Journal of Global History

2006 - 2024

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Volume 4, issue 3, 2009

The mobility transition revisited, 1500–1900: what the case of Europe can offer to global history* pp. 347-377

Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen

Forest history and the Great Divergence: China, Japan, and the West compared pp. 379-404

Osamu Saito

State formation and urbanization trajectories: state finance in the Ottoman Empire before 1800, as seen from a Dutch perspective* pp. 405-428

Wantje Fritschy

Historical globalization and colonial legal culture: African assessors, customary law, and criminal justice in British Africa* pp. 429-451

Bonny Ibhawoh

Reflections on the transnational turn in United States history: theory and practice pp. 453-474

Ian Tyrrell

National aspirations on a global stage: concepts of world/global history in contemporary China* pp. 475-495

Nicola Spakowski

The darker nations: a people’s history of the Third World - By Vijay Prashad. New York: The New Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 364. Hardback £18.99, ISBN 978-1565847859; paperback £15.99, ISBN 978-1595583420 pp. 497-499

Adnan A. Husain

Empire, colony, genocide: conquest, occupation, and subaltern resistance in world history - By A. Dirk Moses. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. Pp. 504. Hardback £47.50, ISBN 978-1-84545-452-4 pp. 499-500

Bertrand Taithe

Global Indian diasporas: exploring trajectories of migration and theory - Edited by Gijsbert Oonk. Amsterdam: International Institute of Asian Studies/Amsterdam University Press, 2007. Pp. 294. Paperback £35.00, ISBN 978 90 5356 035 8. - Global South Asians: introducing the modern diaspora By Judith M. Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv +197. Hardback £45.00, ISBN 9780521844567; paperback £17.99, ISBN 9780521606301 pp. 500-502

James Chiriyankandath

Global migration and the world economy: two centuries of policy and performance - By Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. 488. Paperback £18.95, ISBN 978-0-262-58277-3 pp. 502-503

Ronaldo Munck

Small worlds: method, meaning, & narrative in microhistory - Edited by James F. Brooks, Christopher R.N. DeCorce, and John Walton. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008. Pp. 332. Paperback US$29.95, ISBN 978-1930618-94-7 pp. 503-504

Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau

Global lives: Britain and the world, 1550–1800 - By Miles Ogborn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 368. Hardback £45.00, ISBN 9780521845014; paperback £17.99, ISBN 9780521607186 pp. 504-506

Paul Ashmore

Women in the Portuguese colonial empire: the theatre of shadows - Edited by Clara Sarmento. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Pp. xxi + 304. Hardback £39.99, ISBN 978-1-84718-718-5 pp. 506-507

Cathryn Clayton

The environment and world history - Edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 361. Hardback £41.95/US$60.00, ISBN 9780520256873; paperback £16.95/US$24.95, ISBN 9780520256880 pp. 507-509

David Arnold

The ascent of money: a financial history of the world - By Niall Ferguson. London: Allen Lane, 2008. Pp. 442. Hardback £25.00, ISBN 9781486141065 pp. 509-510

Peter J. Cain

Empires of the Silk Road: a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present - By Christopher I. Beckwith. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. xxv + 472. Hardback £24.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13589-2 pp. 510-512

Nicola Di Cosmo

Power and plenty: trade, war, and the world economy in the second millennium - By Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xxvi + 619. Hardback £28.95, ISBN 978-0-691-11854-3; paperback £20.95, ISBN 978-0-691-14327-9 pp. 512-514

Erik Reinert

Volume 4, issue 2, 2009

A theory for formation of large empires* pp. 191-217

Peter Turchin

Dionysus and drama in the Buddhist art of Gandhara* pp. 219-244

Pia Brancaccio and Xinru Liu

The Eurasian silver century, 1276–1359: commensurability and multiplicity* pp. 245-269

Akinobu Kuroda

Desirable teeth: the medieval trade in Arctic and African ivory* pp. 271-292

Kirsten A. Seaver

Among the dissenters: reciprocal ethnography in nineteenth-century Inglistan* pp. 293-315

Nile Green

European colonial soldiers in the nineteenth century: their role in white global migration and patterns of colonial settlement* pp. 317-336

Ulbe Bosma

The discovery of mankind: Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus - By David Abulafia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xxx + 379. 32 illustrations. Hardback £25, ISBN 978-0-300-12582-5 pp. 337-338

Daniel A. Segal

Imperial formations - Edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Carole McGranahan and Peter C. Perdue. Advanced Seminar Series. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 429. Paperback US$29.95, ISBN 978-1-930618-73-2 pp. 338-339

Jeremy Adelman

Possessing the world: taking the measurements of colonisation from the 18th to the 20th century - By Bouda Etemad. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007. Pp. ix + 250. Hardback US$85, ISBN 978-1845453381 pp. 339-341

