Ancient history and global history: Influences and confluences

Abstract

This paper seeks to map the ways in which Ancient History and Global History converge in contemporary historiography. Taking as central categories the morphological eurocentrism and methodological internalism, the paper discusses the emergence of alternatives in the Ancient History to the general crisis of the Eurocentric historical macronarratives in the late twentieth century, especially the comparative and Mediterranist approaches, whose construction was paralleled by the formation of the Global History field. Then, the paper discusses five ways of convergence between the two fields: macrocomparisons, connected histories, systemic theories, ancient globalizations approaches and West Afro-Eurasian framing.