World History

Refugiados extranjeros en España: el campo de concentración de Miranda de Ebro

by Matilde Eiroa San Francisco

published in "Ayer", nº 57, 2005.

España en el marco de las crisis mundiales de 1956

by Matilde Eiroa San Francisco

published in "Historia Actual on-line", nº 10, 2006.

Hegel, Dünya Tarihi ve Özgürlük Mücadelesi Olarak Uluslararası İlişkiler

by Uluslararası İlişkiler

Faruk Yalvaç, "Hegel, Dünya Tarihi ve Özgürlük Mücadelesi Olarak Uluslararası İlişkiler", Uluslararası İlişkiler, Cilt 6, Sayı 21(Bahar), 2009

Bu yazı Hegel’in genel tarih felsefesi çerçevesinde uluslararası ilişkiler kuramını değerlendirmek amacını... more Bu yazı Hegel’in genel tarih felsefesi çerçevesinde uluslararası ilişkiler kuramını değerlendirmek amacını gütmektedir. Hegel, tarihi, insanların ve belli ulus ve kültürleri temsil eden devletlerin birbirlerini karşılıklı olarak tanımaları için verdikleri bir özgürlük mücadelesi olarak tanımlamıştır. Hegel’in uluslararası ilişkiler kuramı da onun özgürlük mücadelesi olarak gördüğü tarih felsefesinin içine yerleştirilmelidir. Hegel’de devletlerin birbirini tanıması esası üzerine kurulmuş ve devletlerin hem bağımsız ve özgür kaldıkları, hem de bir arada yaşamalarını mümkün kılan bir uluslararası ilişkiler kuramı vardır. Bu nedenle çağdaş toplumların özgürlük mücadelelerini modern ulus devletin sınırları içerisinde tamamlayıp tarihin sona erdiğini ileri sürmek yanlış olur. Ancak Hegel’in felsefesi uyarınca devletlerarası ilişkilerdeki özgürlük mücadelesinin gelecekte ne şekil alacağını bilmek olası değildir zira “bir felsefenin çağdaş dünyayı aşabileceğini hayal etmek, bir kimsenin Rodos’u sıçrayıp aşabileceğini sanmak kadar saçmadır”.

The Middle Ground Journal Call for Reviewers 1.0

by Hong-Ming Liang 梁弘明教授

Africa and the Atlantic World 1450-1850 programme

by Richard Blakemore

Einleitende Überlegungen: Wissen um Veränderung-Entwicklung, Geschichte, sozialer Wandel

by Patrick Neveling

Review: Many Peoples, Many Faiths: Women and Men in the World’s Religions, 9th ed. (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009), by Robert S. Ellwood and Barbara McGraw.

by Richard Greydanus

Book review. ARC 38 (2010): 189-191.

The English Experience of Judicial Violence in Asia: three case studies, 1600-1625

by Edmond Smith

University of Cambridge, Violent Culture/Cultural Violence conference, 9th June 2012

Another America: Russian mental discoveries of the North-west Pacific region in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

by Martina Winkler

Journal of Global History March 2012 7 : pp 27-51

This article explores Russian perceptions of ‘America’ as they emerged in the eighteenth century when traders,... more This article explores Russian perceptions of ‘America’ as they emerged in the eighteenth century when traders, explorers, and scholars approached the North American continent from the Pacific side. It argues that these perceptions were fundamentally different from the European mental discovery of America via the Atlantic. Rather than imagining a ‘new world’, the protagonists saw the north-west American coastline as a part of the North Pacific basin, which, in turn, was considered a part of the Russian empire. Only in the early nineteenth century did Russian geographic and cultural concepts change, becoming more similar to those of Europeans and to contemporary ideas of continents and global structures.

'Africa and the Atlantic World, 1450-1850' programme

by Edmond Smith

22nd-23rd June 2012, Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge

Bringing speakers from four continents to Cambridge, including keynote speakers Prof Alison Games (Georgetown) and... more Bringing speakers from four continents to Cambridge, including keynote speakers Prof Alison Games (Georgetown) and Prof Vincent Brown (Harvard), this conference will explore the role of Africa in the Atlantic World during the early modern period.

