Journal of Global History

2006 - 2024

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Volume 2, issue 3, 2007

The birth-pangs of Portuguese Asia: revisiting the fateful ‘long decade’ 1498–1509* pp. 261-280

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

The varieties of Sioux Christianity, 1860–1980, in international perspective pp. 281-302

David Lindenfeld

Buddhism in the re-ordering of an early modern world: Chinese missions to Cochinchina in the seventeenth century pp. 303-324

Charles Wheeler

Indian Nationalism and the ‘world forces’: transnational and diasporic dimensions of the Indian freedom movement on the eve of the First World War pp. 325-344

Harald Fischer-Tiné

The dematerialization of telecommunication: communication centres and peripheries in Europe and the world, 1850–1920 pp. 345-372

Roland Wenzlhuemer

The two prime movers of globalization: history and impact of diesel engines and gas turbines pp. 373-394

Vaclav Smil

Comparing British and American empires pp. 395-404

A. G. Hopkins

Western imperialism in the Middle East 1914–1958 By D. K. Fieldhouse, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, New York: 2006. Pp xviii + 376, 6 maps. ISBN-10: 0-19-928737-6. £65 (hb) pp. 405-406

Paul Ashmore

From silver to cocaine: Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500–2000 By Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, eds., Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 384. 22 illustrations. ISBN 0-8223-3753-3, 0-8223-3766-5 (pb) pp. 406-407

Jeremy Adelman

The ambiguities of history: the problem of ethnocentrism in historical writing By Finn Fuglestad, Oslo: Oslo Academic Press, 2005. Pp. 151. ISBN 82-7477-204-0 pp. 407-409

David M. Fahey

Empire to nation. Historical perspectives on the making of the modern world By Joseph Esherick, Hasan Kayali and Eric van Young, eds., London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Pp. viii + 430, ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4030-9. US$76.50 (cloth) pp. 409-410

Dominic Lieven

Revoltas Escravas: Mistificações e Mal-Entendidos By João Pedro Marques. Lisboa: Guerra e Paz, 2006. Pp. 130. €16 ISBN-989-8014-19-9 pp. 410-411

Jelmer Vos

Ancient imperial heritage and Islamic universal historiography: al-Dīnawarī’s secular perspective pp. 413-413

Hayrettin Yücesoy

Volume 2, issue 2, 2007

Ancient imperial heritage and Islamic universal historiography: al-Dīnawarī’s secular perspective pp. 135-155

Hayrettin Yücesoy

The peoples of the north in the eyes of the Muslims of Umayyad al-Andalus (711–1031) pp. 157-174

Amira K. Bennison

Literacy and the ‘great divide’ in the Islamic world, 1300–1800 pp. 175-193

Nelly Hanna

The expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain in 1609–1614: the destruction of an Islamic periphery pp. 195-212

Már Jónsson

The Ferghana Valley at the crossroads of world history: the rise of Khoqand, 1709–1822 pp. 213-232

Scott C. Levi

The bounds of identity: the Goldsmid mission and the delineation of the Perso–Afghan border in the nineteenth century pp. 233-254

B. D. Hopkins

Islam and the moral economy: the challenge of capitalism By Charles Tripp, Cambridge University Press, 2006. x + 201 pp. Bibl to p. 224. Index to p. 229. £16.99. ISBN 10-521-68244-4 pp. 255-256

Clement M. Henry

Global history: interactions between the universal and the local By A. G. Hopkins, ed., Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. Pp. xi + 303. Pbk. £18.99. ISBN 1-4039-8793-9 pp. 256-258

Charles Bright

The Empire strikes back? The impact of imperialism on Britain from the mid-nineteenth century By Andrew Thompson. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2005. Pp. xviii + 374. £21.99. ISBN 0-582-43829-2 pp. 258-259

Preben Kaarsholm

Atlas of slavery By James Walvin. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2006. Pp. xiv + 146. £19.99. ISBN-10 0 582 43780 6, ISBN-13 978 0 582 43770 7 pp. 259-260

