global history

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  11/10/2020
  

  The Prosperity Hoax

  A 2020 report on global poverty suggests that the problem is getting worse, directly attacking the methodologies the World Bank has used for decades to justify global capitalism as an anti-poverty program. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/16/2020
  

  Toward a Global History of White Supremacy

  by Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, and Jennifer Sutton

  We need to understand the history of global connections between white supremacists if we are to grasp what has sustained white nationalism despite global trends toward liberation and equality.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9/23/2020
  

  Are We Living at the "Hinge of History"?

  Journalist Richard Fisher examines the argument that the present--this moment--is the most important juncture in human history because human capacity to affect the planet outstrips human wisdom to direct that capacity.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/13/2020
  

  Black Lives Matter But Slavery Isn’t Our Only Narrative

  by Aretha Phiri and Michelle M. Wright

  "Black folks are astonishingly diverse in their cultures, histories, languages, religions, so no single definition of Blackness is going to fit everyone. When we fail to consider this, we effectively leave many Black people out of the conversation."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/10/2020
  

  A New Theory of Western Civilization (Review)

  "The WEIRDest People in the World" is the latest addition to the Big History category. The outstanding feature of the genre is that it wrangles all of human existence into a volume or two, starting with the first hominids to rise up on their hind legs and concluding with us, cyborg-ish occupants of a networked globe.

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• SOURCE: World Economic Forum
  5/29/2020
  

  Don't Assume There'll be a 'Post-COVID-19 Era' - Historian Niall Ferguson Tells World vs Virus

  "I don't think we should assume there'll be a post-COVID-19 era, any more than there's a post-influenza era, or a post-tuberculosis era, or a post-AIDS era," says historian Niall Ferguson.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  Historian William McNeill Warned in 1976 that a Mutated Flu Virus Could Cause a Pandemic

  by James Thornton Harris

  McNeil’s major achievement was to incorporate developments in microbiology, anthropology and archeology and synthesize them in a popular world history that identified disease as a primary shaper of world history.  

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/3/2020
  

  How Pandemics Change History

  In his new book, “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present,” Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale, examines the ways in which disease outbreaks have shaped politics, crushed revolutions, and entrenched racial and economic discrimination.

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  9-22-17
  

  Yale history department now emphasizing global history in undergraduate courses

  Department leaders say that the new undergraduate series is meant to reflect global history’s growing prominence.

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• SOURCE: Imperial & Global Forum
  11-26-13
  

  Diminishing Returns of the Global Turn

  by David A. Bell

  Global history has met the law of diminishing returns in its insights.

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• SOURCE: Imperial & Global Forum
  11-20-13
  

  In Defense of Global History

  by Marc-William Palen

  David Bell was too harsh on Emily Rosenberg's "A World Connecting: 1870-1945."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10-25-13
  

  This Is What Happens When Historians Overuse the Idea of the Network

  by David A. Bell

  Historians have been applying the network -- the controlling metaphor of the digital age -- to everything, even the distant past. Maybe that's not such a great idea.

• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed.
  5-20-13
  

  David Cannadine: Why Do Historians Insist on Dividing Us?

  Sir David Cannadine, a professor of history at Princeton University, has taught at the University of Cambridge and Columbia University. His most recent book, The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences, has just been published by Alfred A. Knopf.When Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1976, he concluded his acceptance speech with these wise, generous, and tolerant words: "There is no simple choice between the children of light and the children of darkness." But a quarter of a century later, Bellow's fellow American, President George W. Bush, took a very different view, insisting that there was, indeed, such a straightforward choice between good and evil. "When I was coming up," he opined, "it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them. Today we're not so sure who the they are, but we know they're still there." Here was a view of the world, of human association and of human nature, that assumes a polarized, Manichean division, built around collective identities that are internally coherent and homogeneous, and that are always latently or actually in conflict. The choice between them is, therefore, very simple and very clear.

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• Getting Beyond the "Clash of Civilizations"

  by David Cannadine

  The world, undivided. Image via Shutterstock.

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• In Memoriam: Gerda Lerner

  by Jennifer Scanlon

  Gerda Lerner in an 2012 interview. Credit: UW-Madison.Gerda Lerner, eminent scholar and pioneer in the field of women’s history, passed away on January 2, 2013, at age 92. There are so many ways and reasons to remember Gerda Lerner: her activism on behalf of women and women historians; her invaluable scholarship; her irascibility in the face of injustice; her demands on herself and on the profession; her inspiration and her gifts.