Introductory lecture Flashcards
In what ways has our world become more “global” since 1945?
Provide a few examples of how global integration has reshaped the physics of history in the sense that the experience of peoples is now more connected than in previous decades ?
To what extent is Canadian history ethnocentric ? How is national history looking at the past different than how a global historian would ?
How has the understanding of the world changed since the 19th century ?
How did Glenn’s 1962 orbital flight mark a defining moment in global history and our perception of the world ?
How does the geopolitical map we often use as a symbol for our world obscure the gap between rich and poor ?
In what ways were the 19th century world histories, despite being universal in ambition and planetary in scope, still Euro-Centric and even racist ?
What are some of the biases that shape the average Canadian’s worldview relative to the global majority that is poor, non-Western and non-white ?
In what ways is the teaching of Canadian history biased ? How does world history seek to subvert national myths ?
Why is history not perfectly objective ? How is the world history approach to the past shaped by the idea of perspective ?
How has mass abundance transformed human society since 1945 and reshaped human desires and expectations ?
Globalisation has accelerated since 1945, but how has it integrated the world unevenly ?
How does the scale of analysis put global events like WWII and globalization in a new light ?
How do global historians approach the past differently from national and international historians ?