John Darwin

A global history of modern historiography - By Georg G. Iggers and Q. Edward Wang with the assistance of Supriya Mukherjee. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2008. Pp. xii + 436. Paperback £22.99, ISBN 978-0-582-09606-6 pp. 341-342

John Tosh

Salvation and globalization in the early Jesuit missions - By Luke Clossey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 327. Hardback £55, ISBN 9780521887441 pp. 342-344

Eugenio Menegon

Travellers and cosmographers: studies in the history of early modern travel and ethnology - Joan–Pau Rubiés. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xiv + 428. Hardback £75, ISBN: 978-0-7546-5936-5 pp. 344-345

Nabil Matar

Volume 4, issue 1, 2009

Interconnected synchronicities: the production of Bombay and Glasgow as modern global ports c.1850–1880 pp. 7-31

Sandip Hazareesingh

‘Rich flames and hired tears’: sugar, sub-imperial agents and the Cuban phoenix of empire pp. 33-56

Jonathan Curry-Machado

Bengali raw silk, the East India Company and the European global market, 1770–1833* pp. 57-79

Roberto Davini

‘Paying for the Emergency by displacing the settlers’: global coffee and rural restructuring in late colonial Kenya* pp. 81-103

David Hyde

The United Kingdom and the political economy of the global oils and fats business during the 1930s* pp. 105-125

Ayodeji Olukoju

The King's Christmas pudding: globalization, recipes, and the commodities of empire* pp. 127-155

O’Connor, Kaori

Ideas without borders pp. 157-161

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Reconsidering the macro-narrative in global history: John Darwin’s After Tamerlane and the case for comparison pp. 163-173

Michael Adas

Drawing the global colour line: white men’s countries and the international challenge of racial equality - By Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp x + 371. Hardback £45.00, ISBN 9780521881180; paperback £17.99, ISBN 9780521707527 pp. 175-177

Jonathan Hyslop

The devil’s handwriting: precoloniality and the German colonial state in Quindao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa - By George Steinmetz. Chicago studies in practices of meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xxviii + 640.78 b/w illustrations, 6 maps, 3 line drawings. Hardback US$90.00, ISBN 9780226772417; paperback US$33.00, ISBN 9780226772431 pp. 177-178

Gesine Krüger

Uncovering the history of Africans in Asia - Edited by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and Jean-Pierre Angenot. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. Pp. xi + 196. Paperback €69.00/US$103.00, ISBN 978–90-04–16291-4 pp. 179-180

Iain Walker

The communist experiment: revolution, socialism, and global conflict in the twentieth century - By Robert Strayer. Explorations in world history. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007. Pp. 216. Paperback £30.99, ISBN 9780072497441 pp. 180-182

Jean-Louis Margolin

Transnational nation: United States history in global perspective since 1789 - By Ian Tyrrell. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. vii + 286. Paperback £17.99, ISBN 978 1 4039 9368 7 pp. 182-184

Carl Guarneri

L’Esprit économique impérial (1830–-1970): groupes de pression & réseaux du patronat colonial en France & dans l’empire - Edited by Hubert Bonin, Catherine Hodeir, and Jean-François Klein. Paris: Publications de la Société Française d’Histoire d’Outre-Mer, 2008. Pp. 844. Paperback €70.00, ISBN 978–2-85970–037-9 pp. 184-185

Robert Aldrich

Britain, the empire, and the world at the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Edited by Jeffrey A. Auerbach and Peter H. Hoffenberg Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Pp xviii + 219. 14 b/w illustrations. Hardback £55.00, ISBN 978–0-7546–6241-9 pp. 185-186

Robert W. Rydell

The making of a tropical disease: a short history of malaria - By Randall M. Packard. The Johns Hopkins biographies of disease. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii + 296. 2 halftones, 19 line drawings. Hardback £16.50, ISBN 978–0-8018–8712-3 pp. 186-188

Marcia Wright

Vermeer’s hat: the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world - By Timothy Brook. New York: Bloomsbury Press, and London: Profile Books, 2008. Pp. xi + 272. Hardback US$26.95, ISBN 978–1-59691–444-5; or £18.99, ISBN 978–1-84668–112-7 pp. 188-189

Wills, Jr, John E.

