Journal of Global History

2006 - 2024

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Volume 12, issue 3, 2017

Circulation: reflections on circularity, entity, and liquidity in the language of global history* pp. 303-318

Stefanie Gänger

When commerce, science, and leisure collaborated: the nineteenth-century global trade boom in natural history collections* pp. 319-339

Anne Coote, Alison Haynes, Jude Philp and Simon Ville

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* pp. 340-360

Theresa Wobbe and Léa Renard

World health by place: the politics of international health system metrics, 1924–c. 2010* pp. 361-385

Martin Gorsky and Christopher Sirrs

Buying for Britain, China, or India? Patriotic trade, ethnicity, and market in the 1930s British empire/Commonwealth* pp. 386-409

David Thackeray

Zones of reterritorialization: India’s free trade zones in comparative perspective, 1947 to the 1980s* pp. 410-432

Megan Maruschke

Ottoman Egypt and the emergence of the modern world, 1500–1800 By Nelly Hanna. Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2014. Pp. vii+185. Hardback £29.95, ISBN: 978-977-416-664-8 pp. 433-434

Jane Hathaway

Why did Europe conquer the world? By Philip T. Hoffman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 272. Hardback £25.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-13970-8; paperback £14.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-17584-3 pp. 434-436

Joseph McQuade

The global history of the Balfour Declaration: declared nation By Maryanne A. Rhett. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016. Pp. xiv + 168. Hardback £110.00, ISBN 978-1-138-11941-3 pp. 436-438

James L. Gelvin

Eco-cultural networks and the British empire: new views on environmental history Edited by James Beattie, Edward Melillo, and Emily O’Gorman. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Pp. xvi+323. Hardback £90.00, ISBN: 978-1-4411-0983-5; paperback £28.99, ISBN: 978-1-4742-9439-3 pp. 438-440

Lee Mahony

Volume 12, issue 2, 2017

The fascist new–old order pp. 166-183

Reto Hofmann

The imperial nexus: the Second World War and the Axis in global perspective* pp. 184-205

Daniel Hedinger

Colonial crossovers: Nazi Germany and its entanglements with other empires pp. 206-227

Patrick Bernhard

When economics, strategy, and racial ideology meet: inter-Axis connections in the wartime Indian Ocean* pp. 228-250

Rotem Kowner

Managing Muslims: imperial Japan, Islamic policy, and Axis connections during the Second World War* pp. 251-273

Kelly A. Hammond

When fascism met empire in Japanese-occupied Manchuria* pp. 274-296

Louise Young

The New Deal: a global history By Kiran Klaus Patel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 435. 9 b/w illustrations. Hardback £27.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-14912-7; paperback £22.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-17615-4 pp. 297-298

Peter Fearon

Hybrid knowledge in the early East India Company world By Anna Winterbottom. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xii + 324. 12 illustrations. Hardback £80.00, ISBN 978-1-137-38019-7 pp. 299-300

H. V. Bowen

The gunpowder age: China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history By Tonio Andrade. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. x+432. 25 b/w illustrations, 10 maps. Hardback £32.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-13597-7; paperback £19.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-17814-1 pp. 300-301

Daniel R. Headrick

Volume 12, issue 1, 2017

Imperial polities, intercolonialism, and the shaping of global governing norms: public health expert networks in Asia and the League of Nations Health Organization, 1908–37* pp. 4-25

Tomoko Akami

‘Born in the corridors of the OECD’: the forgotten origins of the Club of Rome, transnational networks, and the 1970s in global history* pp. 26-48

Matthias Schmelzer

How to win friends and influence nations: the international history of Development Volunteering* pp. 49-73

Agnieszka Sobocinska

Empires and protection: making interpolity law in the early modern world* pp. 74-92

Lauren Benton and Adam Clulow

Metropolitan locales, global commerce, and East Indies capital and credit in the eighteenth century pp. 93-114

Douglas Catterall

From global to local and back: the ‘Third World’ concept and the new radical left in France* pp. 115-136

