History Below the Global

<p><i>History Below the Global</i> aims to foster an entangled knowledge of global history and to place others at the centre stage to better understand the fluid world which we inhabit.</p><p>Relying on primary sources in seven languages and books written by hundreds of African Asian Middle Eastern and South American scholars Lorenzo Kamel examines the coloniality of power in historical research and sheds light on the largely neglected roles of the others and their modernities in history. The book provides three elements combined. Firstly a thorough analysis of the process of accumulation (“knowledge piece by piece”) which underpins some of the major achievements in human history. Secondly a view on pre-colonial perspectives and the process through which the latter have been swallowed up by Eurocentric and solipsistic perceptions. Lastly a study of the roots and outcomes of colonialisms and their echoes in our present. These three elements are addressed by combining multiple methodologies and approaches in the awareness that the history analysed as well as the historiographical trajectories that underlie it are ultimately inter-penetrable as well as themselves the result of a process of accumulation. <em>History Below the Global</em> challenges the view that first and foremost the “West” for bad and for good is and was the centre: the proactive actor which did and undid.</p><p>This volume will be of value to all those interested in global history the history of colonialism post-colonial studies modern and contemporary history.</p>