Preface Introduction Further Reading CHAPTER 1 WORLD HISTORY OVER TIME: THE EVOLUTION OF AN INTELLECTUAL AND PEDAGOGICAL MOVEMENT Introduction The Rise of World History Scholarship * Craig A. Lockard World History * Marnie Hughes-Warrington Toward World History: American Historians and the Coming of the World History Course * Gilbert Allardyce Marshall G. S. Hodgson and the Hemispheric Interregional Approach to World History * Edmund Burke III Further Reading CHAPTER 2 DEFINING WORLD HISTORY: SOME KEY STATEMENTS Introduction Hemispheric Interregional History as an Approach to World History * Marshall G. S. Hodgson The Rise of the West after Twenty-Five Years * William H. McNeill Depth, Span, and Relevance * Philip D. Curtin A Plea for World System History * Andre Gunder Frank Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History * Jerry H. Bentley World History and the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality * Merry Wiesner-Hanks Further Reading CHAPTER 3 REGIONS IN WORLD-HISTORICAL CONTEXT Introduction The Middle East and North Africa in World History * Julia A. Clancy-Smith No Longer Odd Region Out: Repositioning Latin America in World History * Lauren Benton Southeast Asia in World History * Craig A. Lockard American History as if the World Mattered (and Vice Versa) * Carl Guarneri Further Reading CHAPTER 4 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL SPACE Introduction The Architecture of Continents: The Development of the Continental Scheme * Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen Southernization * Lynda Shaffer Oceans of World History: Delineating Aquacentric Notions in the Global Past * Rainer F. Buschmann Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities * Alison Games Further Reading CHAPTER 5 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL TIME Introduction Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History * Jerry H. Bentley When Does World History Begin? (And Why Should We Care?) * David Northrup History and Science after the Chronometric Revolution * David Christian Worlding History * Daniel A. Segal Further Reading CHAPTER 6 WORLD HISTORY AS COMPARISON Introduction Global and Comparative History * Michael Adas Frameworks for Global Historical Analysis * Patrick Manning How to Write the History of the World * Lauren Benton What Is World History Good For? * Kenneth Pomeranz Further Reading CHAPTER 7 DEBATING THE QUESTION OF WESTERN POWER Introduction Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global Conjuncture * Kenneth Pomeranz The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity * Joseph M. Bryant Capitalist Origins, the Advent of Modernity, and Coherent Explanation: A Response to Joseph M. Bryant * Jack A. Goldstone Comparison in Global History * Prasannan Parthasarathi Further Reading CHAPTER 8 WORLD HISTORY, BIG HISTORY, AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT Introduction The Columbian Exchange * Alfred W. Crosby Matter Matters: Towards a More "Substantial" Global History * Frank Uekotter The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? * Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill Big History: The Emergence of a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach * Fred Spier Further Reading CHAPTER 9 GLOBAL HISTORY AND GLOBALIZATION Introduction Global History: Approaches and New Directions * Maxine Berg Comparing Global History to World History * Bruce Mazlish Cycles of Silver: Globalization as Historical Process * Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giraldez What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African Historian's Perspective * Frederick Cooper Further Reading CHAPTER 10 CRITIQUES AND QUESTIONS Introduction Global History and Critiques of Western Perspectives * Dominic Sachsenmaier Much Ado about Something: The New Malaise of World History * Vinay Lal Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History * Jerry H. Bentley Beyond Blacks, Bondage, and Blame: Why a Multicentric World History Needs Africa * Joseph C. Miller Women's and Men's World History? Not Yet * Judith P. Zinsser Histories for a Less National Age * Kenneth Pomeranz Further Reading Teaching World History, Further Reading Credits Index
