Journal of Global History

2006 - 2024

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Volume 8, issue 3, 2013

Networks and social cohesion in ancient Indian Ocean trade: geography, ethnicity, religion pp. 373-390

Eivind Heldaas Seland

The West, the East, and the insular middle: trading systems, demand, and labour in the integration of the Pacific, 1750–1875* pp. 391-413

Robert Hellyer

Shared infrastructures, informational asymmetries: Persians and Indians in Japan, c.1890–1930* pp. 414-435

Nile Green

Good women for empire: educating overseas female emigrants in imperial Japan, 1900–45* pp. 436-460

Sidney Xu Lu

Versatile and cheap: a global history of soy in the first half of the twentieth century* pp. 461-482

Ines Prodöhl

Negotiating the meaning of global heritage: ‘cultural landscapes’ in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, 1972–92* pp. 483-503

Aurélie Elisa Gfeller

The origins of political order: from pre-human times to the French Revolution By Francis Fukuyama. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Pp. 608. Hardback £25.00, ISBN 978-1-84668-256-8; paperback £12.99, ISBN 978-1-84668-257-5 pp. 504-505

Sami Zubaida

The Mongol conquests in world history By Timothy May. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. Pp. 320. Hardback £25.00, ISBN 978-1-86189-867-8 pp. 505-506

Rudi Paul Lindner

Religious internationals in the modern world: globalization and faith communities since 1750 Edited by Abigail Green and Vincent Viaene. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. xiv + 383. Hardback £65, ISBN 978-0-230-31950-9 pp. 506-508

Michael Laffan

The making of the middle class: toward a transnational history Edited by A. Ricardo Lopez and Barbara Weinstein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 446. Hardback £77.00, ISBN 978-0-8223-5117-7; paperback £18.99, ISBN 978-0-8223-5129-0 pp. 508-509

Markus Daechsel

Making a world after empire: the Bandung moment and its political afterlives Edited by Christopher J. Lee. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010. Pp. 400. Paperback £26.95/US$29.95, ISBN 978-0-89680-277-3 pp. 510-511

Gerard McCann

Transpacific revolutionaries: the Chinese Revolution in Latin America By Matthew D. Rothwell. New York and London: Routledge, 2013. Pp. xi + 131. Hardback £80.00, ISBN 978-0-415-65617-7; paperback £59.00, ISBN 978-1-243-70670-6 pp. 511-513

Paulo Drinot

Volume 8, issue 2, 2013

Unexceptional exceptionalism: the origins of American football in a transnational context pp. 209-230

Tony Collins

The global ring? Boxing, mobility, and transnational networks in the anglophone world, 1890–1914 pp. 231-255

Matthew Taylor

The republic of consumption at the Olympic Games: globalization, Americanization, and Californization* pp. 256-278

Mark Dyreson

Making football global? FIFA, Europe, and the non-European football world, 1912–74 pp. 279-298

Paul Dietschy

The sportification of judo: global convergence and evolution* pp. 299-317

Shohei Sato

Cricket and globalization: global processes and the imperial game pp. 318-341

Fahad Mustafa

Playing to the ‘imaginary grandstand’: sport, the ‘British world’, and an Australian colonial identity pp. 342-364

Jared van Duinen

Merchants of Canton and Macao: politics and strategies in eighteenth-century Chinese trade By Paul A. Van Dyke. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxii+545. Hardback US$ 80.00/ £55.00, ISBN 978-988-8028-91-7 pp. 365-366

George Bryan Souza

Religion and the making of modern East Asia By DuBois Thomas David. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xii+259. 27 b/w illustrations, 7 maps, 5 tables. Hardback £55.00, ISBN 978-1-107-00809-0; paperback £17.99, ISBN 978-1-107-40040-5 pp. 366-367

Vincent Goossaert

L'invenzione di un impero: politica e cultura nel mondo portoghese (1450–1600) By Marcocci Giuseppe. Roma: Carocci, 2011. Pp. 191. 8 illustrations. Paperback €16.00, ISBN 978-88-430-6003-0 pp. 368-369

