{"id":5257,"date":"2017-07-13T09:39:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T09:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2017-07-13T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T09:40:50","slug":"the-prospect-of-global-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=5257","title":{"rendered":"The Prospect of Global History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nakon knjige Sebastiana Conrada \u201cWhat is global history?\u201d (2016) upu\u0107ujemo i na zbornik \u201cThe Prospect of Global History\u201d (2016).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Prospect of Global History<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edited by James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, and Chris Wickham<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oxford University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Explores the relatively new and fast growing field of global history<br \/>\n&#8211; Contributions from some of the top scholars in their fields<br \/>\n&#8211; Highlights the geographical and chronological range of global history studies<br \/>\n&#8211; Shows how global history can be applied instead of advocated<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Prospect of Global History<\/em> takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth in historical analysis. <em>The Prospect of Global History<\/em> will speak to those interested in medieval and ancient history as well as modern history. Chapters range from historical sociology to economic history, from medieval to modern times, from European expansion to constitutional history, and from the United States across South Asia to China.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Part I<br \/>\n1: Introduction, James Belich, John Darwin, Chris Wickham<br \/>\n2: Global History and Historical Sociology, J\u00fcrgen Osterhammel<br \/>\n3: The Economist and Global History, Kevin O&#8217;Rourke<br \/>\nPart II<br \/>\n4: Unnecessary Dependences: Illustrating Circulation in Pre-Modern Large-Scale History, Nicholas Purcell<br \/>\n5: A Global Middle Ages?, Robert I. Moore<br \/>\n6: The Black Death and European Expansion, James Belich<br \/>\n7: The Qing Empire and Early Modern Global History, Matthew W. Mosca<br \/>\nPart III<br \/>\n8: Global History from an Islamic Angle, Francis Robinson<br \/>\n9: The Real American Empire, Anthony G. Hopkins<br \/>\n10: Writing Constitutions and Writing World History, Linda Colley<br \/>\n11: Afterword, John Darwin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sample Material<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-prospect-of-global-history-9780198732259?cc=hr&amp;lang=en&amp;\">https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-prospect-of-global-history-9780198732259?cc=hr&amp;lang=en&amp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edited by James Belich, Beit Professor of Commonwealth and Imperial History, University of Oxford, John Darwin, Professor of Global and Imperial History, University of Oxford, Margret Frenz, Lecturer in Global and Imperial History, University of Oxford, and Chris Wickham, Chichele Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Belich<\/strong> is Beit Professor of Commonwealth and Imperial History at Oxford University and a fellow of Balliol College. He previously taught in New Zealand, and has published several books on New Zealand history in global context. His latest book was Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783 -1939 (2009). He was director of the Oxford Centre for Global History from 2012 to 2014. His current research, on plague and expansionism in global history, was the subject of his GM Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University in late 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Darwin<\/strong> is Professor of Global and Imperial History at Oxford University. His recent books include After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire (2007); The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830-1970 (2009); and Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain (2012). He is currently working on the role of port cities in the globalization era of 1830-1930.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Margret Frenz<\/strong> has been Lecturer in Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford. Her previous publications include Community, Memory, and Migration in a Globalizing World: The Goan Experience, c. 1890-1980 (2014); From Contact to Conquest. Transition to British Rule in Malabar, 1790-1805 (2003) and (edited with Georg Berkemer) Sharing Sovereignty. The Little Kingdom in South Asia (2003; revised edition forthcoming 2015). She has also published articles in leading journals such as Past &amp; Present and Immigrants and Minorities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Wickham<\/strong> is Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford. He has written numerous books on Medieval Italy and, more widely, on Europe and the Mediterranean, up to 1250. He is a social historian, and also a comparative historian, committed to large-scale comparative work, as shown in his Framing the Early Middle Ages (2005). He has extended this comparative work widely, including to medieval China and the Islamic world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributors:<\/strong><br \/>\nJames Belich, University of Oxford<br \/>\nLinda Colley, Princeton University<br \/>\nJohn Darwin, University of Oxford<br \/>\nMargret Frenz, University of Oxford<br \/>\nAntony G. Hopkins, emeritus, Cambridge University<br \/>\nRobert I. Moore, emeritus, Newcastle University<br \/>\nMatthew W. Mosca, College of William &amp; Mary<br \/>\nKevin Hjortsh\u00f8j O&#8217;Rourke, University of Oxford<br \/>\nJ\u00fcrgen Osterhammel, University of Konstanz<br \/>\nNicholas Purcell, University of Oxford<br \/>\nFrancis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London<br \/>\nChris Wickham, University of Oxford<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviews and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The Prospect of Global History<\/em> has much to offer those in the field, and I have no doubt that Osterhammel&#8217;s chapter alone will be mandatory for all students of global history to read in years to come.&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Alexandra Leonzini, Global Histories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Prospect of Global History<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, and Chris Wickham<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This volume is the first of a new series from the Oxford Centre for Global History. It seeks to apply global history rather than merely preach it, and suggests a number of ways in which this can be done. East Asian and Islamic perspectives are here taken as seriously as European ones. The volume insists on depth in historical analysis, or longue dur\u00e9e, and speaks to those interested in medieval and ancient history quite as much as modern history. At the same time, it offers case studies from a wide geographical range. Chapters range from historical sociology to economic history, from ancient and medieval to modern times, from European expansion to constitutional history, from the United States across South Asia to China.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keywords: global history, historical sociology, economic history, Europe, East Asia, Islam, South Asia, longue dur\u00e9e<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordscholarship.com\/view\/10.1093\/acprof:oso\/9780198732259.001.0001\/acprof-9780198732259\">http:\/\/www.oxfordscholarship.com\/view\/10.1093\/acprof:oso\/9780198732259.001.0001\/acprof-9780198732259<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-prospect-Global.jpg?fit=365%2C550&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52520,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52520","url_meta":{"origin":5257,"position":0},"title":"Predstavljanje knjige &#8220;Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History&#8221; u Zagrebu","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"17. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Pozivamo vas na predstavljanje knjige \"Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History\", autora Mislava \u00a0\u017ditka i Marka Grde\u0161i\u0107a (Routledge, 2026). 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