Online-Lecture: Prof. Edward Wang (Rowan University & Peking University): “Potato vs. Sweet Potato in Making the Modern World: A Discussion of Oceanic and Plant History in Historiography.”
Abstract: Both oceanic history and plant history are recent developments in historiography. This talk will discuss how the two schools enhance the study of global history and reshape our views about the making of the modern world. As a continual effort to critique the nation-state focus in 19th century historiography, which began with the French […]