Abstract
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Global Cultural History’ proposes a historiographic and conceptual framework for a ‘global turn’ in cultural history and for the articles gathered in the special issue. It discusses first the ‘archaeology of global cultural history’, i.e. the previous attempts to expand the scope of cultural history and to focus on connections and comparisons. Next, it proposes a conceptual mapping of global cultural history, concentrating especially on two conceptual triads: comparisons, connections and circulations, and scopes, scales and spaces. Third, the global challenge to the Eurocentric periodization of history is addressed, particularly the various attempts to ‘globalize’ these cultural movements and epochs which are traditionally considered genuinely European. Finally, the introduction argues for a cultural history of the globe, for considering ‘the global’ and ‘the globe’ not only as conceptual tools but also as historical objects.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,History,Cultural Studies
Cited by
2 articles.
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