1. Galleons and Caravans: the main debates
Overview lecture

2. Galleons and Caravans
Global Connections

3. 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

4. What makes this course different?
Team-taught course
2. Chronology:
3. Takes the wider world seriously

6. 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

7. 1. What is Global History?

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

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

10. ‘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

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

12. 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

13. 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.

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

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

16. Divergence David Landes Kenneth Pomeranz Environmental factors
Superior culture of Northern Europe
Post 1750
Coal and colonies

17. World-systems theory
Wallerstein
Frank

18. Silver and economic integration
Flynn and Giraldez
Richard von Glahn
the authors' thinking concerning the central role of China in the global silver trade, as well as interrelations among silver and non-silver markets. Research before 2002 paved the way for development of a coherent 'Birth of Globalization' narrative that portrays economic factors in the context of powerful epidemiological, ecological, demographic, and cultural forces.

19. Scientific development
Toby Huff
Benjamin Elman

22. Scientific development
Toby Huff
Benjamin Elman

23. East India Companies Om Prakash Markus Vink ‘the new thalassology’
Annales school
over a span of three centuries, the Indian economy expanded and was integrated into the pre-modern world economy as a result of these interactions with European traders

25. Industrial Revolution or Luxury
From industrialization and modes of manufacturing to seeing connections between luxury and manufacture

26. Maxine Berg ‘In Pursuit of Luxury: Global History and British Consumer Goods in the Eighteenth Century’ Past and Present (2004)

27. Other topics for your consideration
Empires—global or not?
Diaspora communities and their role in creating connections
Maritime connections versus land-based connections
Spread of religions
Cities as nodes of global trade
Columbian exchange

28. Global Connections Multidisciplinary approach
Economic history as well as social and cultural history
Art and material culture
Literary materials (travel records, personal accounts)
The early modern world had multiple centres of gravity
Periodization: start in 1300