SEBASTIAN CONRAD's scientific contributions

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Book
Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as...

Citations

... What unites them is a concept of the global and the local as equally important poles, forming hybrid realities, not immune from larger or even global developments, but neither rushed away in an allencompassing current. In the end, we decided to keep "glocal" because much of the theoretical frame of global history equates the scale of the phenomenon with the scale of analysis (Conrad 2017). The glocal-a manifestation of the global in a particular setting-serves as an immediate reminder that such equations lead to dangerous waters by creating linear tales of historical progress. ...