Ser exigentes con la "historia global" : escribir de otro modo la historia mundial

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the concept of “Global history” with regard to Fernand Braudel’s notion of “Total history”, a notion epistemically premised on wider and deeper space and time social realities in contrast and in correlation to “Comparative history” and the so-called “Universal history”. In addition, the author explores the influence of Total history in subsequent developments that will ultimately come to fabricate historical narratives from a global standpoint; these developments imply theoretical, methodological and epistemological challenges critically revised here, from a Latin-American angle, together with the analysis of its connections to Capitalism and Eurocentrism.