Christoph Kalter

Gravity, compendia, and the always-postponed escape pp. 137-144

Pamela Crossley

Writing the global Indian Ocean pp. 145-154

Nigel Worden

Racisms: from the Crusades to the twentieth century By Francisco Bethencourt. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 444. Hardback £31.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15526-5; paperback £22.95, ISBN 978-0-691-16975-0 pp. 155-157

Benjamin Isaac

Bondage: labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries By Alessandro Stanziani. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. Pp. x + 258. Hardback £75.00, ISBN 978-1-78238-250-8; paperback £22.00, ISBN 978-1-78533-035-3 pp. 157-159

Tirthankar Roy

A history of modern tourism By Eric G. E. Zuelow. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xii + 290. Hardback £55.00, ISBN 978-0-2303-6964-1; paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-0-2303-6965-8 pp. 159-160

Erich deWald

Volume 11, issue 3, 2016

‘Born in America, in Europe bred, in Africa travell’d and in Asia wed’: Elihu Yale, material culture, and actor networks from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first* pp. 320-343

Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf

Chinese abolitionism: the Chinese Educational Mission in Connecticut, Cuba, and Peru* pp. 344-364

Steffen Rimner

Scholarly identities in war and peace: the Paris Peace Conference and the mobilization of intellect* pp. 365-386

Tomás Irish

Catholic nuns in transnational mission, 1528–2015* pp. 387-408

O’Brien, Anne

Circuits of wealth, circuits of sorrow: financing the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the age of suppression, 1850–66* pp. 409-429

John A. E. Harris

Centring the periphery: northern Morocco as a hub of transnational anti-colonial activism, 1930–43* pp. 430-450

David Stenner

Global fascism: geography, timing, support, and strategy pp. 451-472

Tim Jacoby

Migration studies: deep time and global approaches* pp. 473-480

Dirk Hoerder

What is global history? By Sebastian Conrad. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. viii + 299. Hardback £22.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15525-8 pp. 481-485

Merry Wiesner-Hanks

The Great War and the origins of humanitarianism, 1918–1924 By Bruno Cabanes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 390. Hardback £59.99, ISBN 978-1-107-02062-7; paperback £21.99, ISBN 978-1-107-60483-4 pp. 485-488

Michael Barnett

The guardians: the League of Nations and the crisis of empire By Susan Pedersen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 571. Hardback £22.99, ISBN 978-0-19-957048-5 pp. 488-490

Michael Riemens

Volume 11, issue 2, 2016

The ship, the media, and the world: conceptualizing connections in global history pp. 163-186

Roland Wenzlhuemer

Indefinite transits: mobility and confinement in the age of steam* pp. 187-208

G. Balachandran

Bodies at sea: travelling to Australia in the age of sail* pp. 209-228

Tamson Pietsch

‘This strange little floating world of ours’: shipboard periodicals and community-building in the ‘global’ nineteenth century pp. 229-250

Johanna de Schmidt

Anglo-worlds in transit: connections and frictions across the Pacific* pp. 251-270

Frances Steel

Writing the on-board: Meiji Japan in transit and transition* pp. 271-294

Martin Dusinberre

The Pacific and its place in global history - Pacific histories: ocean, land, people Edited by David Armitage and Alison Bashford. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xiv + 371. Hardback £65.00, ISBN 978–1–137–00165–8; paperback £19.99, ISBN 978–1–137–00163–4. - Navigating the Spanish lake: the Pacific in the Iberian world, 1521–1898 By Rainer F. Buschmann Edward R. SlackJr, and James B. Tueller. Perspectives on the global past. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 182. Hardback £43.50, ISBN 978–0–8248–3824–9. - Science, voyages, and encounters in Oceania, 1511–1850 By Bronwen Douglas. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xx + 361. Hardback £65.00, ISBN 978–1–137–30588–6. - The great ocean: Pacific worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush By David Igler. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 255. Hardback £20.99, ISBN 978–0–19–991495–1 pp. 295-302