Volume 3, issue 3, 2008

Imperial paths, big comparisons: the late Ottoman Empire* pp. 289-311

Cem Emrence

Power and markets in global finance: the gold standard, 1890–1926 pp. 313-335

G. Balachandran

The road to the Industrial Revolution: hypotheses and conjectures about the medieval origins of the ‘European Miracle’ pp. 337-359

Jan Luiten van Zanden

Knowledge and divergence from the perspective of early modern India* pp. 361-387

Tirthankar Roy

‘Profits sprout like tropical plants’: a fresh look at what went wrong with the Eurasian spice trade c. 1550–1800 pp. 389-418

Stefan Halikowski Smith

Was fashion a European invention?* pp. 419-443

Carlo Marco Belfanti

Seascapes and Mediterranean crossings* pp. 445-449

Henk Driessen

Aden, Geniza, and the Indian Ocean during the Middle Ages pp. 451-457

Sebouh Aslanian

Global histories of food pp. 459-462

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The world: a history By Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007. Pp. xlviii + 1056 + appendices (59 pp). Hardback $126.20, ISBN 978-0-13-113499-7 pp. 463-465

David Christian

Matters of exchange: commerce, medicine and science in the Dutch golden age By Harold J. Cook. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 576. 60 b/w illustrations. Paperback £14.99, ISBN: 9780300143218 pp. 465-467

Savithri Preetha Nair

Women and slavery, volume two: The modern Atlantic Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2008. Pp. xxviii + 329. Hardback £37.50, ISBN 978-0821417256; paperback £20.50, ISBN 978-0821417263 pp. 467-470

Walter Hawthorne

Decolonization and its impact: a comparative approach to the end of the colonial empires By Martin Shipway. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp xi + 269. Paperback £17.99, ISBN 9780631199687; hardback £55.00, ISBN 9780631199670 pp. 470-472

Robert McNamara

Domesticating the world: African consumerism and the genealogies of globalization By Jeremy Prestholdt. California World History Library 6. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xiv + 273. 15 b/w photographs. Hardback £35.00, ISBN 978-0-520-25424-4; paperback £14.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25423-7 pp. 472-473

Timothy Burke

Visible cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the coming of the Americans By Leonard Blussé. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xi +133. Hardback £16.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02614-8 pp. 473-474

Robert B. Marks

Fatal misconception: the struggle to control world populationMatthew Connelly. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv + 521. Hardback £22.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02423-6 pp. 475-476

Linda Gordon

From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the international history of the 1940s By David Reynolds. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 363. Hardback £36, ISBN 978-0-19-928411-5; paperback £15.99, ISBN 978-0-19-923761-6 pp. 476-478

Benedikt Stuchtey

The graves of Tarim: genealogy and mobility across the Indian Ocean By Engseng Ho. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. 379. 25 b/w photographs, 4 maps, 2 tables. Paperback 12.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24454-2 pp. 478-480

Ulrike Freitag

Historisk Tidskrift, 127, 4, 2007 ‘Historical Journal’, quarterly. Swedish Historical Society, Stockholm. ISSN0345-469X pp. 480-481

Lars Laamann

Volume 3, issue 2, 2008

Colonial officers and gentlemen: the British Empire and the globalization of ‘tradition’ pp. 135-161

Maria Misra

Music, Theosophical spirituality, and empire: the British modernist composers Cyril Scott and John Foulds* pp. 163-182

Bob van der Linden

Serfs, slaves, or wage earners? The legal status of labour in Russia from a comparative perspective, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century * pp. 183-202

Alessandro Stanziani

In the Russians’ steppes: the introduction of Russian wheat on the Great Plains of the United States of America* pp. 203-225

David Moon

Commoners in the process of Islamization: reassessing their role in the light of evidence from southeastern Tanzania* pp. 227-249

Felicitas Becker

Morphological shifts in Southeast Asian prostitution: the long twentieth century* pp. 251-273

Eric Tagliacozzo

Time, religion and history By William Gallois. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2007. Pp. x + 293. Paperback £16.99, ISBN 978 0582 78452 9 pp. 275-276

Penelope J. Corfield

Universal religions in world history: the spread of Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam to 1500 By Donald Johnson and Jean Elliot Johnson. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007. Pp. 240. Paperback £15.99, ISBN 9780072954289 pp. 276-277

Xinru Liu

Oceans in world history By Rainer F. Buschmann. Explorations in world history. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2006. Pp xv + 138. Paperback £15.99, ISBN 9780073019031 pp. 277-279

Pedro Machado

When Asia was the world: traveling merchants, scholars, warriors, and monks who created ‘The riches of the East’ By Stewart Gordon. Cambridge MA: Da Capo Press, 2007. Pp. 228. Illustrations, maps. Hardback US$26.00, ISBN 9780306815560 pp. 279-280

David Ludden

Trickster travels: in search of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds By Natalie Zemon Davis. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2006; London: Faber and Faber, 2007. Pp ix + 435. Hardback £20.00, ISBN 978-0-571-20256-0; paperback £10.99, ISBN 978-0571234790 pp. 280-282

