Historiographic “umbrella”

an analysis of the book “Global history, transnational history and the history of empires”, by Bartolomé Yun Casalilla

Abstract

This review addresses the book by Professor of Modern History, Bartolomé Yun Casalilla, on global, transnational and empires history. The work was written from the results of research carried out over 10 years and developed, above all, at the European Institute of Florence, in a line of investigation on the European cross-border aristocracies of the 16th and 17th century, as the author presents in the introduction to the book. When dealing with this set of essays that were not previously published in Spanish, keeping a look at historicity and methodology, we intend to present Casalilla's main ideas alongside historiographical reflections on approaches to global and transnational history. Our aim is to demonstrate how these methodological perspectives are sometimes used as a kind of “umbrella”, in which the lack of methodical refinement and conceptual precision is noted, in order to define both the potential and the existing limits. in your application.