Journal of Global History

2006 - 2024

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Volume 14, issue 3, 2019

Long-term and decentred trajectories of doing history from a global perspective: institutionalization, postcolonial critique, and empiricist approaches, before and after the 1970s pp. 335-354

Katja Naumann

What makes globalization really new? Sociological views on our current globalization pp. 355-373

Romain Lecler

The global/local tension in the history of anthropology pp. 375-394

Gustavo Lins Ribeiro

The global process of thinking global literature: from Marx’s Weltliteratur to Sarkozy’s littérature-monde pp. 395-412

Jernej Habjan

Art history and the global: deconstructing the latest canonical narrative pp. 413-435

Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

Historicizing media, globalizing media research: infrastructures, publics, and everyday life pp. 437-453

Ralph Schroeder

Roundtable Review Discussion pp. 455-456

Simon Jackson

Empires, guns, and economic growth: thoughts on the implications of Satia’s work for economic history pp. 456-458

Judy Stephenson

Consuming empires in the eighteenth century pp. 459-460

Kate Smith

An Africanist’s perspective on Priya Satia’s Empire of guns pp. 461-462

Giacomo Macola

Locating Britain’s ‘empire’ in Satia’s Empire of guns pp. 463-465

Devyani Gupta

Author response pp. 465-469

Priya Satia

The making of an Indian Ocean world economy, 1250–1650, by Ravi Palat. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xii + 305. Hardback £79.99, ISBN: 978-1-137-54219-9 pp. 471-473

Simon Layton

Vivekananda, Sarah Farmer, and global spiritual transformations in the fin de siècle – CORRIGENDUM pp. 475-475

Ruth Harris

Volume 14, issue 2, 2019

Editing the first Journal of World History: global history from inside the kitchen pp. 157-178

Gabriela Goldin Marcovich and Rahul Markovits

Vivekananda, Sarah Farmer, and global spiritual transformations in the fin de siècle pp. 179-198

Ruth Harris

The making of a Pastorian empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics in French colonialism and international science, 1890–1940 pp. 199-217

Aro Velmet

Imperial cooperative experiments and global market capitalism, c.1900–c.1960 pp. 219-237

Nikolay Kamenov

‘Treated like Chinamen’: United States immigration restriction and white British subjects pp. 239-260

Anne Rees

Whither growth? International development, social indicators, and the politics of measurement, 1920s–1970s pp. 261-279

Stephen Macekura

The Lumumba University in Moscow: higher education for a Soviet–Third World alliance, 1960–91 pp. 281-300

Constantin Katsakioris

The ‘emancipation of media’: Latin American advocacy for a New International Information Order in the 1970s pp. 301-320

Vanessa Freije

The institution of international order: from the League of Nations to the United Nations, edited by Simon Jackson and Alanna O’Malley. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.Pp. xvi + 247. Hardback £115.00, ISBN: 978-1-138-09150-4 pp. 321-322

M. Patrick Cottrell

The global revolution: a history of international communism 1917–1991, by Silvio Pons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, Pp. xx + 365. Hardback £30.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-965762-9 pp. 323-324

Christopher Read

Volume 14, issue 1, 2019

Diet and the comparison of living standards across the Great Divergence: Japanese food history in an English mirror pp. 3-21

Penelope Francks

Many roads from pasture to plate: a commodity chain approach to China’s beef trade, 1732–1931 pp. 22-43

Thomas David DuBois

International trade in wheat and other cereals and the collapse of the first wave of globalization, 1900–38 pp. 44-67

Gema Aparicio and Vicente Pinilla

Dragomans, tattooists, artisans: Palestinian Christians and their encounters with Catholic Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries pp. 68-86

Jacob Norris

Before UNEP: who was in charge of the global environment? The struggle for institutional responsibility 1968–72 pp. 87-106

Iris Borowy

The origins of informality: the ILO at the limit of the concept of unemployment pp. 107-125

