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WiSe 20/21: Approaching (Global) History as a Discipline

Frederik Schröer

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Global history takes the connectedness of the world as its point of departure and therefore thrives on the diversity of disciplinary backgrounds of its practitioners. As a historically contingent academic field, global history is premised upon developments and critiques that arose when the discipline of history realized the challenges of global integration. This evolved as a long and complex process, which makes finding your way into global history especially difficult for students who have not completed previous degrees in history. Therefore, this course is designed for those who feel they are new and maybe slightly uneasy with the “who is who” and “what is what” of history. Structured along a rough chronology, we will explore the history of history, from the likes of Ranke and Braudel to the cultural, linguistic and other important “turns” that reshaped the discipline and are the fundamental prehistory of global history. Along with this exploration of some of the main intellectual currents of history’s history, the course will familiarize students with the practice of history and its heuristic methods. Schließen