Journal of Global History

2006 - 2024

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Volume 6, issue 3, 2011

Crossing borders in transnational gender history* pp. 357-379

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Mega-structures of the Middle Ages: the construction of religious buildings in Europe and Asia, c.1000–1500* pp. 381-406

Maarten Prak

Global goods and local usages: the small world of the Indian sewing machine, 1875–1952* pp. 407-429

David Arnold

Globalizing the 1926 International Sanitary Convention* pp. 431-455

Anne Sealey

The Cold War as a historical period: an interpretive essay* pp. 457-480

Prasenjit Duara

The village as Cold War site: experts, development, and the history of rural reconstruction* pp. 481-504

Nicole Sackley

Socialist high modernity and global stagnation: a shared history of Brazil and the Soviet Union during the Cold War* pp. 505-528

Tobias Rupprecht

A history of the world in 100 objects pp. 529-533

Elizabeth Lambourn

Big history and the future of humanity - By Fred Spier. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xv + 272. Hardback £75.00, ISBN 978-1-4443-3421-0 pp. 535-536

David Christian

Soundings in Atlantic history: latent structures and intellectual currents, 1500–1830 - Edited by Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 622. 30 halftones, 9 maps, 5 graphs, 5 tables. Hardback £46.95/US$59.95, ISBN 978-0-6740-3276-7; paperback £22.95/US$29.95, ISBN 978-0-6740-6177-4 pp. 537-538

Erik R. Seeman

Cosmopolitan thought zones: South Asia and the global circulation of ideas - Edited by Sugata Bose and Kris Manjapra. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xi + 307. Hardback £55.00/US$85.00, ISBN 978-0-230-24337-8 pp. 538-539

Vinayak Chaturvedi

Comparative and transnational history: central European approaches and new perspectives - Edited by Heinz-Gerhard Haupt and Jürgen Kocka. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2010. Pp vii + 294. Hardback £55.00/US$95.00, ISBN 978-1-84545-615-3 pp. 539-541

Dominic Sachsenmaier

Feminism and empire: women activists in imperial Britain, 1790–1865 - By Clare Midgley. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. x + 206. Hardback £70.00, ISBN 978-0-415-25014-6; paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-0-415-25015-3 pp. 541-542

Susan Thorne

Reforming the world: the creation of America’s moral empire - By Ian Tyrrell. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. 336. 15 halftones. Hardback £24.95/US$35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-14521-1 pp. 542-544

Daniel Sargent

Mosquito empires: ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 - By J. R. McNeill. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xviii + 371. 12 maps. Hardback £55, ISBN 978-0-521-45286-1; paperback £16.99, ISBN 978-0-521-45910-5 pp. 544-545

Urmi Engineer

The devil’s milk: a social history of rubber - By John Tully. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2011. Pp. 416. 27 photographs. Hardback US$87.00, ISBN 978-1-58367-232-7; paperback £17.95/US$24.95, ISBN 978-1-58367-231-0 pp. 545-546

Stephen L. Harp

Volume 6, issue 2, 2011

Markets in pre-industrial societies: storage in Hellenistic Babylonia in the medieval English mirror* pp. 169-193

Bas van Leeuwen, Péter Földvári and Reinhard Pirngruber

The hybrid military establishment of the East India Company in South Asia: 1750–1849* pp. 195-218

Kaushik Roy

Transnational intellectual cooperation, the League of Nations, and the problem of order* pp. 223-247

Daniel Laqua

Development advisors in a time of cold war and decolonization: the United Nations Technical Assistance Administration, 1950–59* pp. 249-272

David Webster

Algeria, France, Mexico, UNESCO: a transnational history of anti-racism and decolonization, 1932–1962* pp. 273-297

Todd Shepard

From mobility transition to comparative global migration history* pp. 299-307

Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen

Different transitions: comparing China and Europe, 1600–1900 pp. 309-319

Adam McKeown

From regional to global repertoires of migration pp. 321-325

Leslie Page Moch

Quantifying mobility in early modern Europe: the challenge of concepts and data pp. 327-338

Josef Ehmer

Some considerations about the link between economic development and migration pp. 339-344

Jelle van Lottum

Ottomans in early modern global history pp. 345-349

Sam White

No enchanted palace: the end of empire and the ideological origins of the United Nations - By Mark Mazower. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. vii + 236. Hardback £16.95/US$24.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13521-2 pp. 351-352

Neil Smith

Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights - By Roland Burke. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 234 pp. Hardback £36.00/US$55.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4219-5. - The last utopia: human rights in history By Samuel Moyn. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. 336 pp. Hardback £20.95/US$27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-04872-0 pp. 352-353