Jelmer Vos

Volume 2, issue 1, 2007

Warhorse and post-nomadic empire in Asia, c. 1000–1800 pp. 1-21

Jos Gommans

A case of empire envy? German Jesuits meet an Asian mystic in Spanish America pp. 23-40

Ulrike Strasser

Indian Ocean Studies and the ‘new thalassology’ pp. 41-62

Markus P. M. Vink

Africa and the globalization process: western Africa, 1450–1850 pp. 63-86

Joseph E. Inikori

India in the early modern world economy: modes of production, reproduction and exchange pp. 87-111

David Washbrook

The human past: world prehistory and the development of human societies By Chris Scarre, ed., Thames & Hudson, London and New York, 2005. 784 pp, 753 ills. (211 colour); ISBN: 978-0-500-28531-2/4. £29.95 pb pp. 113-118

John E. G. Sutton

The Atlantic in global history, 1500–2000 By Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Erik R. Seeman, eds., Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Pp. 258. ISBN-13: 978-0-13-192714-8, US$30.80 pp. 119-120

Pieter Emmer

War and state formation in ancient China and early modern Europe By Victoria Tin-bor Hui, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 308. ISBN-13: 9780521525763, ISBN-10: 0521525764, £16.77 pp. 120-121

Peter C. Perdue

The royal hunt in Eurasian history By Thomas Allsen, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0-8122-3926-3 US$55/£36 pp. 122-123

Michael Hope

Fascism past and present, West and East. An international debate on concepts and cases in the comparative study of the extreme right By Roger Griffin, Werner Loh, and Andreas Umland, eds., with an afterword by Walter Laqueur, Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2006, ISBN-10: 3898216748. €34.90 pp. 123-124

Robert O. Paxton

Rethinking economic change in India - labour and livelihood By Tirthankar Roy, London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xii + 202. ISBN 0-415-34989-3. £70 pp. 125-127

Vanita Sharma

A concise history of the world since 1945: states and peoples By W. M. Spellman, Basingstoke, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xii + 344. ISBN 1-4039-1787-6 pp. 127-128

Michael Geyer

The Mongols and the West, 1221–1410 By Peter Jackson. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2005. Pp xxxiv + 414. ISBN 0 582 36896 0. £17.99 pp. 128-129

R. I. Moore

The new global history By Bruce Mazlish, New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. vii + 131. ISBN 978-0-415-40921-6; $30.95 (paper) pp. 128-129

Jerry H. Bentley

Volume 1, issue 3, 2006

To inherit the Earth. Imagining world population, from the yellow peril to the population bomb pp. 299-319

Matthew Connelly

The global system of international migrations, 1900 and 2000: a comparative approach pp. 321-341

Giovanni Gozzini

The world voyage of James Keir Hardie: Indian nationalism, Zulu insurgency and the British labour diaspora 1907–1908 pp. 343-362

Jonathan Hyslop

The illusions of encounter: Muslim ‘minds’ and Hindu revolutionaries in First World War Germany and after pp. 363-382

Kris K. Manjapra

Social capital, ‘trust’ and the role of networks in Julfan trade: informal and semi-formal institutions at work pp. 383-402

Sebouh Aslanian

Africa and globalization: colonialism, decolonization and the postcolonial malaise pp. 403-408

Ralph A. Austen

Diaspora entrepreneurial networks: four centuries of history By Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, eds., Oxford and New York: Berg, 2005. Pp. xxii + 440. ISBN 1-85973-880-x; $84.95 (hb), ISBN 1-85973-875-3 pp. 409-410

Robin Cohen

The global Cold War: third world interventions and the making of our times By Odd Arne Westad, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 498. ISBN 1-3 9780521853644 pp. 410-412

Emily S. Rosenberg

Needles, herbs, gods and ghosts: China, healing and the West to 1848 By Linda L. Barnes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 458 + xiii. ISBN 0-674-01872-9; $49.95/£31.95/E46.10 pp. 412-413

