Journal of Global History

2006 - 2024

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Volume 10, issue 3, 2015

The global history of Latin America* pp. 365-386

Matthew Brown

Indios on the move in the sixteenth-century Iberian world* pp. 387-409

Nancy E. van Deusen

Caribbean ginger and Atlantic trade, 1570–1648* pp. 410-430

Bethany Aram

Non-Western national music and empire in global history: interactions, uniformities, and comparisons* pp. 431-456

Bob van der Linden

Wakefield, Marx, and the world turned inside out pp. 457-478

Gabriel Piterberg and Lorenzo Veracini

‘Ireland’s sister nations’: internationalism and sectarianism in the Irish struggle for independence, 1916–22 pp. 479-501

M. C. Rast

NGOs: a new history of transnational civil society By Davies Thomas. London: Hurst and Company, 2013. Pp. ix+301. Paperback £22.00, ISBN 978-1-84904-310-6 pp. 502-503

John Gaventa

The problem of slavery as history: a global approach By Joseph C. Miller. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. xii+218. Paperback £25.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11315-0 pp. 503-504

John K. Thornton

Technology, skills and the pre-modern economy in the East and the West By Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden. Brill: Leiden, 2013. Pp. xviii+353. Hardback £121.00, ISBN 978-90-245350-8 pp. 504-506

Maxine Berg

The Cambridge history of capitalism Vol. 1: The rise of capitalism: from ancient origins to 1848; vol. 2: The spread of capitalism: from 1848 to the present Edited By Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xii+616; x+567. Hardback £150.00, ISBN 978-1-107-01963-8 and 978-1-107-01964-5 pp. 506-508

Maarten Prak

Transnational history By Pierre-Yves Saunier. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Pp. ix +193. Hardback £57.50, ISBN 978-0-230-27184-5; paperback £18.99, ISBN 978-0-230-27185-2 pp. 508-510

Kenneth Pomeranz

Volume 10, issue 2, 2015

Ben Franklin's ghost: world peace, American slavery, and the global politics of information before the Universal Postal Union* pp. 212-234

Peter A. Shulman

Global commerce in small boxes: parcel post, 1878–1913* pp. 235-258

Léonard Laborie

‘The telegraph and the bank’: on the interdependence of global communications and capitalism, 1866–1914* pp. 259-283

Simone M. Müller and Heidi J.S. Tworek

Buying time: futures trading and telegraphy in nineteenth-century global commodity markets* pp. 284-306

Alexander Engel

How to see the world economy: statistics, maps, and Schumpeter's camera in the first age of globalization* pp. 307-332

Quinn Slobodian

The Cold War battle over global news in East Africa: decolonization, the free flow of information, and the media business, 1960–1980* pp. 333-356

James R. Brennan

Climate change and the course of global history: a rough journey By John L. Brooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xxi+631. Hardback £65.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87164-8; paperback £22.99, ISBN 978-0-521-69218-2 pp. 357-358

David Christian

The sea and civilization: a maritime history of the world By Lincoln Paine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. Pp. xxxv+744. 72 illustrations, 17 maps. Hardback £30.00, ISBN 978-1-4000-4409-2 pp. 358-359

H. V. Bowen

Chinese money in global context: historic junctures between 600 BCE and 2012 By Niv Horesh. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii+364. 8 illustrations, 6 tables. Hardback £47.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-8719-2 pp. 359-361

Valerie Hansen

Bartolomeo Marchionni ‘homem de grossa fazenda’ (ca. 1450–1530): un mercante fiorentino a Lisbona e l'impero portoghese By Francesco Guidi Bruscoli. Florence: Casa editrice Leo S. Olschki, 2014. Pp. xxvi+274. Paperback €32.00, ISBN 978-88-222-6300-1 pp. 361-362

Anthony Molho

Brothers in arms, partners in trade: Dutch–indigenous alliances in the Atlantic world, 1595–1674 By Mark Meuwese. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xiii+367. 18 illustrations. Hardback £110.00, ISBN 978-90-04-21083-7 pp. 362-364

Jonathan Israel

Volume 10, issue 1, 2015

A world of copper: globalizing the Industrial Revolution, 1830–70* pp. 3-26

Chris Evans and Olivia Saunders

Late nineteenth-century globalization: London and Lomagundi perspectives on mining speculation in southern Africa, 1894–1904 pp. 27-52

Ian Phimister

Engineering inter-imperialism: American miners and the transformation of global mining, 1871–1910* pp. 53-76

Stephen Tuffnell

Mimesis and rivalry: European empires and global regimes* pp. 77-98

Jeremy Adelman

‘Inhabitants of the universe’: global families, kinship networks, and the formation of the early modern colonial state in Asia* pp. 99-121