Ryan Irwin

Volume 6, issue 1, 2011

The use of global abstractions: national income accounting in the period of imperial decline pp. 7-28

Daniel Speich

Prebisch and Myrdal: development economics in the core and on the periphery pp. 29-52

Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano and Örjan Appelqvist

The World Bank and the politics of productivity: the debate on economic growth, poverty, and living standards in the 1950s* pp. 53-74

Michele Alacevich

Neo-Malthusianism and development: shifting interpretations of a contested paradigm* pp. 75-97

Marc Frey

Coping with hunger? Visions of a global food system, 1930–1960 pp. 99-119

Ruth Jachertz and Alexander Nützenadel

Towards global equilibrium: American foundations and Indian modernization, 1950s to 1970s* pp. 121-142

Corinna R. Unger

The anti-politics of inequality: reflections on a special issue pp. 143-151

David C. Engerman

The Wilsonian moment: self-determination and the international origins of anticolonial nationalism - By Erez Manela. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 352. Hardback £44.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-517615-5; paperback £12.99, ISBN: 978-0-19-537853-5 pp. 153-155

Vijay Prashad

The Palgrave dictionary of transnational history: from the mid–19th century to the present day - Edited by Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xli + 1226. Hardback £160, ISBN: 978-1-403-99295-6 pp. 155-156

Michael Farquhar

The bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it - By Paul Collier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 224. Paperback £9.99, ISBN: 978-0-19-537338-7 pp. 156-158

Erik Reinert

Many Middle Passages: forced migration and the making of the modern world - Edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Oybus, and Marcus Rediker. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 263. Hardback £44.95, ISBN: 978-0-520-25206-6; paperback £14.95, ISBN: 978-0-520-25207-3 pp. 158-160

Andreas Eckert

Resisting bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia - Edited by Edward A. Alpers, Gwyn Campbell, and Michael Salman. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp 116. Hardback £95, ISBN: 978-0-415-77151-1 pp. 160-162

Kerry Ward

World history, the big eras: a compact history of humankind for teachers and students - By Edmund BurkeIII, David Christian, and Ross E. Dunn. Los Angeles, CA: National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA, 2009. Pp. i + 91. Paperback US$15.00, ISBN: 978-0-9633218-7-9 pp. 162-164

Heather Streets-Salter

The end of empires: African Americans and India - By Gerald Horne. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2008. Pp. 274. 7 b/w illustrations. Hardback £37.00, ISBN: 978-1-59213-899-9; paperback £17.99, ISBN: 978-1-59213-900-2 pp. 164-165

Kris Manjapra

Volume 5, issue 3, 2010

‘Even in the remotest corners of the world’: globalized piracy and international law, 1500–1900* pp. 353-372

Michael Kempe

New and old peripheries: Britain, the Baltic, and the Americas in the Great Divergence* pp. 373-394

Klas Rönnbäck

Creating a local black identity in a global context: the French writer Alexandre Dumas as an African American lieu de mémoire pp. 395-422

Eric Martone

A British sea: making sense of global space in the late nineteenth century* pp. 423-446

Tamson Pietsch

Raising revenue in the British empire, 1870–1940: how ‘extractive’ were colonial taxes?* pp. 447-477

Ewout Frankema

Mobilizing labour in African agriculture: the role of the International Colonial Institute in the elaboration of a standard of colonial administration, 1895–1930* pp. 479-501

Benoit Daviron

A conjuncture in global history or an Anglo-American construct: the British Industrial Revolution, 1700–1850 pp. 503-509

O’Brien, Patrick

Rome and China: comparative perspectives on ancient world empires - Edited by Walter Scheidel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 240. 8 b/w illustrations. Hardback £45.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-533690-0 pp. 511-513

L. de Ligt

The world from 1450 to 1700 - By John E. WillsJr.. The New Oxford World History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 176. 25 b/w illustrations. Hardback £45.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-516517-3; paperback £12.99, ISBN: 978-0-19-533797-6 pp. 513-514

Nelly Hanna

The age of revolutions in global context, c. 1760–1840 - Edited by David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xi + 301. Hardback £50.00, ISBN: 978-0-230-58046-6; paperback £16.99, ISBN: 978-0-230-58047-3 pp. 514-515

Jack Goldstone

Creating the ‘New Man’: from Enlightenment ideals to socialist realities - By Yinghong Cheng. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009. Pp. x + 265. Hardback £53.50, ISBN: 978-0-8248-3074-8 pp. 516-517

Jeremy Friedman

Cold War kitchen: Americanization, technology, and European users - Edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2009. Pp. viii + 415. Hardback £24.95, ISBN: 978-0-262-15119-1 pp. 517-519

