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 Knowledge of Global History and the methods of interpreting it

The lecture gives an overview of global interdependencies and interactions in history based on selected topics from ancient cultures to the present.

According to the intention of global history, the whole world is included. Eurocentric perspectives are scrutinized and regions outside of Europe are included with their actors as action areas and actors.

Classification models and theories of global history will be dealt with in the course of the lecture and their narratives (narratives) will be examined in terms of scientific controversy and discourse.

The lecture covers the following parts:

1. The history of world and global history: older traditions and new accents, historiographical overview
2. Based on topics of global history such as "work", "education" and "school", "household and family" "," Trade "," Diseases / Epidemics / Pandemics "," Migration "," Resources "," Raw Materials "," Environment "and" Economies "introduce the limits of Eurocentric perspectives and the potential of global historical approaches (intercultural comparison, simultaneity and Interaction, inequality, changes in longue durée).
3. Showing historical cross-sections from the 13th century to the present. Developments in various world-regional venues are included and similarities, differences, mutual influences and dependencies are shown.
4. Questioning language and terms as a key to intercultural comparison and as a means of recognizing and questioning Eurocentric ways of speaking and evaluative attributions.

Lecture, text readings and discussions in class

Written exam at the end of semestre

Grandner, Margarete, Komlosy, Andrea (Hg.), Vom Weltgeist beseelt. Globalgeschichte 1700 - 1815 (Edition Weltregionen), Wien: Promedia 2004.

Osterhammel, Jürgen (Hg.), Weltgeschichte (Basistexte Geschichte 4), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner-Verlag 2008.

Sieder Reinhard, Langthaler Ernst (Hg.), Globalgeschichte 1800 - 2010, Wien-Köln-Weimar: Böhlau Verlag 2010.

Further literature will be announced in the lecture or placed in the semester set.

This course is also considered Extra-European History I or II for students of the curriculum BA History (2009). In this case, a reduced workload applies.