SEJARAH GLOBAL SEBAGAI PENDEKATAN BARU DALAM SEJARAH INDONESIA

Abstract

History science should not be separated from the
development of world philosophical thought. As a science, history is
still survived and used by many scholars until now. It proves that
history is still relevant to solve problems in our life. Since the
nineteenth century, history science is excessively influenced by the
Eurocentric view that it had been used to legitimate the power of
European imperialism and colonialism in many colonies, like
Netherlands Indies, British Malaya, India, and so forth. Many scholars
from social humanities fields, such as Syed Hussein Alatas and
Edward Said, have criticized the Eurocentric view in social
humanities scholarships. Lately, historians have been using a new
approach that emphasizes global history. Global history writings
discuss problems on a larger scale to reduce the Eurocentric view in
history science. It has been written and discussed by scholars in
Europe, North America, and East Asia for several times ago.
However, the global history approach has not been used yet as an
approach by academic or public historians in Indonesia. This article
explores global history as an approach to historical methodology. In
this article, the author uses historical literature that has been using
global history as an approach. The author argues that the global
history approach should be explored further to reduce the Eurocentric
view in historical writings.