Abstract:The articles in this special issue were inspired by the work of Antony G. (A. G.) Hopkins and developed during two workshops sponsored by Western Sydney University and coordinated by Brett Bennett in 2013 and 2014. The published contributions all focus on a major methodological question in global history: How do historians create or employ generalizations-abstractions created by inducing from particular instances-in the writing of histories that are global in method or scale? There has been significant debat… Show more
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