To register please follow the link attached, and for further information email africaatlanticconference@gmail.com

De-personifying Continents: Descriptions of Continental Diversity in Seventeenth Century Europe

by Edmond Smith

Leiden University, Imagining Europe conference, 27th-28th January 2011

The Turbaned and the Hatted: Figures of Alterity in Early Modern Thai Visual Culture

by Maurizio Peleggi

Chap 2 of "Images of Otherness in Medieval and Early Modern Times: Exclusion, Inclusion and Assimilation", ed. Anja Eisenbeib and Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch (Berlin and Munich: Dutscher Kunstverlag, 2012), pp. 57-69. UNCORRECTED PROOFS

What Kind of System Is It? The DynCoopNet Project as a Tribute to Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005)

by J. B. (Jack) Owens

In Networks in the First Global Age, 1400-1800, edited by Rila Mukherjee. Indian Council of Historical Research in association with Primus Books, Delhi, 2011.

In this chapter, I connect some of the central concerns of the final stages of Andre Gunder Frank’s research with a... more In this chapter, I connect some of the central concerns of the final stages of Andre Gunder Frank’s research with a multinational, multidisciplinary project that I created after Frank’s death. The project has a long title, ‘Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age’, and is usually referred to by its acronym, DynCoopNet.  Without the continuous, vigorous prompting of Frank, I would not have arrived at a point in my own work where I could have conceptualized and designed such a project, and I, therefore, offer this chapter as a tribute to my late friend Gunder.

Development of metallurgy in Eurasia

by Benjamin Roberts

Roberts, B.W., Thornton, C.P. and Pigott, V.C. 2009. Development of Metallurgy in Eurasia. Antiquity 83, 112-122.

The authors reconsider the origins of metallurgy in the Old World and offer us a new model in which metallurgy began... more The authors reconsider the origins of metallurgy in the Old World and offer us a new model in which metallurgy began in c. eleventh/ninth millennium BC in Southwest Asia due to a desire to adorn the human body in life and death using colourful ores and naturally-occurring metals. In the early sixth millennium BC the techniques of smelting were developed to produce lead, copper, copper alloys and eventually silver. The authors come down firmly on the side of single invention, seeing the subsequent cultural transmission of the technology as led by groups of metalworkers following in the wake of exotic objects in metal.

Rise of the Gunpowder Empires

by Carl L Bankston

“Ancient Mesopotamia” chapter including entries on Ur, Tell Asmar, Babylon, Khorsabad, and Development of Writing

by Ömür Harmansah

Archaeologica: The World’s Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures. Aedeen Cremin (ed.). London: Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2007: 214-223.

Historical Sociology, Modernity, and Postcolonial Critique

by Gurminder K Bhambra

Standard historical-sociological accounts of modernity are predicated on notions of rupture and difference: a temporal... more Standard historical-sociological accounts of modernity are predicated on notions of rupture and difference: a temporal rupture between an agrarian, pre-modern past and an industrial, modern present, and a cultural difference between the ‘West’ and the ‘Rest’. While sociology’s long-standing linear accounts of modernization, based on notions of societal convergence, have been tempered by a recent emphasis on ‘multiple modernities’, the wider postcolonial critique has not been sufficiently answered. One of the most significant charges of this critique has been that the universality ascribed to sociological concepts such as modernity has been based on a parochial reading of the histories of Europe and the US as internally homogenous and qualitatively distinct from histories elsewhere. In other words, the world historical character of such concepts rests on a partial understanding of what happened in the West with little consideration of events in other places – more specifically, of the necessarily global conditions of these events. In this article, I assess the contributions of four developments in sociology and history which seek to take into account the world beyond the West in our understandings of modernity: namely, third wave cultural historical sociology, multiple modernities, micro-histories and global history. These different endeavours provide promising avenues of redress to earlier Eurocentred narratives, but to be effective they must not only provide us with ‘new data’ but also participate in the dialogue of how these new considerations may prompt us to think differently about the concepts in question.

Africa and the Atlantic World, 1450-1850

by Joshua Newton

22-23 June, University of Cambridge.
See the full Call for Papers here: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/event/3346

See the full Call for Papers here: See the full Call for Papers here: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/event/3346

Updated Call for Papers 'Africa and the Atlantic World, 1450-1850'

by Edmond Smith

The deadline for this CFP has now passed. Registration to attend this event will be open until May 2012.

Balancing Written History with Oral Tradition: The Legacy of the Songhoy (Review)

by Helena Cantone