1. Galleons and Caravans
Week 1
Global Connections

2. Today’s Lecture A. What is Galleons and Caravans about?
B. What are the key concepts and methods used in the course?
C. Historical Debates in Global/World History

3. José Escribano-Paez (seminars)
What makes this course different?
Team-taught course
Anne Gerritsen
José Escribano-Paez (seminars)
Maxine Berg
Guido van Meersbergen
Adrianna Catena
2. Chronology:
3. Takes the wider world seriously

5. Thematically organised:
Theories of global history
Travel
Silk routes
Silver  
Diasporas and migrations
Global cities
Global empires
The European trade companies
Global arts and material culture
Environment and ecological exchange
Religion
Science and technology
War, exploration and exploitation

6. 1. What is Global History?

7. What is global history?
History of the entire globe?

8. What is global history?
History of the entire globe?
History of globalisation?

9. ‘Globalisation’ is often seen as a phenomenon that boomed in the 1990s through:
new systems of communication (the internet, etc)
a high degree of economic interconnectedness
the power of large corporations
cultural homogenisation

10. What is global history?
History of the entire globe?
History of globalisation?
History of interaction and connection in the early modern world

11. Ways of doing global history:
a. Connections:
- to explain both economic and cultural phenomena.
- connections are not always positive (exploitation, war, slavery, etc.).
b. Comparisons:
- especially used in the social sciences
- based on indepth studies of specific localities
- problem of what to compare

12. Ways of doing global history:
c. Holistic:
- the whole world as one unit (in ‘big history’ the whole ‘Universe’, as in David Christian’s Maps of Time (2004)
- use of science and biology
d. Systemic:
- analyzes how different areas (be they localities, states or empires) relate to each other.

13. World and Global History
Jounal of World History, since 1990, US-based
Journal of Global History, since 2006, UK-based

14. What is wrong with Global History?
Eurocentrism
2. Dominance of economic history

15. Three key debates World-systems analysis (Immanuel Wallerstein)
The Modern World-System
vol. 1: Capitalist agriculture and the origins of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century (1974)
vol. 2: Mercantilism and the consolidation of the European world-economy, (1980)
vol. 3: The second era of great expansion of the capitalist world-economy, s (1989)

16. Three key debates Europe versus Asia Eric Jones and David Landes
European exceptionalism
Find the reasons why Europe shot ahead
Andre Gunder Frank
ReOrient the history of the world
Rise of Europe only a short-term reality.

17. Three key debates Divergence or Convergence
Agree that Europe moved ahead of Asia (creating divergence)
Differ on when this happened
(1500 or 1800)
Differ on why this happened
Coal
colonies