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Global and Comparative History
Explore empire, trade, migration, revolution, cultural contact, and the global forces that connected societies across time.
History shaped by movement, exchange, and connection
Global and Comparative History examines how societies shaped one another through movement, exchange, conflict, ideas, trade, empire, technology, and revolution. It connects local events to wider global patterns and helps viewers compare how different regions experienced change.
This pathway helps viewers look beyond isolated national stories. It asks how goods moved, how people migrated, how empires expanded, how ideas travelled, and how societies influenced one another across distance and time.
GUIDED BY
Professor Marcus Langston
Global and Comparative History is guided by Professor Marcus Langston. Marcus brings an expansive, curious, and observant voice to the study of empire, trade, migration, revolution, cultural contact, colonial systems, technology, and global change.
Meet Professor Marcus LangstonKey themes in Global and Comparative History
Empire and expansion
How empires grew, governed, extracted, connected, and reshaped societies across regions.
Trade routes and exchange
How goods, ideas, beliefs, technologies, and influence moved across land and sea.
Migration and movement
How people moved by choice, pressure, labour, exile, conflict, opportunity, and survival.
Revolutions and global change
How political, social, economic, and technological change spread beyond one place.
Cultural contact
How societies encountered, misunderstood, adapted to, and influenced one another.
Colonial systems
How imperial rule, administration, resistance, extraction, and settlement shaped historical outcomes.
Technology and connection
How ships, roads, weapons, printing, communications, and transport altered the scale of history.
Comparing societies across time
How comparison reveals patterns, differences, and shared pressures across cultures and periods.
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