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Thinking History Globally: Varieties of Connections

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Criticism of comparative histories led historians such as Bénédicte Zimmerman and Michael Werner, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Serge Gruzinski, and Huri İslamoğlu-İnan and Peter C. Perdue to formulate the alternatives to histoire croisée (entangled history), connected history, and shared histories, respectively. None of these relational approaches became widely established and institutionalized in the ways that the other cross-boundary branches are with their professional associations, periodic conferences, and journals.

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Olstein, D. (2015). Thinking History Globally: Varieties of Connections. In: Thinking History Globally. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318145_6

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