Michael Brett

Adam Smith in Beijing: lineages of the twenty-first century By Giovanni Arrighi. London and New York, NY: Verso, 2007. pp. xiii + 418. Hardback US$35.00/£25.00, ISBN 978-1-84467-104-5 pp. 282-284

R. Bin Wong

Encyclopedia of emancipation and abolition in the transatlantic world Edited by Juniez Rodriguez. 3 volumes. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2007. Pp. 863. Hardback US$299.00, ISBN 978-0-7656-1257-1 pp. 284-286

Jelmer Vos

Power, faith, and fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present By Michael B. Oren. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. Pp. 608. Hardback US$35.00, ISBN 9780393058260 pp. 286-287

Charles Tripp

Beyond sovereignty: Britain, empire and transnationalism, c. 1880–1950 Edited by Kevin Grant, Philippa Levine, and Frank Trentmann. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. viii + 250. Hardback £53.00, ISBN 9781403986436 pp. 287-288

Susan Pedersen

Volume 3, issue 1, 2008

Making money at the blessed place of Manila: Armenians in the Madras–Manila trade in the eighteenth century* pp. 1-20

Bhaswati Bhattacharya

Nationalism, religion and community: A. B. Salem, the politics of identity and the disappearance of Cochin Jewry* pp. 21-42

James Chiriyankandath

Globalization effects: mobility and nation in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914* pp. 43-66

Sebastian Conrad

The contradictions of late nineteenth-century nationalist doctrines: three keys to the ‘globalism’ of José Martí’s nationalism* pp. 67-88

Armando García de la Torre

Contracting caravans: partnership and profit in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century trans-Saharan trade* pp. 89-113

Ghislaine Lydon

Reviews - In the beginning: world history from human evolution to the first statesLauren Ristvet. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007. Pp. 184 + 20. Paperback £15.99, ISBN 9780072848038 pp. 115-116

J. E. G. Sutton

Pathfinders: a global history of exploration By Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii + 428, 55 maps, 44 halftones, 16 colour plates. Hardback £25.00, ISBN 978-0-19-929590-6; paperback £12.99, ISBN 978-0-19-921933-9 pp. 116-119

Sebastian R. Prange

Connections across Eurasia: transportation, communication, and cultural exchange on the Silk Roads By Xinru Liu and Lynda Norene Shaffer. Explorations in world history. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007. Pp. 272. Paperback £24.99, ISBN 9780072843514 pp. 119-120

Craig Benjamin

The intra-Asian trade in Japanese copper by the Dutch East India Company during the eighteenth century By Ryuto Shimada. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. xvi + 225. Hardback €77, US$115, ISBN 978-90-04-15092-8 pp. 120-121

Conrad Totman

Weltgeschichte: Imperien, Religionen und Systeme, 15.–19. Jahrhundert By Hans-Heinrich Nolte. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2005. Pp. 392. Paperback €29.90, ISBN 978-3-205-77440-2 pp. 121-124

Andrea Komlosy

Dictating development: how Europe shaped the global periphery By Jonathan Krieckhaus. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. Pp. 264. Paperback US$27.95, ISBN 9780822959144 pp. 124-125

Bernard Waites

America in the world: United States history in global context By Carl Guarneri. Explorations in World History. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007. Pp. xvi + 320. Paperback £12.99; ISBN 978-007-254115-1 pp. 125-127

Thomas Bender

Portraits of hope: Armenians in the contemporary world By Huberta von Voss, ed., translated by Alasdair Lean, with a preface by Yehuda Bauer. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007 (first English edition). Pp. 400. Hardback £25.00, ISBN 9781845452575 pp. 127-128

Ina Baghdiantz McCabe

The shock of the old: technology and global history since 1900 By David Edgerton. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii + 270. Hardback US$26.00, ISBN 9780195322835 pp. 128-129

Paolo Malanima

Relocating modern science: circulation and the construction of knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900 By Kapil Raj. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiv + 285. Hardback £50, ISBN 9780230507081 pp. 129-131

Tirthankar Roy

Bound together: how traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors shaped globalization By Nayan Chanda. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 416. Hardback £17.99, ISBN 978-0-300-11201-6; paperback £12.99, ISBN 9780300136234 pp. 131-132

Hans-Heinrich Nolte

America magica: when Renaissance Europe thought it had conquered paradise By Jean-Marc de Beer and Jorge Magasich-Airola, translated by Monica Sandor, with a foreword by David Abulafia. Second edition. London: Anthem Press, 2007. Pp. 211, illustrated. Paperback £12.99 ISBN 978-1-84331-292-5 pp. 132-133

Patricia Seed