapter 3 (pp. 37-61)
• Dominic Sachsenmaier, “Global History and Critiques of Western Perspectives”, Comparative Education, 42, 3, Special Issue 32 (2006), pp. 451-470.
Suggested reading:
• Sebastian Conrad, What is Global History?, chapter 4 (pp. 62-89).

9.11 Periodisations
Readings:
• Joseph C. Miller, “History and Africa / Africa in History”, The American Historical Review, 104, 1 (1999), pp. 1-32
• Gennaro Ascione, “Unthinking Modernity: Historical-Sociological, Epistemological and Logical Pathways”, Journal of Historical Sociology, 27, 3 (December 2014), pp. 463-489
• Peter Frankopan, “Why we need to Think About the Global Middle Ages”, Journal of Medieval Worlds, 1, 1 (2019), pp. 5-10.

16.11 Comparisons and connections 1
Readings:
• Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, “Covering the World: Textile Workers and Globalization, 1650–2000 Experiences and Results of a Collective Research Project”, in Marcel van der Linden (Ed.), Labour History Beyond Borders: Concepts and Explorations, 2010, pp. 111-138.
• Gareth Austin, “Reciprocal Comparison and African History: Tackling Conceptual Eurocentrism in the Study of Africa’s Economic Past”, African Studies Review, 50, 3 (December 2007), pp. 1-28.

23.11 Comparisons and connections 2
Readings:
• Michael Werner and Bénédicte Zimmermann, “Beyond Comparison: Histoire croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity”, History and Theory, 45 (February 2006), pp. 30-50
• Giuseppe Marcocci, „Catholic Missions and Native Subaltern Workers: Connected Micro-Histories of Labour from India and Brazil, ca. 1545–1560“, In: C.G. De Vito and Anne Gerritsen (eds.), Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour, Palgrave, 2018, pp. 69-93.

30.11 Doing global history: Contact zones
Readings:
• Jeppe Mulich, “Microregionalism and intercolonial relations: the case of the Danish West Indies, 1730-1830”, Journal of Global History, 8, 2013, pp. 72-94.
• Birgit Tremml-Werner, Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644, pp. 267-290

7.12 Doing global history: Global lives (people and objects)
Readings:
• John-Paul Ghobrial, “The Secret Life of Elias of Babylon and the Uses of Global Microhistory”, Past & Present, 222, 1 (February 2014), pp. 51-93.
• Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello, “Introduction”, in idem, The Global Lives of Things: Material Culture in the First Global Age, pp. 1-28

14.12 The sources and archives of global history
Readings:
• Clare Anderson, “Introduction”, in idem, Subaltern Lives. Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920, pp. 1-22
• Johan Heinsen, Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World. Convicts, Sailors and a Dissonant Empire, pp. 21-45

11.1 Narrating “the global”
Assignment:
Submit your review of two scholarly publications (articles or chapters in edited volumes)

18.1 Discussion on “The crisis of global history?”
Readings:
• C.A. Bayly and others, “AHR Conversation: On Transnational History”, The American Historical Review, 111, 5 (December 2005), pp. 1441-1464.
• Jeremy Adelman, “What is global history now?”, Aeon, 2 March 2017: Is global history still possible, or has it had its moment? | Aeon Essays

25.1 Sketch your global history project