Fa-ti Fan

The company of strangers: a natural history of economic life By Paul Seabright. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 320. $18.95/£12.50. ISBN 0-691-12452-3 pp. 413-414

Geerat J. Vermeij

Volume 1, issue 2, 2006

Globalizing the Harlem Renaissance: Irish, Mexican, and ‘Negro’ renaissances in The Survey, 1919–1929 pp. 155-175

Bob Johnson

Global rust belt: Hemileia vastatrix and the ecological integration of world coffee production since 1850 pp. 177-195

Stuart McCook

Disease, diplomacy and international commerce: the origins of international sanitary regulation in the nineteenth century pp. 197-217

Mark Harrison

‘Trust in God, but tie your camel first.’ The economic organization of the trans-Saharan slave trade between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries pp. 219-239

Sebastian Prange

The Spanish Empire and its legacy: fiscal redistribution and political conflict in colonial and post-colonial Spanish America pp. 241-267

Regina Grafe and Alejandra Irigoin

Britain, industry and perceptions of China: Matthew Boulton, ‘useful knowledge’ and the Macartney Embassy to China 1792–94 pp. 269-288

Maxine Berg

Living standards in the past: new perspectives on well-being in Asia and Europe By Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii + 472. ISBN 0-19-928068-1 pp. 289-292

Anne Booth

Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867–1914 and their Lasting Impact By Vaclav Smil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vi + 350. ISBN 0 19 516874 7 pp. 293-294

Daniel Headrick

Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalising World System By Berthold Unfried and Marcel van der Linden, eds., with the help of Christine Schindler. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2004. Pp. 253. (ITH-Tagungsberichte 38). ISBN 3-931982-36-X pp. 294-295

Eckhardt Fuchs

The Birth of the Modern World, 1780–1914: Global Connections and Comparisons By C. A. Bayly. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 540. ISBN 978 0 631 18799 8 pp. 295-297

Mamie Hughes-Warrington

Globalization: A Short History By Jürgen Osterhammel and Neils P. Petersson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 182. £14.95. ISBN 0 691 12165 6 pp. 297-298

David Christian

Volume 1, issue 1, 2006

Historiographical traditions and modern imperatives for the restoration of global history pp. 3-39

O’Brien, Patrick

Merchants, migrants, missionaries, and globalization in the early-modern Pacific pp. 41-58

Luke Clossey

River control and the evolution of knowledge: a comparison between regions in China and Europe, c. 1400–1850 pp. 59-79

Karel Davids

The rapid growth of Egypt’s agricultural output, 1890–1914, as an early example of the green revolutions of modern South Asia: some implications for the writing of global history pp. 81-99

Roger Owen

Energy crisis and growth 1650–1850: the European deviation in a comparative perspective pp. 101-121

Paolo Malanima

The worldwide economic impact of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1815 pp. 123-149

O’Rourke, Kevin H

The Global History Reader By Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x + 302 pp. 151-152

A.G. Hopkins

REVIEWS The Global History Reader By Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x + 302 pp. 151-152

A.G. Hopkins

Britannia’s Empire: Making a British World By Bill Nasson, Stroud, UK: Tempus, 2004. ISBN: 0 7524 2958 2. £20 (hardback) pp. 152-152

Nicholas J. White

REVIEWS Britannia’s Empire: Making a British World By Bill Nasson, Stroud, UK: Tempus, 2004. ISBN: 0 7524 2958 2. £20 (hardback) pp. 152-152

Nicholas J. White

Palgrave Advances in World Histories By Marnie Hughes-Warrington, ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 286. ISBN 1-4039-1278-5 pp. 153-153

Arturo Giráldez

REVIEWS Palgrave Advances in World Histories By Marnie Hughes-Warrington, ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 286. ISBN 1-4039-1278-5 pp. 153-153

Arturo Giráldez