ABSTRACT
The globalization of history and historicization of globalization are two unfinished intellectual projects. Indeed, they are barely under way. There are reasons why it has taken historians and others so long to recognize the need to globalize history and historicize globalization. These reasons have to do with the context in which professional historical scholarship developed. Yet, to the extent that historical scholarship makes claims to understand the world and its development through time, both projects are necessary and essential.