Aaron Benanav

The future of the Western world: the OECD and the Interfutures project pp. 126-144

Jenny Andersson

Commodity history and the nature of global connection: recent developments - Guano and the opening of the Pacific world: a global ecological history, by Gregory T. Cushman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Studies in Environment and History. Pp. xx+392. 19 illustrations, 4 tables. Hardback £70.00, ISBN: 978-1-107-00413-9; paperback £25.99, ISBN: 978-1-107-65596-6. - Andean cocaine: the making of a global drug, by Paul Gootenberg. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Pp. xvii+441. 4 illustrations, 12 tables, 2 maps. Paperback £32.50, ISBN: 978-0-8078-5905-6. - The matter of history: how things create the past, by Timothy J. LeCain. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Studies in Environment and History. Pp. xix+346. 15 illustrations. Hardback £80.00, ISBN: 978-1-107-13417-1; paperback £22.99, ISBN: 978-1-107-59270-4. - Banana cultures: agriculture, consumption, and environmental change in Honduras and the United States, by John Soluri. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+321. 25 figures, 2 maps, 2 tables. Paperback $18.99, ISBN: 978-0-292-71256-0. - The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins, by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 331. 29 b/w illustrations. Paperback £14.99, ISBN: 978-0-691-17832-5 pp. 145-150

Joshua Specht

Thinking history globally, by Diego Olstein. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xvi+223. 7 figures, 24 tables. Hardback £79.99, ISBN: 978-0-230-36102-7; paperback £20.00, ISBN: 978-1-137-47338-7 pp. 151-152

Lester P. Lee

Colonial captivity during the First World War: internment and the fall of the German empire, 1914–1919, by Mahon Murphy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii+245. 2 maps. Hardback £75.00, ISBN: 978-1-108-41807-2 pp. 152-154

Bohdan S. Kordan

Managing the world: the United Nations, decolonization, and the strange triumph of state sovereignty in the 1950s and 1960s – ERRATUM pp. 155-155

Eva-Maria Muschik

Volume 13, issue 3, 2018

On the economic importance of the slave plantation complex to the British economy during the eighteenth century: a value-added approach pp. 309-327

Klas Rönnbäck

Trade and overcoming land constraints in British industrialization: an empirical assessment pp. 328-351

Dimitrios Theodoridis, Paul Warde and Astrid Kander

Edwin Seligman, initiator of global progressive public finance pp. 352-373

Madeline Woker

The transformation of the global palm oil cluster: dynamics of cluster competition between Africa and Southeast Asia (c.1900–1970) pp. 374-398

Valeria Giacomin

Fisheries’ collapse and the making of a global event, 1950s–1970s pp. 399-424

Gregory Ferguson-Cradler

Writing Spanish history in the global age: connections and entanglements in the nineteenth century pp. 425-445

Jorge Luengo and Pol Dalmau

Global perspectives on Welsh Patagonia: the complexities of being both colonizer and colonized pp. 446-468

Lucy Taylor

Transnational development training and Native American ‘laboratories’ in the early Cold War pp. 469-490

Jacob Tropp

American empire: a global history By A. G. Hopkins, Princeton, NJ, and Oxford:Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 980. Hardback £30.00, ISBN: 978-0-691-17705-2 pp. 491-494

Michael A. Verney

The prospect of global history Edited by James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, and Chris Wickham. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv + 222. Hardback £36.99, ISBN: 978-0-19-873225-9 pp. 494-496

Jeremy Adelman

Global trade in the nineteenth century: the house of Houqua and the Canton system ByJohn D. Wong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 247. Hardback £67.99, ISBN: 978-1-107-15066-9; paperback £24.99, ISBN: 978-1-316-60501-1 pp. 496-497

Gang Zhao

Origin story: a big history of everything By David Christian New York:Little, Brown and Company, 2018. Pp. x + 368. Hardback $30.00, ISBN: 978-0-316-39200-6 pp. 497-499

