Keywords
Comparative History
Communication
Internationalism
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Abstract
In the last decades an important revision and fragmentation of the history of science canonical narratives –based in the emergence of modern science in the West and its progress towards the establishment of industrial civilization – has taken place. In this paper we intend to analyze some of the most recent historiographical debates from the standing point of our experience as historians of the European “periphery”. We will focus on three major questions: the –essentially Anglo-American– claims for the need of a new “big picture” able to connect with wide audiences and to avoid the centrifugal tendencies of specialization; the loss of internationalism in academic output and perspectives, and the current debates on the heyday and decline of the nation-state and its validity as a unit of analysis. As a result of this discussion we suggest a historiographical program based on the use of comparative history together with the analysis of communication processes at different levels – from the local to the transnational.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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