Global History: A Comparative Approach

Global history has got itself tied up in knots, particularly over how to define globalisation. We've been talking so far about worlds as they connect together. But the other major strand of global and world history is comparative history. And you take places and times and periods that never connected in reality or even knew one another. So if those are our three ways of doing it and they emerged during the 20th century. If we want to offer a blazing new alternative to specialised history. I think semi-helpfully at best this subfield gets us anywhere.