Robert Hellyer

Paths toward the modern fiscal state: England, Japan, and China By Wenkai He. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 313. 1 b/w illustration, 7 graphs, 1 table. Hardback £42.95, ISBN 978-0-674-07278-7 pp. 303-305

Anne Booth

The last blank spaces: exploring Africa and Australia By Dane Kennedy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. 353. 15 b/w illustrations, 2 maps, 1 table. Hardback £25.00, ISBN 978-0-674-04847-8; paperback £16.95, ISBN 978-0-674-50386-1 pp. 305-307

John M. MacKenzie

The global transformation of time: 1870–1950 By Vanessa Ogle. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 288. Hardback £29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-28614-6 pp. 307-309

Tobias Becker

Review Article: The early modern foundations of the modern world: recent works on patterns of economic and political change – Erratum pp. 311-311

R. Bin Wong

Volume 11, issue 1, 2016

True rhubarb? Trading Eurasian botanical and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century* pp. 3-23

Matthew P. Romaniello

‘A young slip of botany’: botanical networks, the South Atlantic, and Britain’s maritime worlds, c.1790–1810* pp. 24-43

John McAleer

Agriculture, American expertise, and the quest for global data: Leon Estabrook and the First World Agricultural Census of 1930* pp. 44-65

Amalia Ribi Forclaz

Working together: new directions in global labour history* pp. 66-87

Leo Lucassen

Former Ottomans in the ranks: pro-Entente military recruitment among Syrians in the Americas, 1916–18* pp. 88-112

Stacy D. Fahrenthold

Counter-imperial orientalism: Friedrich Berber and the politics of international law in Germany and India, 1920s–1960s* pp. 113-134

Katharina Rietzler

The early modern foundations of the modern world: recent works on patterns of economic and political change - Global crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth centuryByGeoffrey Parker. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxii + 871. 28 colour illustrations, 55 figures. Hardback £29.99, ISBN978-0-300-15323-1; paperback £16.99, ISBN 978-0-300-20863-4. - Escaping poverty: the origins of modern economic growthByPeer Vries. Vienna: Vienna University Press, 2013. Pp. 516. Paperback €59.99, ISBN978-3-8471-0168-0. - Labour-intensive industrialization in global historyEdited byGareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. xiv + 310. 13 b/w illustrations. Hardback £95.00, ISBN978-0-415-45552-7; paperback £37.99, ISBN 978-1-13-890114-8. - China on the sea: how the maritime world shaped modern ChinaByZheng Yangwen. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. viii + 362. Hardback £135, ISBN978-90-04-19477-9. - Bâtisseurs d’empires: Russie, Chine et Inde à la croisée des mondes, XVe–XIXe siècleByAlessandro Stanziani. Paris: Éditions Raison d’Agir, 2012. Pp. 188. Paperback €20.00, ISBN978-2-912-10767-1. - The struggle for the Eurasian borderlands: from the rise of early modern empires to the end of the First World WarByAlfred J. Rieber. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 640. 12 maps. Hardback £64.99, ISBN978-1-107-04309-1; paperback £24.99, ISBN 978-1-107-61830-5 pp. 135-146

R. Bin Wong

Die Kinder des Prometheus: eine Geschichte der Menschheit vor der Erfindung der Schrift By Hermann Parzinger. Munich: Beck, 2014. Pp. 848. Hardback € 39.95, ISBN 978-3-406-66657-5 pp. 147-149

David A. Warburton

Inventing exoticism: geography, globalism, and Europe’s early modern world By Benjamin Schmidt. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. xx+412. Hardback £55.50, ISBN 978-0-8122-4646-9 pp. 149-151

Paul Stock

Eurafrica: the untold history of European integration and colonialism By Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Pp. xxii+316. Hardback £50.00, ISBN 978-1-7809-3000-8 pp. 151-153

Anne-Isabelle Richard