Preface
Introduction
Further Reading
CHAPTER 1 WORLD HISTORY OVER TIME: THE EVOLUTION OF AN INTELLECTUAL AND PEDAGOGICAL MOVEMENT
Introduction
The Rise of World History Scholarship • Craig A. Lockard
World History • Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Toward World History: American Historians and the Coming of the World History Course • Gilbert Allardyce
Marshall G. S. Hodgson and the Hemispheric Interregional Approach to World History • Edmund Burke III
Further Reading
CHAPTER 2 DEFINING WORLD HISTORY: SOME KEY STATEMENTS
Introduction
Hemispheric Interregional History as an Approach to World History • Marshall G. S. Hodgson
The Rise of the West after Twenty-Five Years • William H. McNeill
Depth, Span, and Relevance • Philip D. Curtin
A Plea for World System History • Andre Gunder Frank
Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History • Jerry H. Bentley
World History and the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality • Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Further Reading
CHAPTER 3 REGIONS IN WORLD-HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Introduction
The Middle East and North Africa in World History • Julia A. Clancy-Smith
No Longer Odd Region Out: Repositioning Latin America in World History • Lauren Benton
Southeast Asia in World History • Craig A. Lockard
American History as if the World Mattered (and Vice Versa) • Carl Guarneri
Further Reading
CHAPTER 4 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL SPACE
Introduction
The Architecture of Continents: The Development of the Continental Scheme • Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen
Southernization • Lynda Shaffer
Oceans of World History: Delineating Aquacentric Notions in the Global Past • Rainer F. Buschmann
Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities • Alison Games
Further Reading
CHAPTER 5 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL TIME
Introduction
Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History • Jerry H. Bentley
When Does World History Begin? (And Why Should We Care?) • David Northrup
History and Science after the Chronometric Revolution • David Christian
Worlding History • Daniel A. Segal
Further Reading
CHAPTER 6 WORLD HISTORY AS COMPARISON
Introduction
Global and Comparative History • Michael Adas
Frameworks for Global Historical Analysis • Patrick Manning
How to Write the History of the World • Lauren Benton
What Is World History Good For? • Kenneth Pomeranz
Further Reading
CHAPTER 7 DEBATING THE QUESTION OF WESTERN POWER
Introduction
Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global Conjuncture • Kenneth Pomeranz
The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity • Joseph M. Bryant
Capitalist Origins, the Advent of Modernity, and Coherent Explanation: A Response to Joseph M. Bryant • Jack A. Goldstone
Comparison in Global History • Prasannan Parthasarathi
Further Reading
CHAPTER 8 WORLD HISTORY, BIG HISTORY, AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
Introduction
The Columbian Exchange • Alfred W. Crosby
Matter Matters: Towards a More “Substantial” Global History • Frank Uekotter
The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? • Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill
Big History: The Emergence of a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach • Fred Spier
Further Reading
CHAPTER 9 GLOBAL HISTORY AND GLOBALIZATION
Introduction
Global History: Approaches and New Directions • Maxine Berg
Comparing Global History to World History • Bruce Mazlish
Cycles of Silver: Globalization as Historical Process • Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giraldez
What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African Historian’s Perspective • Frederick Cooper
Further Reading
CHAPTER 10 CRITIQUES AND QUESTIONS
Introduction
Global History and Critiques of Western Perspectives • Dominic Sachsenmaier
Much Ado about Something: The New Malaise of World History • Vinay Lal
Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History • Jerry H. Bentley
Beyond Blacks, Bondage, and Blame: Why a Multicentric World History Needs Africa • Joseph C. Miller
Women’s and Men’s World History? Not Yet • Judith P. Zinsser
Histories for a Less National Age • Kenneth Pomeranz
Further Reading
Teaching World History, Further Reading
Credits
Index
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