HIS Global history

Course content

For the last three decades, global history has held an important place in historical research. This innovative approach to history goes beyond national borders and cultivates something that the discipline of history does best, namely, identifying profound developments in both time and space. It transcends established chronologies and challenges our familiar geographical units. Global history compares cultures and societies and traces networks, entanglements, and migration across continents. It asks questions such as: Why did Europe experience the first industrial revolution in history? How have colonialism and imperialism formed the world of today? And, how have global epidemic diseases shaped societal development for millennia? The course introduces the main methodological approaches in global history and focuses on a number of the field's key issues, contributions and limitations. For the exam, student will characterize, compare and discuss key topics within the field of global history based on the syllabus readings and provided content.


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Education

Bacheloruddannelsen i historie, 2022-ordningen

Seminar / lectures / exercises

Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battuta

Janet Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350

CA Bayly, The Making of the Modern World, 1780-1914

Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2 vols (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995).

Amy Stanley, “Maidservants' Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History in Eurasia, 1600-1900,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 121, No. 2 (APRIL 2016)

Dennis Flynn and Arturo Giraldez, “Born with a "silver spoon': the origin of world trade in 1571,” January 1995, Journal of World History 6(2). 

Sebastian Conrad ““nothing is the way it should be”: global transformations of the time regime in the nineteenth century”, Modern Intellectual History, 15, 3 (2018), 821–848.

John Robert McNeill & William Hardy McNeill, The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History, (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003), pp 116-147, pp153-154.

Kenneth Pomeranz, “Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global Conjuncture,” The American Historical Review, Volume 107, Issue 2, April 2002, 425–446.

Margaret R. Hunt, “An English East India Company Ship's Crew in a Connected Seventeenth-Century World,” Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, Vol. 46, no 3, p. 333-344

Eliga H. Gould “Entangled Histories, Entangled Worlds: The English-Speaking Atlantic as a Spanish Periphery.” The American Historical Review 112, no. 3 (2007): 764–786.

Giorgio Riello, Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 1-14, 160-184, 296-298 & 334-340.

Jessica Hanser, “Teatime in the North Country: The Consumption of Chinese imports in North-East England,” Northern History, 2012.

Edward Said, “Introduction”, Orientalism, (London: Penguin Books, 1985) (orig. 1978), pp. 25-51.

Fatema Mernisi, Sheherezade Goes West, Different Cultures Different Harems, ch. 2, “Sex in the Western Harem,” pp.11-28

Niels Brimnes, “Fra enerådende diskurs til flertydig dialog: E.W. Said’s Orientalism og moderne kulturmødeteori,” Kontur, 8, 2004, 26-29.

Tim Brook, Vermeer’s Hat: The 17th Century and the Dawn of the Global World (London: Bloomsbury, 2008), Ch. 4.

Pernille Ipsen, “’The Christened Mulatresses’: Euro-African Families in a Slave-Trading Town,” The William and Mary Quarterly , Vol. 70, No. 2, Centering Families in Atlantic Histories  (April 2013), pp. 371-398

Richard White, The Middle Ground. Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region 1650-1815, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), xxv-xxxi & 50-93.

John-Paul A Ghobrial, “Introduction: Seeing the World like a Microhistorian, Past & Present, Volume 242, Issue Supplement_14, November 2019, Pages 1–22.

Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History, Introduction, pp. xvii – xxxii; Ch. 2 “Taken to Africa, Encountering Islam, pp. 41-86

Natalie Zemon Davis, Trickster Travels, A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds

Oral
Collective
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester
ECTS
15 ECTS
Type of assessment
Portfolio
Type of assessment details
Portfolio requirements, besides Forskningsområde: The Global history-element in the Portfolio consists of three assignments during the semester, two written and one recorded podcast adding up to a total of 8-10 pages. Students can receive feedback on the first written assignment (if submitted by the stipulated mid-semester deadline), after which the first assignment may be revised and resubmitted, along with the podcast and second written assignment, when the portfolio is due in June.
Aid
All aids allowed
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Intern prøve ved to eksaminatorer. I den samlede bedømmelse vægtes de dele af portfolien, der vedrører Globalhistorie, 60 % og de dele, der vedrører forskningsområdet, 40 %. De to dele af portfolien skal hver være vurderet til bestået niveau.
Criteria for exam assessment
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Lectures
  • 16
  • Class Instruction
  • 42
  • Preparation
  • 76
  • Exam Preparation
  • 62,5
  • English
  • 196,5

Kursusinformation

Language
English
Course number
HHIB07771U
ECTS
15 ECTS
Programme level
Bachelor
Duration

1 semester

Placement
Spring
Schedulegroup
See schedule link
Studyboard
Study Board of Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Contracting department
  • SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Contracting faculty
  • Faculty of Humanities
Course Coordinators
  • Jessica Hanser   (4-70796e67466e7b7334717b346a71)
  • Carsten Jahnke   (6-72697076736d48707d7536737d366c73)
Saved on the 26-05-2026

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