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The challenges faced by world historians
have grown in keeping with the rapid change in world culture
that evermore plays out visibly in day to day events. This issue of World History Connected addresses how traditional research and teaching
are advancing to keep up, while not losing sight of long-standing fundamental
processes and values of historical thinking. Thus, its Forum is devoted to the
present effort to adjust (“tuning”) the introductory course in history to
better serve history education and help preserve the field of historical
inquiry itself. Articles address our
expanding view of de-colonization and de-centering the place of globalization
in space and time so as to remind us that globalization studies should acknowledge
what too often seems to be new hierarchies and exclusions arising from the
methodologies that are, in fact, “continuous with older forms of inequality.” This issue also introduces the first of
what may become an occasional series of new long form contributions. Thomas Mounkhall, a longtime contributor
to this journal and investigator of all things Oaxacan,
has produced a book on using that city and its environs deliberately
after the manner of Donald R. Wright’s The
World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, The Gambia (2004). He has graciously offered this
study to World History Connected with a view to reach the largest
number of readers, which, incidentally, now average 750,000 people who view
more than one article annually. Peer reviewers have been very generous in their praise of this work, to
the delight of this editor, whose love for world history began as an
adolescent, deepened over the years, and has been recently rekindled by Thomas
Mounkhall's research.
In the near future, issues of World History Connected will explore new
approaches to the First World War in World History, address the significance of
Exhibitions in world history, and revisit the Mongol Empire in new and
different ways. World History Connected welcomes the submission of articles and reviews on these and any other subject
that can advance research and teaching in the still evolving field of world
history.
Marc Jason Gilbert, Editor
Hawai'i Pacific University
Marc Jason Gilbert is Professor of History and National Endowment for the Humanities Endowed Chair in World History at Hawai'i Pacific University. He can be reached at mgilbert@hpu.edu. |
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