The GET Project presents the First Global Geo-History Textbook

The GET-It’s Global Education Time project offers history teachers and students aged 13-19 an innovative school textbook based on the Global History approach. Written and published as part of the Get Up and Goals! project, “A Global History of Humanity” has already been downloaded tens of thousands of times.

The book is available in 12 European languages and can be freely downloaded.

Why a Global History of Humanity?

To gain a deep understanding of the world we live in, with all its contradictions and complexities.
The ability to overcome limited and restrictive perspectives, essential for grasping and exploring the profound interconnectedness that characterizes (among other things) the current historical context, has proven to be one of the keys to the success of the three-volume textbook. Its overall goal is to spread a new narrative capable of moving beyond nationalism and Eurocentrism, while strengthening the construction of a cohesive and supportive Europe in relation to the rest of the world.

A Textbook That Explains the History of Inequalities, Migrations, and Climate Change?

The history that is taught in schools today is not neutral. In most textbooks, the idea of teaching aimed at forming “the national citizen” still prevails: an individual who knows the history of his homeland, but who does not have the tools to understand and take action on major global issues.

The approach of this global geo-history textbook is radically different, in its transversality, and is based on:

• A strong emphasis on interconnections: between local and global, between economic, political and cultural factors, between present, past and future;
• An anti-notionist choice: few names, few dates, but many explanations of relationships, processes and changes that from the global level have influenced local events.
• The great questions of the present as a guide to historical reading: in the three volumes that lead from 70,000 BCE to today, each chapter intends to answer three major recurring questions: what great dynamics have driven the evolution of inequalities, migrations, the relationship of humans with climatic-environmental changes?
• The presence of dozens of original geo-historical maps as a didactic tool capable of stimulating the relationship between the temporal and spatial dimensions, making geo-history a reciprocal enhancement between the two disciplines.

The textbook is available for free download in 12 languages, with the same content in terms of text, maps and layout. The textbook authors are Eric Vanhaute, Professor of Global History at Ghent University in Belgium, and Claudia Bernardi, Professor at Roma Tre University in Italy. They were supported by a dedicated teaching and graphics team. The Italian NGO CISP conceived and oversaw the entire project.