Global History
Current Debates

A Letter on the CROMOHS Debate on Global History

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  • Giovanni Levi
Giovanni Levi
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/cromohs-14611

Published 2023-07-17

Keywords

  • global history,
  • micro-history,
  • connected histories

Copyright (c) 2023 Giovanni Levi; Daniel Barbu

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Abstract

In order to tackle the ongoing Cromohs debate of global history, the author draws on anthropologist Frederik Barth's 'generative model' of the relationship between the general and the particular, art historian Siegfried Kracauer's reflections on history, Sanjay Subrahmanyam's connected histories, Nathan Wachtel's 'histoire régressive,' and his own foundational expertise on micro-history.

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