Global Perspectives on Global History
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Theories and Approaches in a Connected World
Dominic Sachsenmaier
overview
Dominic Sachsenmaier examines both the transnational dynamics and networks of global history through case studies on China, Germany and the United States. By extending these local and global connections and integrating approaches to the subject from across the world, he demonstrates how historians can enrich their conceptions of global history.
contents
Introduction: neglected diversities
1. Movements and patterns: environments of global history
2. A term and a trend: contours in the United States
3. On the margins of a troubled nation - approaches in Germany
4. Another world? Thinking globally about history in China
Epilogue: global history in a plural world
Bibliography
Index.