The European Network of International, Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) held the IV European Congress on World and Global History from 4 to 7 September 2014 in Paris on the theme "Contacts, Exchanges and Conflicts". The Association was founded in 2002 at the University of Leipzig as part of the processes of scientific and cross-cultural globalization for research aimed at overcoming Eurocentrism, theology and universalism in the study of history, introducing into the research field topics and regions that previously fell out of the orbit of the classical "world history". This corresponds to the current trend to study the intercontinental mutual influences and connections, cross-cultural communications that existed both within Europe and between Europe and non-European regions of the world from ancient times to the present day. The need to reorient historical research from traditional Eurocentric to" non-Eurocentric " concepts and the general spread of the subject of global history are related to the reaction of the academic environment and the international scientific community to the political, economic and social consequences of the development and deepening of global globalization processes at the end of the XX century. The subject of global history focuses on the study of a long-term retrospective of human development, primarily taking into account the interaction of data on Europe, Africa, China, India and Japan. It is based on the most relevant meta-narratives of world history, environmental, state, geopolitical, religious, cultural, gender, epidemiological and economic changes on the planet. The largest center of global history at the end of the XX century was England (London, Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick and other university centers), which sought to overcome the existing dichotomy in international historical science "the West and the Rest" ("The West and the rest of the World"). It was proposed to study the processes of globalization through the intercon ... Read more