Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. What is a source? Archives, memory and contested contextualities
Revolutionary archives
Archives in the twentieth century: from communism to the decolonization
Part 2. The social life of data
When one person eats two chickens and another none, on average they eat one chicken each
Environment and social inequalities: how are data made and by whom?
Part 3. Fragments of social worlds
What is a worker, what is a slave?
What is a peasant? The global history of 'immobile people'
What is a consumer? Identities and alterities in the stomach
Part 4. The quest of universality: values, theories and the European model
Societies and their evolution: from the Enlightenments to Marxisms
Weberian worlds

This book seeks to overcome the tension between 'Western' and 'non-Western' categories and tools in the study of global history, showing how most Western approaches to the social sciences and history have developed through transnational and colonial interactions.
Offering a transnational and global history of the main tools we have to understand the word and its transformations over the last three centuries. Tensions of Social History explores the construction of archives and historical memory., the making of statistics and their use in politics, the identification of social actors, and the emergence of key social theories. Providing key insights into how to write history and develop social sciences in the global era while avoiding Eurocentrism and cultural exceptionalism, this ambitious book shows how global history is made of encounters rather than confrontations between civilizations.

College of Education Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Social Studies

In English