Paolo Aranha

Consumption, trade and innovation: exploring the botanical remains from the Roman and Islamic ports at Quseir al-Qadim, EgyptMarijke van der Veen. Frankfurt-am-Main: Africa Magna Verlag, 2011. Pp. xiii+313. 104 b/w illustrations, 16 colour plates, 42 tables. Hardback €69.80, ISBN 978-3-937248-23-3 pp. 370-371

Elizabeth Lambourn

Transnational networks: German migrants in the British empire, 1670–1914 Edited By John R. Davis, Stefan Manz, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. viii + 187. Hardback £75.00, ISBN 978-90-04-22349-3 pp. 371-372

Andreas Fahrmeir

Volume 8, issue 1, 2013

Historical foundations for a global perspective on the emergence of a western European regime for the discovery, development, and diffusion of useful and reliable knowledge* pp. 1-24

Patrick O'Brien

Shifting trajectories of diamond processing: from India to Europe and back, from the fifteenth century to the twentieth* pp. 25-49

Karin Hofmeester

Converting souls across cultural borders: Dutch Calvinism and early modern missionary enterprises* pp. 50-71

Charles H. Parker

Microregionalism and intercolonial relations: the case of the Danish West Indies, 1730–1830* pp. 72-94

Jeppe Mulich

Simple pleasures: food consumption in Japan and the global comparison of living standards pp. 95-116

Penelope Francks

Useful knowledge, ‘industrial enlightenment’, and the place of India* pp. 117-141

Maxine Berg

‘Bonded by reverence toward the Buddha’: Asian decolonization, Japanese Americans, and the making of the Buddhist world, 1947–1965* pp. 142-164

Michael K. Masatsugu

The 1973 Chilean coup and the origins of transnational human rights activism* pp. 165-186

Patrick William Kelly

Le débat: histoire, politique, société, 154, March–April 2009, special issue: Ecrire l'histoire du monde (Writing world history)Histoire globale: un autre regard sur le monde (Global history: another view of the world) Edited by Laurent Testot. Paris: Sciences Humaines Editions, 2008. Pp. 264. Paperback €25.40, ISBN 978-2-912601-71-1. - Géohistoire de la mondialisation: le temps long du monde (The geo-history of globalization) By Christian Grataloup. Paris: Armand Colin, 2010. Pp. 288. Paperback €29.40, ISBN 978-2-2002-4450-7 pp. 187-190

Jean-Louis Margolin

From the ruins of empire: the revolt against the West and the remaking of Asia By Pankaj Mishra. London: Allen Lane, 2012. Pp. 368. Hardback £20.00, ISBN 978-1-8461-4478-3; paperback £11.99, ISBN 978-0-2419-5466-9 pp. 191-192

Cemil Aydin

Shattering empires: the clash and collapse of the Ottoman and Russian empires, 1908–1918 By Michael Reynolds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv+303. 25 b/w illustrations, 5 maps. Hardback £61.00, ISBN 978-0-521-19553-9; paperback £20.99, ISBN 978-0-521-14916-7 pp. 192-194

Virginia H. Aksan

Empire and globalisation: networks of people, goods and capital in the British world, c. 1850–1914 By Gary B. Magee and Andrew S. Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xxi + 291. 13 tables. Hardback £53.00, ISBN 978-0-521-89889-8; paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-0-521-72758-7 pp. 194-195

Lindie Koorts

The inner life of empires: an eighteenth-century history By Emma Rothschild. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xi+483. Hardback US$35.00/£24.95, ISBN 978-0-691-14895-3; paperback US$: 22.95/ £15.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15612-5 pp. 195-197

Avril A. Powell

Die missionarische Gesellschaft: Mikrostrukturen einer kolonialen Globalisierung By Helge Wendt. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. Pp. 321. €52.00/£48.65, ISBN 978-3-515-09864-9 pp. 197-198

Ulrike Strasser

Volume 7, issue 3, 2012

Restoring Miranda: gender and the limits of European patriarchy in the early modern Atlantic world* pp. 342-363

Susan D. Amussen and Allyson M. Poska

Manilamen and seafaring: engaging the maritime world beyond the Spanish realm* pp. 364-388

Filomeno V. Aguilar

The friendly planet: ‘Oddfellows’, networks, and the ‘British World’ c.1840–1914* pp. 389-414

