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The End of the Old Order: History, Nationalisms, and Totalitarianism

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During the interwar period, history in general and global history in particular expressed the failure of conceiving globality beyond nationalist frameworks. The Bolshevik Revolution altered the way we conceive of history (the construction of temporalities and the relation between past and future). In the West, while philosophy and universal history examined the decline of the West (Spengler) or its role in relation to other civilizations (Toynbee), the interactions between history and the social sciences were renewed in a different project, notably in France with the Annales. The rise of nationalism and nationalistic historiographies in China and India accompanied new trends in the totalitarian states where globality became a source of oppression (the global Aryan myth or the global revolution).

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  1. 1.

    Tooze (2014).

  2. 2.

    Berger et al. (2008).

  3. 3.

    Verdery and Banac (1995).

  4. 4.

    Smith (1986).

  5. 5.

    Spengler (1918–1922).

  6. 6.

    Herman (1997).

  7. 7.

    Not to be confused with his homonym, a nineteenth-century economic historian (1852–1883).

  8. 8.

    Toynbee (1934–1961).

  9. 9.

    On Toynbee: McNeill (1989), Montagu (1956).

  10. 10.

    Febvre (1920).

  11. 11.

    Berr (1919).

  12. 12.

    Febvre (1992: 22).

  13. 13.

    Bloch (1928).

  14. 14.

    Green (1990).

  15. 15.

    Espagne (1994).

  16. 16.

    Braudel (1949).

  17. 17.

    Middell and Naumann (2010).

  18. 18.

    Copsey and Olechnowicz (2010).

  19. 19.

    Moulton (2014).

  20. 20.

    Finlay (2012).

  21. 21.

    Lovett (1920).

  22. 22.

    Banerjii (1933), Chakrabarty (2015).

  23. 23.

    Philips (1961), Sena (1973).

  24. 24.

    Brown (2016).

  25. 25.

    Sarkar (1912–1952, 1932–1950).

  26. 26.

    Sardesai (1946–1957).

  27. 27.

    Guha (2005).

  28. 28.

    Chakrabarty (2004).

  29. 29.

    Winks (1966).

  30. 30.

    Manjapra (2014).

  31. 31.

    Brading (2011).

  32. 32.

    Zavala (1948).

  33. 33.

    Morales (2014).

  34. 34.

    Abreu (1907), Glénisson (1977).

  35. 35.

    Freyre (1933), Cardoso (2011).

  36. 36.

    Levene (1913).

  37. 37.

    Devoto (1993–1994).

  38. 38.

    Arguedas (1922), Arana (1884).

  39. 39.

    Zea (1979).

  40. 40.

    Estrada (1933).

  41. 41.

    Kung-chuan (1975).

  42. 42.

    Hao (1971).

  43. 43.

    Murthy (2011).

  44. 44.

    Schneider and Tanaka (2012).

  45. 45.

    Kohl (1998).

  46. 46.

    Schneider (1997).

  47. 47.

    Wang (2000).

  48. 48.

    Dirlik (1978).

  49. 49.

    Kovalevskii (2000).

  50. 50.

    Chicherin (1856).

  51. 51.

    Kaplan (2017).

  52. 52.

    Miliukov (1896–1903).

  53. 53.

    Kireeva (2004).

  54. 54.

    Barber (1981).

  55. 55.

    Shteppa (1962).

  56. 56.

    Platonov (1899).

  57. 57.

    Kliuchevskii (1871, 1904–1921).

  58. 58.

    Byrnes (1991).

  59. 59.

    Samoshenko (1989).

  60. 60.

    Alatortseva and Alekseeva (1971).

  61. 61.

    Salomoni (1995).

  62. 62.

    Pokrovskii (1928).

  63. 63.

    Pokrovskii (1928: 23).

  64. 64.

    Yilmaz (2015).

  65. 65.

    Venturi (2006).

  66. 66.

    Tikhomirov and Nikitin (1940), Andreev (1940).

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