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My reading has taken some odd turns in recent weeks, stretching from disease to sovereignty and finally to a (now technically obsolete) document. This document banned the use of explosive projectiles under 400g for being both inhumane and providing no

After many hesitations and detours about my research topic, I have finally settled on a study of the diffusion of climate anxieties and the establishment of environmentalist practices in the French colonial empire at the end of the 18th century.

I am fairly confident I want to focus on global intellectual histories’ implications within the consolidation of ethnolinguistic nationalism in Slavic states and their effect on their respective nationhood origin histories. I am particularly looking at Soviet satellite states such

Antje Dietze and Katja Naumann talked about how historians must look at space and spatial perspectives through a transnational lens. They talk about how space itself is a socially constructed concept, explaining that “the predominance of the national space has

I was born exactly fifteen years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion happened in 1986, and so it is always something that has intrigued me. Why did it take several days for the USSR to announce the explosion? How did people

I still haven’t nailed down what I want to do my project on, let alone articulated a theoretical base or identified my key source material. I was of half a mind to continue the theme I began in last week’s

Looking at transnational history through individual actors allows categories, such as space, which have often been defined by existing areas of historical research and often based on the nation, to be defined by the subject. Through this one can study

A thought occurred to me, a striking and unsuspectingly creeping notion, about my subject. This idea had begun to hit the edges of my mind when, as a part of my research into Rapa Nui, I routinely looked at modern

One attraction of microhistory, as mentioned by Tonio Andrade is the way its narrative element is engaging for readers. This would certainly be useful for global history where one concern is the worry of finding a wide readership for works

The first thing that came to mind when doing this week’s readings was the idea of scale. When thinking about microhistory versus global history, they seemed to me like opposite ends of a scale – one put a magnifying glass

I struggled a bit to come up with a blog post for this week as I was torn between two very different fundamental ideas. On the one hand I wished to write and put more words down into pen about my

This week’s readings have triggered a lot of questions and reflexions, which I look forwards to discussing tomorrow. I have however decided to dedicate this post to my first thoughts on my project, which has taken a significant step forwards

Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen’s “From Transnationalism to Olympic Internationalism”  was my favorite text for this week not only because of its micro-historical approach but also because of my personal connections with the content. When I first read the abstract, and then read

I found the Andrade article ‘Toward a Global Microhistory’ particularly thought-provoking. His narratival and biographical approach to recounting the Dutch-Chinese conflict of 1661 in Taiwan made this article a very enjoyable and casual read. Andrade begins with introducing a major