Eurocentrism and the Politics of Global History

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Eurocentrism and the Politics of Global History is written by Alessandro Stanziani and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319947400 (ISBN 10) and 9783319947402 (ISBN 13).

Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress. And yet it often suffers from the same Eurocentrism that plagues national history, accepting Western categories and values uncritically and largely ignoring non-English historiographies. Alessandro Stanziani examines these tensions and asks what global history is and ought to be. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, he historicizes global history writing from the sixteenth century onward, tracing the forces of revolution, globalization, totalitarianism, colonization, decolonization and the Cold War. By considering global history in the context of a longue durée, multipolar perspective, this book assesses the strengths and limits of the field, and clarifies what is at stake.