Peripheral Interventions in Global History: Toward a History of Argentina outside of Argentina

Abstract

While global history’s emphasis on networks and its de-emphasis on the nation has brought about a fruitful platform for exploring interregional connections, this article argues that a global history recentered in the periphery and willing to draw from its rich national historiographies has the potential to reveal new forms of globalization and connection. It takes Argentina as an exemplary case to consider the ways in which tracing one nation’s many transnational and global orientations might bring to light motivations, geographical dimensions, and fields of power previously unseen.

Keywords

• Latin America
• global history
• global periphery
• nation
• historiography
• América Latina
• historia global
• periferia global
• nación
• historiografía