The Construction of Global History and its Historiography

我们对“全球历史”这一新概念进行了理论思考，并借鉴世界体系框架和欧洲主要国家典型的全球历史著作对全球历史史学进行了考察。我们邀请了日本和外国不同学科的著名学者参加“全球历史研讨会”，共举办了20次研讨会，历时3年。1999年11月，我们在大阪举办了题为“回顾20世纪：霸权国家的作用与现代世界体系的变革”的全球历史国际研讨会，邀请了帕特里克·K·奥布莱恩教授、布鲁斯·卡明斯教授和哈特博士以及日本著名学者。2000年2月，我们邀请Givanni Arrighi教授举办了讲习班审查研讨会。我们在2000年3月以英文出版了《研讨会论文集》。1998年3月、1999年3月和2000年3月，我们派代表团前往伦敦大学历史研究所，听取对我们项目的审查，并与英国学者进行讨论。这一合资项目的结果将在即将于2000年5月在大阪举行的国际研讨会上报告。

We made a theoretical consideration about the new concept of "Global History" and examined historiography of Global History by using World-System framework and by referring typical books on Global History in major European countries. We invited famous Japanese and foreign scholars of different disciplines to our "Global History Seminar" to discuss on Global History, and we held twenty seminars for three years.We organized the International Workshop on Global History, entitled "Looking Back at the 20th Century : The Role of Hegemonic State and the Transformation of the Modern World-System" in November 1999 at Osaka, by inviting Prof. Patrick K.O'Brien, Prof.Bruce Cumings and Dr.Mt' Hart as well as prominent Japanese scholars. And in February 2000, we held the Review Seminar of the Workshop by inviting Prof.Givanni Arrighi. We published the Proceedings of the Workshop in English in March 2000.We sent delegations to the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, to receive reviews of our project and to discuss with British scholars in March of 1998, 1999 and 2000. The results of this joint venture project will be reported at the coming International Symposium in May 2000 at Osaka.