Arthur Downing

Between global aspirations and local realities: the global dimensions of interwar communism* pp. 415-437

Joachim C. Häberlen

‘Segregation has fallen on evil days’: Smuts' South Africa, global war, and transnational politics, 1939–46 pp. 438-460

Jonathan Hyslop

Taming the states: the American Law Institute and the ‘Statement of essential human rights’* pp. 461-482

Hanne Hagtvedt Vik

Re-reading W. E. B. Du Bois: the global dimensions of the US civil rights struggle* pp. 483-505

Eve Darian-Smith

Resurrecting Che: radicalism, the transnational imagination, and the politics of heroes pp. 506-526

Jeremy Prestholdt

Scarcity and frontiers: how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation, By Edward B. Barbier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii+748. Hardback £65.00, ISBN978-0-521-70165-5 pp. 527-528

Jonathan Curry-Machado

The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East, By Timur Kuran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+405. Hardback £19.95/US$29.95, ISBN978-0-691-14756-7; paperback £16.95/US$24.95, ISBN978-0-691-15641-5 pp. 528-530

Ghislaine Lydon

The Muslim empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, By Stephen F. Dale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+347. 22 b/w illustrations, 18 maps. Hardback £55.00, ISBN978-0-521-87095-5; paperback £19.99, ISBN978-0-521-69142-0 pp. 530-531

Peter Fibiger Bang

L'histoire à parts égales: récits d'une rencontre Orient–Occident (XVIe–XVIIe siècle), By Romain Bertrand. Paris: Seuil, 2011. Pp. 664. Paperback €28.00/£21.05, ISBN978-2-02-105017-2 pp. 531-532

Vincent Houben

Shaping a global women's agenda: women's NGOs and global governance, 1925–1985, By Karen Garner. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. Pp. 310. 11 b/w illustrations. Hardback £65.00, ISBN978-0-7190-8143-9 pp. 532-534

Bonnie G. Smith

A social history of knowledge, volume II: from the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia, By Peter Burke. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. Pp. vii+359. Hardback £55.00, ISBN978-0-745-65042-5; paperback £17.99, ISBN978-0-745-65043-2 pp. 534-535

Steve Fuller

Black flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism. Counter-power volume 1, By Michael Schmidt and Lucien Van der Walt. Edinburgh and Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2009. Pp. 500. Paperback £18.00/US$22.50, ISBN 978-1-9048-5916-1. - Anarchism and syndicalism in the colonial and postcolonial world, 1870–1940: the praxis of national liberation, internationalism, and social revolution, By Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt. Amsterdam: Brill Press, 2010. Pp. lxxiv+434. Hardback €109/US$155, ISBN 978-9004188495 pp. 535-538

Dave Featherstone

Volume 7, issue 2, 2012

‘This age is the age of associations’: committees, petitions, and the roots of interwar Middle Eastern internationalism* pp. 166-188

Andrew Arsan

Between the crisis of democracy and world parliament: the development of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in the 1920s* pp. 189-209

Martin Albers

The League of Nations: a retreat from international law?* pp. 210-232

Stephen Wertheim

Competition and complementarity: civil society networks and the question of decentralizing the League of Nations* pp. 233-256

Anne-Isabelle Richard

Bringing Asia to the world: Indian trade unionism and the long road towards the Asiatic Labour Congress, 1919–37* pp. 257-278

Carolien Stolte

‘Our common humanity’: print, power, and the colonial press in interwar Tanganyika and French Cameroun pp. 279-301

Emma Hunter

Rotary International's ‘acid test’: multi-ethnic associational life in 1930s Southeast Asia* pp. 302-324

Su Lin Lewis

Reviews - A global history of history, By Daniel Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxvii+568. Hardback £60.00, ISBN978-0-521-87575-2; paperback £22.99, ISBN978-0-521-69908-2 pp. 325-326

Q. Edward Wang

The politics of anti-Westernism in Asia: visions of world order in pan-Islamic and pan-Asian thought, By Cemil Aydin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. xi+299. Hardback £27.50/US$40.00, ISBN 978-0-231-13778-2 pp. 326-328