Emanuela Scarpellini

Workers of the world: essays toward a global labor history - By Marcel van der Linden. Studies in Global Social History, 1. Leiden and Boston, MA: E. J. Brill, 2008. Pp. xiii + 469. Hardback £116.10/US$192.00, ISBN: 978-90-04-16683-7 pp. 519-520

Donald Quataert

Globalisierung und Globalgeschichte - Edited by Margarete Grandner, Dietmar Rothermund, and Wolfgang Schwentker. Series Globalgeschichte und Entwicklungspolitik, volume 1. Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2005. Pp. 220. Hardback €15.80, ISBN: 978-3-85476-175-4 pp. 520-522

Katja Naumann

Globalization in world history - By Peter N. Stearns. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. Pp. viii + 168. Hardback £70.00, ISBN: 978-0-415-77917-3; paperback £18.99, ISBN: 978-0-415-77918-0; eBook £18.99, ISBN: 978-0-203-86606-1 pp. 522-523

David Christian

Volume 5, issue 2, 2010

Across Zomia with merchants, monks, and musk: process geographies, trade networks, and the Inner-East–Southeast Asian borderlands* pp. 215-239

C. Patterson Giersch

Mining, history, and the anti-state Wa: the politics of autonomy between Burma and China pp. 241-264

Magnus Fiskesjö

Borderlands and border narratives: a longitudinal study of challenges and opportunities for local traders shaped by the Sino-Vietnamese border* pp. 265-287

Sarah Turner

Are the Central Himalayas in Zomia? Some scholarly and political considerations across time and space* pp. 289-312

Sara Shneiderman

Zomian or zombies? What future exists for the peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif?* pp. 313-332

Bernard Formoso

A zone of refuge in Southeast Asia? Reconceptualizing interior spaces pp. 333-346

Victor Lieberman

Russia against Napoleon: the battle for Europe, 1807–1814 - By Dominic Lieven. London: Allen Lane, 2009. Pp. xxxv + 618. Hardback £30.00, ISBN: 978-0-713-99637-1 pp. 347-348

Peter Waldron

The empire project: the rise and fall of the British world system, 1830–1970 - By John Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp xiii + 800. Hardback £25.00, ISBN: 978-0-521-30208-1 pp. 348-349

Dominic Lieven

What is global history? - By Pamela Kyle Crossley. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. Pp. 152. Hardback £45.00, ISBN: 978-0-745-63300-8; paperback £13.99, ISBN: 978-0-745-63301-5 pp. 349-351

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Die Kontingenz der Moderne: Wege in Europa, Asien und Amerika - By Wolfgang Knöbl. Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag, 2007. Pp. 361. Paperback €29.90, ISBN: 978-3-593-38477-1 pp. 351-352

Hans-Heinrich Nolte

Volume 5, issue 1, 2010

Asian knowledge and the development of calico printing in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries* pp. 1-28

Giorgio Riello

Why England and not China and India? Water systems and the history of the Industrial Revolution* pp. 29-50

Terje Tvedt

Empire and locality: a global dimension to the 1857 Indian Uprising* pp. 51-73

Marina Carter and Crispin Bates

Oil in the age of steam* pp. 75-94

Nuno Madureira

Chinese emigration in global context, 1850–1940* pp. 95-124

Adam McKeown

The global social insurance movement since the 1880s* pp. 125-148

Aiqun Hu and Patrick Manning

Global history and the spatial turn: from the impact of area studies to the study of critical junctures of globalization pp. 149-170

Matthias Middell and Katja Naumann

Synthetic and temperate rubber in the interwar years and during the Second World War pp. 171-176

William G. Clarence-Smith

Die Karolinger und die Abbasiden von Bagdad: Legitimationsstrategien frühmittelalterlicher Herrscherdynastien im transkulturellen Vergleich - By Wolfram Drews. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2009. Pp. 502. Hardback ₠59.80, ISBN 978-3-05-004560-3 pp. 177-178

Konrad Hirschler

Institutions and the path to the modern economy: lessons from medieval trade - By Avner Greif. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix + 503. Hardback £53.00, ISBN: 978-0-521-48044-2 paperback £20.99, ISBN: 978-0-521-67134-7 pp. 178-180

Debin Ma

On the wings of time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru - By Sabine MacCormack. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xix + 320. 50 illustrations. Hardback £34.95/US$50.00, ISBN 978-0-691-12674-6; paperback £16.95/US$24.95, ISBN 978–0-691–14905-7 pp. 180-181

Linda Newson

Famine: a short history - By Cormac Ó Gráda. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 327. 18 b/w illustrations, 11 tables. Hardback £19.95/US$27.95, ISBN 978-0-691-12237-3 pp. 182-183

Eric Vanhaute