David Veevers

Peripheral eyes: Brazilians and India, 1947–61* pp. 122-146

Ananya Chakravarti

Human Rights Day after the ‘breakthrough’: celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations in 1978 and 1988 pp. 147-170

Roland Burke

Maritime entrepreneurs and policy-makers: a historical approach to contemporary economic globalization pp. 171-193

Espen Ekberg, Even Lange and Andreas Nybø

Africa, empire and globalization: essays in honor of A. G. Hopkins Edited By Toyin Falola & Emily Brownell. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2011. Pp. xxiv+657. Hardback £56.50, ISBN 978-1-59460-915-2 pp. 194-195

Dane Kennedy

Trafficking in slavery's wake: law and the experience of women and children in Africa Edited By Benjamin N. Lawrance & Richard L. Roberts Athens, OH: Ohio University Press2012. Pp. 271. Paperback £21.99. ISBN 978-0-8214-2002-7 pp. 195-196

Emily S. Burrill

Guano and the opening of the Pacific world: a global ecological history By Gregory T. Cushman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xxii+392. 19 illustrations, 4 tables. Hardback £64.99, ISBN 978-1-107-00413-9; paperback £21.99, ISBN 978-1-107-65596-6 pp. 196-198

Alejandra Irigoin

The globalization of knowledge in history Edited By Jürgen Renn. Berlin: Max Planck Institute, 2012. Pp. x+ 854. Hardback €87.19/£54.74, ISBN 978-3-8442-2238-8 pp. 198-200

David A. Warburton

Farben der Globalisierung: die Entstehung moderner Märkte für Farbstoffe 1500–1900 (Colours of globalization: the genesis of modern markets for dyestuffs 1500–1900) By Alexander Engel. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2009. Pp. 386. Paperback €39.90, ISBN 978-3-593-38869-4 pp. 200-201

Ernst Homburg

Volume 9, issue 3, 2014

Continents and consequences: the history of a concept pp. 329-356

Peter J. Yearwood

‘But from this time forth history becomes a connected whole’: state expansion and the origins of universal history* pp. 357-378

Craig Benjamin

Nightsoil and the ‘Great Divergence’: human waste, the urban economy, and economic productivity, 1500–1900 pp. 379-402

Dean T. Ferguson

Escaping Malthus: a comparative look at Japan and the ‘Great Divergence’ pp. 403-424

Carmen Gruber

The world of the Sylheti seamen in the Age of Empire, from the late eighteenth century to 1947 pp. 425-446

Ashfaque Hossain

The Chinese International of Nationalities: the Chinese Communist Party, the Comintern, and the foundation of the Malayan National Communist Party, 1923–1939* pp. 447-470

Anna Belogurova

Britain, India, and the United Nations: colonialism and the development of international governance, 1945–1960* pp. 471-490

Daniel Gorman

Empires in world history: power and the politics of difference By Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 511. 39 illustrations, 39 maps. Hardback £39.95, ISBN 978-0-691-12708-8; paperback £17.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15236-3 pp. 491-492

Jon Wilson

The world that trade created: society, culture, and the world economy, 1400 to the present By Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik. Third edition. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2012. Pp. xiii + 329. Hardback £64.50, ISBN 978-0-7656-2354-6; paperback £21.50, ISBN 978-0-7656-2355-3 pp. 492-494

Kaoru Sugihara

Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700–1875 By Trevor R. Getz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. v + 106. Paperback £10.99, ISBN 978-0-19-976470-9 pp. 494-495

Rhonda M. Gonzales

Bonded labour and debt in the Indian Ocean world Edited By Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani. London: Pickering & Chatto Ltd., 2013. Pp. xiii + 240. Hardback £60.00, ISBN 978-1-84893-378-1 pp. 495-497

Viktor M. Stoll

Crossing the Bay of Bengal: the furies of nature and the fortunes of migrants By Sunil S. Amirth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. 268. 22 halftones, 3 maps. Hardback £22.95, ISBN 978-0-674-72483-9 pp. 497-499

Jos Gommans

Volume 9, issue 2, 2014

Editorial – border crossings: global dynamics of social policies and problems* pp. 177-188

Julia Moses and Martin J. Daunton

A ‘most imperial’ contribution: New Zealand and the old age pensions debate in Britain, 1898–1912* pp. 189-207

Edmund Rogers

The transfer of European social policy concepts to tropical Africa, 1900–50: the example of maternal and child welfare pp. 208-231

Ulrike Lindner

The economics of social reform across borders: Fukuda's welfare economic studies in international perspective* pp. 232-253

Tamotsu Nishizawa

‘The common aim of the Allied Powers’: social policy and international legitimacy in wartime China, 1940–47 pp. 254-275

