220006 After “Provincialization”: Global Approaches to European History (S) (WiSe 2023/2024)

Global approaches have become one of the currently predominant standards in historical research. Analytical multiperspectivity, authorial self-reflexivity, and—first and foremost—the postcolonial critique and the overcoming of Eurocentric and western universalisms currently belong to the indispensable prerequisites of cutting-edge historiography. But what role does Europe play in a global historical perspective? And how do scholars translate and apply global stances and conceptuality to European history?
 
This seminar tackles these questions and engages with the state-of-the-art of global approaches to European history beyond eurocentrism. After a preliminary introduction to pivotal contributions to postcolonial and global approaches, we will shift our scope towards the current debate on writing innovative European histories from a global perspective. Finally, a specific focus will be dedicated to the discussion of recent monographs in this field of research.

Bibliography

(see the course reserve book collection/Semesterapparat in the history section/FB 14 of the university library)
 
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
 
Conrad, Sebastian, What is Global History? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.
 
Middell, Matthias (ed.), The Practice of Global History. European Perspectives. London et al.: Bloomsbury, 2019.
 
Stråth, Bo / Wagner, Peter, European Modernity. A Global Approach. London et al.: Bloomsbury, 2017.