Episode 1: Sebastian Conrad on Global Histories

History and Theory

Our first episode of the History and Theory Podcast concerns the approach of Global History. We talk to Sebastian Conrad about what the theory is, what it brings to history and wider society, and analyse two of his published academic articles. Some of the books and articles Sebastian Conrad mentions in the interview: "Enlightenment and Global History. A historiographical critique", American Historical Review 117 (2012), pp. 999-1027. "Nothing is the way it should be: Global Transformations in the time regime in the nineteenth century", Modern Intellectual History 15 (2018), pp. 823-848. Globalgeschichte. Eine Einführung, Munich 2013. While many assume that his latest "Global History. An Introduction" is merely a translation of the German original, Sebastian Conrad told us after the interview that this is not the case. In fact, the English publication focusses much more on the theories behind his conception of the global, in comparison to his other work. What is Global History?, Princeton 2017. For more information on History and Theory, head over to historyandtheoryproject.blogspot.com.