The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing, using twelve different branches of history.
The book is incredibly original, offering a practical guide to methodology of thinking history from a global context The book addresses the multiplicity of global interpretations in a helpful and imaginative fashion Olstein has included a typological and analytical bibliography - an important and innovative teaching and research tool
Diego Olstein
Historical thinking global thinking historiography globalization comparative history relational history entangled history connected histories shared histories international history transnational history oceanic history global history world history big history
“This is one of many volumes devoted to the search for a proper historiography fitting the human life that is now being lived globally and thus must be understood accordingly. … Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.” (A. Breisach, Choice, Vol. 53 (1), September, 2015)