NATION, REGION, AND GLOBE ALTERNATIVE DEFINITIONS OF PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY
Journal Title: Journal of Globalization Studies - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
The paper begins in the recognition of the importance of ‘world history’ and considers some of the current challenges this field faces. It considers several important contributions to the field that illuminate the value of fresh ap-proaches: James Scott's construction of ‘Zomia’, Emmanuel Todd's historici-zation of ‘France’ as a nation, Bin Wong and Kenneth Pomeranz's new ap-proach to Eurasian economic history, and Victor Lieberman's analysis of the strange synchrony between Southeast Asia and Western Europe over a mil-lennium of political development. The essay concludes with several historio-graphical maxims: avoid eurocentrism, expect variation, look for mecha-nisms of inter-connection, avoid capture by ‘nation-state’ concepts, and pay attention to different schemes of historical time.
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Daniel Little
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