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E-book The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c. 1550-1750

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For almost two decades, historians and academics from a wide- range of sub- disciplinary backgrounds have been situating their research within a global context, crossing boundaries both geographically and methodologically, in such large numbers as to necessitate the emergence of a recognisably new field of enquiry: Global History. From comparative to connective histories, the field is still regarded by many as protean, full of potential possibilities and oppor-tunities to provide a heritage to our own globalised and intensively connected world.1 However, after almost two decades, this vogue perspective has, in many respects, held the field back from presenting more formalised answers and solutions to the almost unending questions and problems historians continue to throw up as they globalise their research. As recently as 2016, the Scottish Centre for Global History’s conference on ‘Writing Global History’ asked far more questions than one might expect in a field maturing into its third decade. Whilst it is absolutely essential that Global Histories continue to problematise the processes of globalisation, as recently demanded by Sebastian Conrad in his survey of the field, nonetheless the contributions in this volume do seek to provide answers – rather than questions – to some of the key challenges which have been posed by the emergence of Global History.2 Many of these answer questions directly raised by the notion of the corporation as a protagonist in global history, of course.3 But each contribution also seeks to address issues which have emerged from the longer heritage of Global History as a method-ological field. It is therefore necessary to briefly map these before they can be addressed.Attempts to formally map the heritage of Global History have proliferated in recent years. Unlike, for example, New Imperial History, which has unfortu-nately seen very few major methodological survey volumes outside of those by Kathleen Wilson and Stephen Howe, there is now no shortage of historiograph-ical reviews of the major trends and constituencies of Global History over the past two decades.4 So much so, in fact, that as the truly protean and formative period of Global History continued to spin out into almost boundless direc-tions, the outcome of Oxford’s ‘New Directions in Global History’ conference in 2012 attempted to provide, almost perversely, boundaries, by breaking the field down into three methodologies of analysis: comparativeness, connectedness, and globalisation.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

909.5 PET t

Penerbit

USA : BRILL., 2018

Deskripsi Fisik

343 hlm

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English

ISBN/ISSN

9789004387850

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909.5

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text

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computer

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online resource

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World History 16th Century, 1500 - 1599

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