Ujamaa and Ubuntu: Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective - Hardcover

by Bo Stråth (Author)

The book argues that a new conceptualization of 'the global' and 'the planet' requires input from African and Asian language cultures.

Author Biography

Bo Stråth is professor emeritus. He was Professor of Nordic, European and World History at the Helsinki University (2007-2014), Professor of Contemporary History at the European University Institute, Florence (1997-2007), and Professor of History at the Gothenburg University (1991-1997). He is the author of The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals. Planetary Perspectives (Routledge, 2023), Europe's Utopias of Peace: 1815, 1919, 1951 (2015) and co-author of A Brief History of Political Economy (2016) and European Modernity: A Global Approach (2017).