Comparative, Transnational and Global Histories: Rethinking Geographical and Temporal Scales
INSTRUCTORS
Instructor: Balázs Trencsényi
Teaching assistant: Una Blagojevic
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction into the practice of transnational and global history, helping to go beyond the Euro-centric understanding of human culture and society. It also offers a historical overview of the evolution of comparative and transnational historical gaze, from the classic texts of the interwar period up to the beginning of the 21st century. It analyses a number of nodal points such as transfers, colonialism, globalization, as well as global economic and political structures and institutions in the past and the present. It also engages with special research fields emerging recently, such as the one on “global socialism” and non-European debates on globalization.
LIST OF CLASSES
- Defining the comparative method: Classic texts
- Structures and institutions
- Beyond the national grand narratives
- Economic history
- Rethinking the comparative method
- Beyond the comparative method?
- Global history: agendas, spaces and frames
- Globalization as a historical problem
- Interdisciplinary negotiations: gender, economy, intellectuals
- Embedded global histories
- Global socialism
- Final discussion