The current of “global history” as a historiographical ideology proposes that the construction of knowledge about the past should be carried out in the light of a global hermeneutic key, seeking to overcome the tendentially closed or self-referential circular logic of national histories. It is a question of situating the understanding of the themes and problems that are the subject of historiographical research and interpretation within the porous framework of global dynamics, which give greater complexity to the analysis of processes and results, and of taking into account the notion of networks, appropriation and metamorphosis.

Developing research projects from this wide angle, taking historical movements in the long term as a point of critical observation, combined with an analysis of their effects in the medium and short term in a given territory of expression, allows us to understand the objects of historical study in their various genres, with hybrid and composite originalities, in which the local receives from the global and the global is also enriched by the local. History, in essence, comes to be understood in a “glocal” way, in which territories and historical times are studied in their intrinsic connection to the world’s circulating “machine”. The work of global history is built on an epistemological basis that is intrinsically interdisciplinary, inter-epochal, inter-spatial and inter-relational. In the light of this idea, the fundamental purpose of this Research Group is to open up new avenues to explore a multitude of analyses that will make it possible to complexify critically constructed historical knowledge, involving researchers from the various scientific areas that comprise the CEG groups to develop “Global Histories” projects in the most diverse fields of knowledge construction, establishing an articulated relationship with the different research groups and contributing to the construction of their epistemological identity.