Paintings of battles from the early modern age have always offered detailed insights on the strategies and the type of weaponry used at that particular time in history. As historians, we should also ask ourselves what we do about peoples or areas that were or remain unconnected, local, and remote. In the case of empires, many of the exchanges across space and time have been ordered in a hierarchical fashion-metropoles profiting from peripheral spaces, for example -and imposed by certain groups of people on others, resulting in, for example, the enslavement or extermination of indigenous peoples. Yet reconstructing these webs of connections should not obscure global inequalities. The workshop participants agreed that global history focuses in particular on connections across large spaces or long timespans, or both. The central question was to what extent this fastchanging field required adjustments of “normal” historiographical methodologies and epistemologies. The workshop consisted of three discussion sessions, each with a different theme, namely the conceptualization(s), parameters, and possible future(s) of global history. On 4 June 2016, Jürgen Osterhammel of the University of Konstanz and Geoffrey Parker of Ohio State University gave an all-day workshop on global history for graduate students and junior and senior scholars of the Universities of Dundee and St.
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