On history Becoming History: The Case of World and New Global History
Starting from the difference between history, in the sense of happenings, and History, as a conscious effort to reconstruct and understand past happenings, the attempt is made to look at two particular examples of how history becomes History: World History and New Global History. The development of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de Navarra
2001-11-01
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| Series: | Memoria y Civilización |
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| Online Access: | https://www.unav.edu/publicaciones/revistas/index.php/myc/article/view/33832 |
| Summary: | Starting from the difference between history, in the sense of happenings, and History, as a conscious effort to reconstruct and understand past happenings, the attempt is made to look at two particular examples of how history becomes History: World History and New Global History. The development of World History after the two World Wars is sketched, and a brief account given of the approaches used by William McNeill and his adherents and by world systems theorists. The differences between World History and a recent initiative, New Global History, are then accentuated, and a short account given as to the nature of the latter and its achievements, stressing, for example, its "outer space" perspective, the role of satellite communications, and the synergy and synchrony of its various elements. The process of globalization, which has provoked the rise of New Global History, it is then argued, is also changing the way in which we do "History". |
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| ISSN: | 1139-0107 2254-6367 |