Conceptualizing Global History

As we enter a truly global epoch we need a historical awareness to match the times. This book offers a new scholarly perspective, a new historical consciousness, and a new sub-field of history—global history—that will have a major impact on the way we write history and make policy in the future. The need for a new approach can be seen everywhere: in environmental problems that ignore national boundaries, in nuclear threats that have no territorial limitations; in the rapid increase in multi-national economic activity; and in advances in space exploration and communication satellites that link peoples to a degree hitherto unimagined. The contributors to this book offer both a theoretical treatment and a number of examples of what global history is and how it might be written.It is recognized that global history is not the only history that can or should be written, and that globalism is often matched by increased localism, thus requiring a keen sense of the dialectic involved. New actors need to be identified and studied on the historical stage, other than the nation state. Though global history is a form of contemporary history, starting from our present moment it must look backward, with the range depending on the problem. Thus, global history seeks to be methodologically sophisticated while pioneering a new way of thinking about history in the coming millenium. An Introduction To Global History / Bruce Mazlish -- The Rounding Of The Earth : Ecology And Global History / Neva R. Goodwin -- Global History : Historiographical Feasibility And Environmental Reality / Wolf Schafer -- Global History And The Third World / Ralph Buultjens -- From Universal History To Global History / Manfred Kossok -- Global History In A Postmodern Era? / Bruce Mazlish -- Migration And Its Enemies / Wang Gungwu -- A Globalizing Economy : Some Implications And Consequences / Richard J. Barnet And John Cavanagh -- Human Rights As Global Imperative / Louis Menand Iii -- The Globalization Of Music : Expanding Spheres Of Influence / John Joyce -- On The Prospect Of Global History / Raymond Grew. An Introduction To Global History / Bruce Mazlish -- The Rounding Of The Earth : Ecology And Global History / Neva R. Goodwin -- Global History : Historiographical Feasibility And Environmental Reality / Wolf Schafer -- Global History And The Third World / Ralph Buultjens -- From Universal History To Global History / Manfred Kossok - Global History In A Postmodernist Era? / Bruce Mazlish -- Migration And Its Enemies / Wang Gungwu -- A Globalizing Economy : Some Implications And Consequences / Richard J. Barnet And John Cavanagh -- Human Rights As Global Imperative / Louis Menand Iii -- The Globalization Of Music : Expanding Spheres Of Influence / John Joyce -- On The Prospect Of Global History / Raymond Grew. Edited By Bruce Mazlish And Ralph Buultjens. Includes Bibliographical References. Frontmatter An Introduction to Global History (Bruce Mazlish, page 1) PART ONE: The Theory of Global History 1 The Rounding of the Earth: Ecology and Global History (Neva R. Goodwin, page 27) 2 Global History: Historiographical Feasibility and Environmental Reality (Wolf Schäfer, page 47) 3 Global History and the Third World (Ralph Buultjens, page 71) 4 From Universal History to Global History (Manfred Kossok, page 93) 5 Global History in a Postmodernist Era? (Bruce Mazlish, page 113) PART TWO: Applied Global History 6 Migration and Its Enemies (Wang Gungwu, page 131) 7 A Globalizing Economy: Some Implications and Consequences (Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh, page 153) 8 Human Rights as Global Imperative (Louis Menand III, page 173) 9 The Globalization of Music: Expanding Spheres of Influence (John Joyce, page 205) PART THREE: An Overview 10 On the Prospect of Global History (Raymond Grew, page 227) About the Book (page 251) About the Editors and Contributors (page 253) The contributors to this book offer both theoretical treatments and a number of examples of what global history is and how it might be expressed. It establishes a new way of thinking about history in the coming millennium.