Roger L. Albin

Volume 13, issue 2, 2018

In the shadow of empire: Josef Schmidlin and Protestant–Catholic ecumenism before the Second World War pp. 165-187

Albert Wu

‘A Christian solution to international tension’: Nikolai Berdyaev, the American YMCA, and Russian Orthodox influence on Western Christian anti-communism, c.1905–60 pp. 188-208

Christopher Stroop

The ecumenical origins of pan-Africanism: Africa and the ‘Southern Negro’ in the International Missionary Council’s global vision of Christian indigenization in the 1920s pp. 209-229

Elisabeth Engel

From Christian anti-imperialism to postcolonial Christianity: M. M. Thomas and the ecumenical theology of communism in the 1940s and 1950s pp. 230-251

Justin Reynolds

From religious freedom to social justice: the human rights engagement of the ecumenical movement from the 1940s to the 1970s pp. 252-273

Bastiaan Bouwman

Between context and conflict: the ‘boom’ of Latin American Protestantism in the ecumenical movement (1955–75) pp. 274-293

Annegreth Schilling

The guardians: the League of Nations and the crisis of empire By Susan Pedersen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 571. Hardback £25.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-957048-5; paperback £14.99, ISBN: 978-0-19-874349-1 pp. 294-295

David MacKenzie

Oceanic histories Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 328. 1 figure, 11 maps. Hardback £76.99, ISBN: 978-1-108-42318-2; paperback £19.99, ISBN: 978-1-108-43482-9 pp. 296-299

David Abulafia

A history of global consumption, 1500–1800 By Ina Baghdiantz McCabe. New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. x + 301. 7 illustrations. Hardback £105.00, ISBN: 978-0-415-50791-2; paperback £26.99, ISBN: 978-0-415-50792-9 pp. 299-301

Rachel Steely

Sugar and the making of international trade law By Michael Fakhri. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law. Pp. xvii+250. Hardback £67.00, ISBN: 978-1-107-04052-6; paperback £22.99, ISBN: 978-1-316-63347-2 pp. 301-303

April Merleaux

Investing in the early modern built environment: Europeans, Asians, settlers and indigenous societies Edited by Carol Shammas. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxvi+404. Hardback €150.00, ISBN: 978-90-04-23119-1 pp. 303-305

Nelida Fuccaro

Volume 13, issue 1, 2018

Discussion: the futures of global history pp. 1-21

Richard Drayton and David Motadel

Readable flowers: global circulation and translation of collected saints’ lives* pp. 22-45

Jonathan E. Greenwood

The elk, the ass, the tapir, their hooves, and the falling sickness: a story of substitution and animal medical substances* pp. 46-68

Irina Podgorny

The world’s fairs as spaces of global knowledge: Latin American archaeology and anthropology in the age of exhibitions pp. 69-93

Sven Schuster

Between art and information: communicating world health, 1948–70* pp. 94-120

Alexander Medcalf

Managing the world: the United Nations, decolonization, and the strange triumph of state sovereignty in the 1950s and 1960s* pp. 121-144

Eva-Maria Muschik

Unconnected arches pp. 145-149

Haydon Cherry

The crisis of global modernity: Asian traditions and a sustainable future By Prasenjit Duara. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 328. Hardback £57.00, ISBN: 978-1-107-08225-0; paperback £22.99, ISBN: 978-1-107-44285-6 pp. 150-151

George Lawson

The intimacies of four continents By Lisa Lowe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. 319. Hardback US$94.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-5863-3; paperback US$26.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-5875-6 pp. 151-153

Kenneth Morgan

The global transformation of time, 1870–1950 By Vanessa Ogle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 279. Hardback £32.95, ISBN: 978-0-674-28614-6 pp. 153-155

Johnny Fulfer

The category of ‘family workers’ in International Labour Organization statistics (1930s–1980s): a contribution to the study of globalized gendered boundaries between household and market – Erratum pp. 156-156

Theresa Wobbe and Léa Renard