The effects of global and transnational history today
The history of the world has become increasingly important over the past
few decades. History has become a necessity rather than something
optional, as without it we cannot fully grasp all of the different connections
the countries and nations make. There has been a change in the way
history has been approached by analysts though: nowadays historians are
more interested than ever before when it comes to global and
transnational history. This field emphasises the study of processes that
transcendent regions, nations, and even any single civilization.1 The
question remains: What are the effects of global and transnational history
on the world today?
Anne-Marie Thiesse wrote a book on national identities in the nineteenth
century Europe, in which she starts from a paradox: ‘nothing is more
international than the formation of national identities’2 (Thiesse 1999,
p.11). It means distancing oneself from the position of uniqueness that
every nationalism presupposes and, at the same time, thinking about the
