Writing the Globe from the Edges: Approaches to the Making of Global History in Australia
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2018
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Hughes-Warrington, Marnie
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Bloomsbury
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Global history research has burgeoned in the last decade, as seen in the emergence of
journals (i.e., Comparativ, 1990– and Journal of Global History, 2006–), publications
lists, professional organizations, electronic discussion forums and historiographical
collections such as Hopkin’s Global History and Grantner’s Globalgeschichte und
Globalisierung. There has also been a dramatic shift toward the provision of postgraduate
global history programs in schools and universities across the United States, Australia
and parts of Europe.1 At the same time, however, it is a reasonably common assumption
that Australian historians have done little to shape the historiography of global history
or to develop a distinctive approach to the analysis of world events. This assumption
appears well founded, for an Internet or database search for publications on global
history by Australian academics delivers few returns. But rather than simply concluding
that Australians have little to offer to a global conversation on global history, it will
be argued that a wider historiographical terminology and view is needed to see past,
contemporary and potential Australian contributions to the field.
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Global History, Globally: Research and Practice around the World
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