Interview with Serge Gruzinski on "L'histoire, pour quoi faire?"

Readers following recent historiographical debates about global history may be following not only scholars like Sebastian Conrad (whom we interviewed on his recent intervention this winter) but also the French historian Serge Gruzinski, who has written widely on the opportunities and pitfalls of a global history approach. Most recently, Gruzinski has authored a new book on the subject, L'histoire, pour quoi faire? (Paris: Fayard, 2015).

One hopes that a translation of the book into English is forthcoming, but in the meantime, Sébastien Rozeaux, a post-doctoral fellow at the EHESS, has conducted an interview with Professor Gruzinski on the book for Books and Ideas. Check it out here!