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275:- that study the past on larger scales of space and time. In Thinking History Globally, Olstein outlines the research methods, agendas, and professional networks of twelve distinctive historical branches that frame their analysis of the past beyond closed boundaries: comparative, relational, international, transnational, oceanic, global, world, and big histories,
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for referring to the period 500-1500 CE) was made of a multiplicity of tiny local worlds, in which, nevertheless, regional and even hemispheric forces such as conquest, trade, and religious conversion had had defining impacts on local societies. In other publications on world history, Olstein moved
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Olstein, D. (2010) “Judíos y mozárabes en Toledo castellana (1085-1315): vidas paralelas, vidas conjuntas, destinos divergentes.” In Assis, Yom Tov et al. (Eds.), Encuentros culturales entre judíos, paganos, cristianos y musulmanes. De la
Antiguedad a la Edad Media, Ediciones Lilmod International
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Olstein, D. (2006) “Comparative
History and World History: Contrasts and Contacts.” In Shagrir, Iris, Ellenblum, Ronnie, and Riley-Smith, Jonathan (Eds.), In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, pp. 297-306, Ashgate.
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Olstein, D. (2015) “Proto-globalization and Proto-glocalizations in the Middle
Millennium.” In Kedar, Benjamin and Wiesner-Hanks, Merry (Eds.), Cambridge World History. Volume 5: Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conquest, 500-1500 CE. Cambridge University Press, pp.
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Olstein, D. (2019) “Brevísima
Historia de la Globalización Más Larga.” In: Araújo, Erick Assis de; Santos Jr., João Júlio Gomes dos (eds.). História Urbana e Global: novas tendências e abordagens. Fortaleza: Editora da UECE, 2019, 32 pp. 110-134.
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Olstein, D. (2000) “A Minority under Two
Opposing Majorities: The Morazabs of Medieval Spain.” In Volkov, Shulamit (Ed.), Being Different: Minorities, Aliens and Outsiders in History, pp. 79-92. Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem.
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minority, Olstein paid attention to the history of historical writing on these topics contextualizing them in the changing socio-economic, intellectual, ideological, and political conditions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in
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since ca. 1500; and the “American divergence” that divided the fortunes of the New World societies from ca. 1500 onwards. Similarly, he periodized the history of globalization into six distinctive phases: Three waves of “hemispherization” in
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Olstein, D. (2019) “Brevísima
Historia de la Globalización Más Larga.” In: Araújo, Erick Assis de; Santos Jr., João Júlio Gomes dos (eds.). História Urbana e Global: novas tendências e abordagens. Fortaleza: Editora da UECE, 2019, pp.
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Olstein, D. (2011) “The
Mozarabs of Toledo (12th-13th Centuries) in Historiography, Sources, and History.” In Herbers, Klaus and Maser, Mattias (Eds.), Reihe Geschichte und Kultur der iberischen Welt. Berlin: Lit Verlang, pp. 151-186.
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Olstein, D. (2012) “711 en las fuentes y la historiografía: un ejercicio de combinatorica.” In Neyra, Andrea and Rodríguez, Gerardo (Eds.), ¿Qué implica ser medievalista? Vol. III. Universidad
Nacional de Mar del Plata, pp. 35 -51.
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Olstein, D. (2019) “Knowledge
Diffusion: The Global and the Local.” International ConferenceGlobal Transfer of Knowledge and the Change of Local Society: Western Knowledge and East Asia. Kyungpook National University, Korea, 2019.
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approach, and civilizational analysis. Beyond their singularities, the book arranges these twelve branches under the four big C’s for thinking history globally: comparisons, connections, conceptualizations, and contextualizations.
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in the Middle
Millennium.” In Kedar, Benjamin and Wiesner-Hanks, Merry (Eds.), Cambridge World History. Volume 5: Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conquest, 500-1500 CE. Cambridge University Press, pp. 665-684.
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Spanish history concentrates on the processes of conquest and settlement, cultural diffusion, acculturation, and assimilation that unfolded during the twelve and thirteenth centuries in the city of
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Olstein, D. (2007) "Monographic and Macro History: Confronting Paradigms." In Manning, Patrick (Ed.), Global Practice in World History, pp. 23-37, Markus Wiener Publishers: Princeton, New Jersey.
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Olstein, D. (2009) “La nueva historia mundial en sus variedades.” In Barros, Carlos (Ed.), Historia a Debate. Vol. III. Historia a Debate Editorial: Santiago de Compostela, pp. 131-144.
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Olstein, D. (2018) “Eight World Historians.” In Weller, Charles (Ed.), 21st-Century Narratives of World History: World Historians in Global Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 339-346.
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Olstein, D. La era mozárabe: los mozárabes de Toledo (siglos XII y XIII) en la historiografía, las fuentes y la historia. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2006, pp. 13-14.
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and its rural area in the wake of the Castilian conquest (1085). He focused on the patterns of interaction between the two largest groups in both city and hinterland: the
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Olstein, D. (2009) “Comparative History: The Pivot of Historiography.” In Kedar, Benjamin (Ed.), New Ventures in Comparative History, pp. 37-52. Magnes Press, Jerusalem.
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Olstein, D. and Hübner, S. (Eds.) Preaching the Civilizing Mission and Modern Cultural Encounters. Special Issue of the Journal of World History. Volume 27:3, 2016.
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Olstein, D. La era mozárabe: los mozárabes de Toledo (siglos XII y XIII) en la historiografía, las fuentes y la historia. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2006.
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Olstein, D. La era mozárabe: los mozárabes de Toledo (siglos XII y XIII) en la historiografía, las fuentes y la historia. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2006.
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Olstein’s last book A Brief History of Now presents a global history of the last two centuries analyzing the interplay between technological innovation, economic
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Olstein, D. “Un prólogo muy personal a la edición en castellano”. Pensar la Historia Globalmente. Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2019, pp. 11-15.
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Olstein, D. (2006) “The Arabic Origins of Romance Private Documents.” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 17:4, pp. 433-443.
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Olstein, D. (2017) “Latin America in Global History: An Historiographic Overview.” Estudos Historicos, 30:60, pp. 253-272.
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Olstein, D. (1999) “Historiografía Mozárabe en su Contexto: Restauración, Dictadura y Democracia.” Reflejos 8, pp. 91-104.
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