
Tensions of Social History
Sources, Data, Actors and Models in Global Perspective
- 248 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Tensions of Social History
Sources, Data, Actors and Models in Global Perspective
About this book
This book seeks to overcome the tension between 'western' and 'non-western' categories and tools in the study of global history, showing how most western approaches to the social sciences and history have developed through transnational and colonial interactions. Offering a transnational and global history of the main tools we have to understand the word and its transformations over the last three centuries, Tensions of Social History explores the construction of archives and historical memory, the making of statistics and their use in politics, the identification of social actors, and the emergence of key social theories. Providing key insights into how to write history and develop social sciences in the global era while avoiding eurocentrism and cultural exceptionalism, this ambitious book shows how global history is made of encounters rather than confrontations between civilizations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 What is a source? Archives, memory and contested contextualities
- Part 2 The social life of data
- Part 3 Fragments of social worlds
- Part 4 The quest of universality: values, theories and the European model
- General conclusion
- References
- Index
- Imprint