Tehyun Ma

The monetization of global poverty: the concept of poverty in World Bank history, 1944–90* pp. 276-300

Rob Konkel

Bearing tales: networks and narratives in social policy transfer pp. 301-313

Daniel T. Rodgers

Strategies for writing global history - A world connecting, 1870–1945 Edited by Emily S. Rosenberg. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. History of the World series. Pp. 1168. 62 b/w illustrations, 16 maps, 16 tables. Hardback £29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-04721-1 pp. 314-321

John Breuilly

Universal empire: a comparative approach to imperial culture and representation in Eurasian history Edited by Peter Fibiger Bang and Dariusz Kołodziejczyk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii+378. 56 illustrations, 8 maps. Hardback £68.00, ISBN 978-1-107-02267-6 pp. 322-323

Dominic Lieven

Colonialism and beyond: race and migration from a postcolonial perspective Edited by Eva Bischoff and Elisabeth Engel. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2013. Periplus Studien 17. Pp. 128. Paperback €29.90, ISBN 978-3-643-90261-0 pp. 323-325

Parvathi Raman

Handbuch Geschichte der Sklaverei: eine Globalgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart By Michael Zeuske. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013. Pp. lx+725. €129.95/US$182.00, ISBN 978-3-11-027880-4 pp. 325-326

Juliane Schiel

The Amistad rebellion: an Atlantic odyssey of slavery and freedom By Marcus Rediker. New York: Viking, 2012. Pp. 280. Paperback £20.00, ISBN 978-0-670-02504-6 pp. 326-328

David Featherstone

Volume 9, issue 1, 2014

Machines, modernity, and sugar: the Greater Caribbean in a global context, 1812–50* pp. 1-25

José Guadalupe Ortega

Immigration restriction: rethinking period and place from settler colonies to postcolonial nations* pp. 26-48

Alison Bashford

The plantation paradigm: colonial agronomy, African farmers, and the global cocoa boom, 1870s–1940s* pp. 49-71

Corey Ross

The international congress as scientific and diplomatic technology: global intellectual exchange in the International Prison Congress, 1860–90* pp. 72-93

Nir Shafir

Modernization, dependency, and the global in Mexican critiques of anthropology pp. 94-121

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

De-coca-colonizing Egypt: globalization, decolonization, and the Egyptian boycott of Coca-Cola, 1966–68* pp. 122-142

Maurice M. Labelle

Historiography and narration in transnational history* pp. 143-161

Ann-Christina L. Knudsen and Karen Gram-Skjoldager

Modernism(s) and global modernity(ies): what can modern art offer to global history? - In pursuit of universalism: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese modern art By Alicia Volk. Berkeley, CA, and London: University of California Press, 2010 Pp. xiii+308. 112 illustrations, 16 in colour. Hardback £36.95, ISBN 970-0-52025952-2. - The triumph of modernism: India's artists and the avant-garde 1922–1947 By Partha Mitter. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. Pp. 271. 150 illustrations, 100 in colour. Paperback £22.50, ISBN 978-1-86189-318-5. - Modernism and the art of Muslim South Asia By Iftikar Dadi. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+312. 106 illustrations, 28 in colour. Hardback £37.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3358-2. - The art of modern China By Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen. Berkeley, CA, and London: University of California Press, 2012. Pp. xv+364. Hardback £55.00, ISBN 978-0-52023814-5; paperback £27.95, ISBN 978-0-52027106-7. - The revolutionary century: art in Asia, 1900–2000 By Alison Carroll. South Yarra, Victoria: Macmillan Australia, 2010. Pp. 207. 180 colour illustrations. Hardback £70.00, ISBN 978-192139417-1 pp. 162-167

Ralph Croizier

Learning to unlearn: decolonial reflections from Eurasia and the Americas By Madina Vladimirovna Tlostanova and Walter Mignolo. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2012. Pp. vii+283. Hardback US$59.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-1188-5 pp. 168-169

Yaseen Noorani

Racism in the modern world: historical perspectives on cultural transfer and adaptation Edited by Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011. Pp. 378. Hardback £75.00, ISBN 978-0-85745-076-0; paperback £22.00, ISBN978-1-78238-085-6 pp. 169-171

Debra Thompson

Between indigenous and settler governance Edited by Lisa Ford and Tim Rowse. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. Pp. 228. Hardback £75.00, ISBN 978-0-415-69970-9 pp. 171-174

Gabriel Piterberg

The family: a world history By Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. New Oxford World History. Pp. 160. 20 b/w illustrations, 3 maps, 1 chart. Hardback £47.99, ISBN 978-0-19-530476-3; paperback £12.99, ISBN 978-0-19-533814-0 pp. 174-175

Hong-Ming Liang