Global Histories beyond West-centric Perspectives 1500-SDN-SP-H-GHBWCP
Global history, developed in its broad analytical scales and distinct focus on connections and entanglements, has predominantly been a query into the origins of capitalism, modernity and global Western domination. The focus on objects, transactions, transfers, and forms of Western imperial domination served to reveal the reasons for what Kenneth Pommeranz dubbed “a great divergence”, as well as the formation of Western science, gender roles, and the environmental transformations (or rather catastrophes) we observe nowadays. Such conceived global history has always been challenged from different directions and even upturned (with Europe provincialized after Dipesh Chakrabarty), while alternative frameworks – whether analytical or geographic – motivated a conversation between specialists in various fields, thus making global history one of the most productive areas of historical inquiry.
This course will build upon the current richness of the new research in the field of global history, and it will take pleasure in departing from the mainstream. Topics such as the great divergence, capitalism, history of objects and products will be sidelined, whereas other questions – global revolutions, Asian globalizations, comparisons and entanglements between Europe and Asia are going to brought to the fore. Moreover, this seminar will examine global history through two geographical lenses – Eastern / Central Europe and East / Southeast Asia. More precisely, we shall look at how studying these geographical areas – often treated as somehow marginal – permits rethinking and rewriting the global narrative. We shall look at how these areas have been linked to one another either through a comparative analysis, or through new theorizations on the development of the early modern and modern world. The topics analyzed during the seminar are as follows: Steppe and Central Asian origins of modernity; East Asian capitalism (or its absence); comparative revolution and global communisms; imperial debacle, decolonization and entangled history of Central Europe and postcolonial world; memories of communism – memories of colonialism as political histories of oppression.
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Koordynatorzy przedmiotu
Efekty kształcenia
Wiedza (zna i rozumie)
WG_01 w stopniu umożliwiającym rewizję istniejących paradygmatów – światowy
dorobek, obejmujący podstawy teoretyczne oraz zagadnienia ogólne i wybrane
zagadnienia szczegółowe – właściwe dla dyscyplin humanistycznych
WG_02 główne tendencje rozwojowe dyscyplin humanistycznych, w których odbywa
się kształcenie
WK_01 fundamentalne dylematy współczesnej cywilizacji z perspektywy nauk
humanistycznych
Literatura
1. East Asian capitalism
Brook, Timothy. “Weber, Mencius, and the History of Chinese Capitalism.” Asian Perspective 19, no. 1 (1995): 79-97.
Faure, David. China and Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. (pp. 11-25)
Gipouloux, François. The Asian Mediterranean: Port Cities and Trading Networks in China, Japan and South Asia, 13th-21st Century. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011. (pp. 7-27)
Kung, James Kai-Sing. “The Economic Impact of the West: A Reappraisal.” The Cambridge Economic History of China, Volume II “1800 to the Present,” edited by Ma, Debin and Richard von Glahn, 354-413. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Edwards, Andrew David, Peter Hill, and Juan Neves-Sarriegui. “Capitalism In Global History”, Past & Present 249, Issue 1 (November 2020), e1–e32, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaa044
2. Steppe and Central Asian origins of modernity
Akhtar, Ali Humayun. 1368: China and the Making of the Modern World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. (pp. 1-13, 29-46)
Stanziani, Alessandro. Eurocentrism and the Politics of Global History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. (pp. 21-57)
Favereau, Marie. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. (pp. 1-25, 164-205)
Stanziani, Alessandro. After Oriental Despotism: Eurasian Growth in a Global Perspective. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. (pp. 91-106)
Poskett, James. Horizons: A Global History of Science. Viking, 2022. (pp. 46-93)
3. Comparative revolution and global communism
Smith, S. A. Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. (pp. 111-150).
Pons, Silvio. “General Introduction: The Communism and the Global History of the Twentieth Century.” In The Cambridge History of Communism, Volume I: World Revolution and Socialism in One Country, 1917-1941, edited by Pons, Silvio and Stephen A. Smith, 1-27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Graziosi, Andrea. “Communism, Nations and Nationalism.” In The Cambridge History of Communism, Volume I: World Revolution and Socialism in One Country, 1917-1941, edited by Pons, Silvio and Stephen A. Smith, 449-474. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Lanza, Fabio. “Making Sense of “China” during the Cold War: Global Maoism and Asian Studies.” In De-Centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change, edited by Pieper Mooney, Jadwiga E. and Fabio Lanza, 147-166. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.
4. Memories of communism – memories of colonialism as political histories of oppression
Lim Jie-Hyun. Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. (pp. 92-126)
Mark, James. The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. (pp. 61-92)
Lowe, David and Tony Joel. Remembering the Cold War: Global Contest and National Stories. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. (pp. 1-22, 163-208)
Citron, Suzanne. “L’impossible révision de l’histoire de France face au passé colonial.” In Historie globale de la France colonial, edited by Bancel, Nicolas, Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire et Dominic Thomas, 629-634. Paris: Philippe Rey, 2022. Or English editions.
Bancel, Nicolas and Pascal Blanchard. “Mémoires et patrimonialisation de l’histoire coloniale: l’introuvable musée colonial. In Historie globale de la France colonial, edited by Bancel, Nicolas, Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire et Dominic Thomas, 647-652. Paris: Philippe Rey, 2022. Or English editions.
5. Decolonization and entangled history of Central Europe and postcolonial world
Sidel, John T. Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. (pp. 72-95)
Burton, Eric, James Mark, and Steffi Marung. “Development.” In Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation, edited by Mark, James and Paul Betts, 75-114 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
Thomas, Martin and Andrew S. Thompson. “Rethinking Decolonization: A New Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century.” In The Oxford Handbook of The Ends of Empire, edited by Thomas, Martin and Andrew S. Thompson, 1-26. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
“A World of Contradictions: Globalization and Deglobalization in Interwar Europe” and Becker, Peter. “Passports as Instruments of Deglobalization.” American Historical Review 128, Issue 2 (2023) [part of the AHR History Lab section: “A World of Contradictions: Globalization and Deglobalization in Interwar Europe” edited by Tara Zahra and Peter Becker, 703-730]
6. Broader methodological issues: writing global history beyond Euro-centrism
Sachsenmaier, Dominic. Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Beckert, Sven and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Global History, Globally: Research and Practice around the World. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
Xin Fan. Global History in China. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2024.
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