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Galleons and Caravans: the main debates

Galleons and Caravans: the main debates. Overview lecture. Galleons and Caravans Week 2 Wednesday 13 October 2010. Global Connections. Today’s Lecture. A. What is Galleons and Caravans about? B. What are the key concepts and methods used in the course?

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Galleons and Caravans: the main debates

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  1. Galleons and Caravans: the main debates Overview lecture

  2. Galleons and Caravans Week 2 Wednesday 13 October 2010 Global Connections

  3. Today’s Lecture A. What is Galleons and Caravans about? B. What are the key concepts and methods used in the course? C. Historical Debates in Global/World History

  4. What makes this course different? • Team-taught course 2. Chronology: 1300-1800 3. Takes the wider world seriously

  5. Thematically organised: Theories of global history Travel Silk routes Silver Diasporas and migrations Global cities Global empires The European trade companies Global arts and material culture Environment and ecological exchange Religion Science and technology War, exploration and exploitation

  6. 1. What is Global History? www.warwick.ac.uk/go/globalhistory

  7. What is global history? • History of the entire globe?

  8. What is global history? • History of the entire globe? • History of globalisation?

  9. ‘Globalisation’ is often seen as a phenomenon that boomed in the 1990s through: • new systems of communication (the internet, email etc) • a high degree of economic interconnectedness • the power of large corporations • cultural homogenisation

  10. What is global history? • History of the entire globe? • History of globalisation? • History of interaction and connection in the early modern world

  11. Ways of doing global history: a. Connections: - to explain both economic and cultural phenomena. - connections are not always positive (exploitation, war, slavery, etc.). b. Comparisons: - especially used in the social sciences - based on indepth studies of specific localities - problem of what to compare

  12. Ways of doing global history: c. Holistic: - the whole world as one unit (in ‘big history’ the whole ‘Universe’, as in David Christian’s Maps of Time (2004) - use of science and biology d. Systemic: - analyzes how different areas (be they localities, states or empires) relate to each other.

  13. World and Global History Jounal of World History, since 1990, US-based Journal of Global History, since 2006, UK-based

  14. What is wrong with Global History? • Eurocentrism 2. Dominance of economic history

  15. Divergence David Landes Kenneth Pomeranz Post 1750 Coal and colonies • Environmental factors • Superior culture of Northern Europe

  16. World-systems theory Wallerstein Frank

  17. Silver and economic integration Flynn and Giraldez Richard von Glahn

  18. Scientific development Toby Huff Benjamin Elman

  19. Scientific development Toby Huff Benjamin Elman

  20. East India Companies Om Prakash Markus Vink ‘the new thalassology’ Annales school

  21. Industrial Revolution or Luxury

  22. Maxine Berg‘In Pursuit of Luxury: Global History and British Consumer Goods in the Eighteenth Century’ Past and Present (2004)

  23. Other topics for your consideration • Empires—global or not? • Diaspora communities and their role in creating connections • Maritime connections versus land-based connections • Spread of religions • Cities as nodes of global trade • Columbian exchange

  24. Global Connections • Multidisciplinary approach • Economic history as well as social and cultural history • Art and material culture • Literary materials (travel records, personal accounts) • The early modern world had multiple centres of gravity • Periodization: start in 1300

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