Alessandro Stanziani (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France)
This book seeks to overcome the tension between ‘western’ and ‘non-western’ categories and tools in the study of global history, showing how most western approaches to the social sciences and history have developed through transnational and colonial interactions. Offering a transnational and global history of the main tools we have to understand the word and its transformations over the last three centuries, Tensions of Social History explores the construction of archives and historical memory, the making of statistics and their use in politics, the identification of social actors,...
This book seeks to overcome the tension between ‘western’ and ‘non-western’ categories and tools in the study of global history, showing how m...