Michael Farquhar

Die Souveränität der Schwachen: Lateinamerika und der Völkerbund, 1920–1936, By Thomas Fischer. Beiträge zur Europäischen Überseegeschichte 98. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. Pp 459. 39 b/w illustrations, 2 tables. Paperback €68.00, ISBN 978-3-515-10077-9 pp. 328-329

Uta Raina

Central Asia in world history, By Peter B. Golden. The New Oxford World History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. x+178. 25 b/w illustrations. Hardback £45.00, ISBN978-0-19-515-947-9; paperback £12.99, ISBN978-0-19-533-819-5 pp. 329-331

Jagjeet Lally

Debt: the first 5000 years By David Graeber. New York: Melville House, 2011. Pp. 544. Hardback £21.99/US$32.00, ISBN 978-1-933633-86-2 pp. 331-332

Suresh Naidu

From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: the global trade networks of Armenian merchants from New Julfa, By Sebouh David Aslanian. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. vi+363. 16 illustrations, 4 maps, 2 tables. Hardback £34.95/US$49.95, ISBN 978-0-520-26687-2 pp. 332-334

Sossie Kasbarian

The great American mission: modernization and the construction of an American world order, By David Ekbladh. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+386. 17 b/w illustrations. Paperback £16.95/US$24.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15245-5 pp. 334-335

Emily S. Rosenberg

The big ditch: how America took, built, ran, and ultimately gave away the Panama Canal, By Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xv+420. 1 halftone, 30 line illustrations, 48 tables, 6 maps. Hardback £24.95/US$35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-14736-3 pp. 336-337

Walter LaFeber

Colonial project, national game: a history of baseball in Taiwan, By Andrew D. Morris. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. xi+271. 14 photographs. Hardback £34.95/US$49.95, ISBN 978-0-520-26279-9 pp. 337-339

Jennifer Liu

After the event: the transmission of grievous loss in Germany, Taiwan, and China, By Stephan Feuchtwang. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. Pp. vi+240p. Hardback £55.00/US$95.00, ISBN 978-0-85745-086-9 pp. 339-340

Frank Biess

Volume 7, issue 1, 2012

Financing a new nation: a comparative study of the financial roots of the USA and Gran Colombia* pp. 3-26

John Muse-Fisher

Another America: Russian mental discoveries of the North-west Pacific region in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries* pp. 27-51

Martina Winkler

‘Destiny seems to point me to that country’: early nineteenth-century African American migration, emigration, and expansion* pp. 53-77

Bronwen Everill

Globalizing St George: English associations in the Anglo-world to the 1930s* pp. 79-105

Tanja Bueltmann and Donald M. MacRaild

An unlevel playing field: national income estimates and reciprocal comparison in global economic history pp. 107-128

Morten Jerven

Strange parallels: Southeast Asia in global context, c. 800–1830. Volume 2: mainland mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the islands pp. 129-142

Alan Strathern

Why the West rules – for now: the patterns of history and what they reveal about the future pp. 143-147

Peer Vries

Global perspectives on global history: theories and approaches in a connected world - By Sachsenmaier Dominic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. vii + 332. Hardback £55.00, ISBN 978-1-107-00182-4; paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-0-521-17312-4 pp. 149-150

Georg G. Iggers

The brokered world: go-betweens and global intelligence, 1770–1820 - Edited by Schaffer Simon, Roberts Lissa, Raj Kapil, and Delbourgo James. Uppsala Studies in History of Science 35. Sagamore Beach, MA: Watson Publishing International, 2009. Pp. xxxviii + 560. B/w illustrations. Hardback US$69.96, ISBN 978-0-88135-374-7 pp. 150-152

Alida C. Metcalf

Weltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts - By Nolte Hans-Heinrich. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2009. Pp. 445. Hardback €29.90, ISBN 978-3-205-78402-9 pp. 152-153

Matthias Middell

The world in world wars: experiences, perceptions and perspectives from Africa and Asia - Edited by Liebau Heike, Bromber Katrin, Lange Katharina, Hamzah Dyala, and Ahuja Ravi. Studies in Global History 5. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2010. Pp. vii + 613. €129.00, ISBN 978-90-04-18545-6 pp. 153-155

David Motadel