Abstract
The three books under review offer the opportunity to consider attempts to write the history of the wider world from the Renaissance to the present day. Although they are vastly different in focus: from a selection of travel narratives and histories; volumes from a multi-authored reference work to the study of a single street; what they all have in common is their comparative methodology and their extended engagement with non- European cultures. The review endorses Christopher Bayly's contention that we are all global historians now, only some of us don't know it. To misquote Benedetto Croce: 'all history is contemporary (but also comparative) history'.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 559-580 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Journal of Early Modern History |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 25 Nov 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2016 |
Keywords
- globalisation; empire; material culture; world history
- Christopher Bayly
- world history
- Benedetto Croce
- Lisbon
- empire
- global history
- historiography
- material culture
- urban history