Global History as a Quest for Ukrainian Historians
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2021.05.143Keywords:
global history, transnational history, histoire croisée, entangled history, social theology, Ukrainian history, cultural transfer, general crisis of the 17th century, imperial meridian, backwardness, long 20th century, global ageAbstract
The aim of the essay. The paper is devoted to analyzing global history as a new model of scientific knowledge and outlining the prospects for writing a modern Ukrainian metanarrative within its framework.
The methodology includes the principles and methods of conceptual history used for defining terms and concepts connected to global history. The author outlines the range of theoretical and empirical tasks for a Ukrainian historian aiming to write the new generation national metanarrative.
The scientific novelty. Global history is examined as a concept and as a historical ideology of the modern globalized world. The author also analyzes some types of global history (transnational, histoire croisée, social theology). Histoire croisée, focused on networks, migrations, interaction processes, connections between social groups, peoples, countries, cultures, is considered an intellectual frame for writing a national narrative. The author suggests studying the Ukrainian history from the perspectives of Christian globalization; the second wave of early modern globalization (16th – 17th centuries); the “Ukrainian 19th century”, examined with the interpretation of the imperial meridian concept as an alternative to the new imperial history; the “long 20th century” (from 1870s to 2010); the global age (high modernity period, or the period of rapid globalization).
Conclusions. Solving outlined tasks might look like a challenging quest for Ukrainian historians. Still, it is also a path to developing and popularizing global history concepts in modern research and educational practices.
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