Making sense of global history: the 19th international congress of the historical sciences, Oslo 2000, commemorative volume

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Global history is increasingly becoming our common concern. This book discusses the concept of global or universal history. The field is still in its infancy and the practitioners are relatively few. Formidable tasks await the global historian, and the present volume demonstrates both the challenges and the fruitfulness of the universal approach. History has served as a positive instrument in the hands of politicians and nationbuilders. But history can also be perverted and manipulated and serve...Vis mer