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Content Inside: On global economic history A personal view on an agenda for future research Jan Luiten van Zanden International Institute for Social History This essay is an attempt to do different things at the same time therefore it is almost as chaotic as life itself. One of the most important reasons for writing it was to bring some order into the research I am doing it is an attempt to convince myself that behind the apparent chaos of projects and papers there is structure and meaning. It also an attempt to start thinking about global economic history as the conceptual framework for the research I am doing (I could not find anything bigger). This (perhaps unhappy) combination is clear from its structure: it starts as a real academic essay and later on becomes more personal outlining my personal research programme and concluding with some personal hobbies. Introduction In the past 20 years world history and global history have become familiar if not fashionable concepts. The Journal of World History which set the new trend more than a decade ago will soon witness the emergence of a competitor (the Journal of) Global History which is a sure sign of the growing impact and commercial vitality of the new wave. 1 This interest in global history is a complex phenomenon and the number of approaches is perhaps as large as the number of scholars working in the new field. Nevertheless it is possible to distinguish between a number of broad approaches. The largest group of world historians consists of specialists of certain non-western regions who study the interaction of their region with the rest of the world often focusing on the early modern period. Interaction in all spheres of life from trade and bullion flows to academic exchange or the spreading of microbes forms the prime interest of these historians (McNeill 1977; Abu-Lughod 1989). Their actual message is that all parts of the world were closely interconnected from a very early stage onwards and that we cannot ...

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